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Giorgos Kallis

January 01, 1970

Giorgos Kallis (born 8 September 1972) is an ecological economist from Greece. He is an ICREA Research Professor at ICTA[1] - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he teaches political ecology. He is one of the principal advocates of the theory of degrowth.[2]

Giorgos Kallis
Born (1972-09-08) September 8, 1972 (age 51)
Athens, Greece
NationalityGreek
Academic career
InstitutionAutonomous University of Barcelona
Alma materImperial College London

Early life and education edit

Kallis was born and raised in Athens, son of medical doctors Vassilis and Maria Kallis. His mother was a political activist, imprisoned during Greece's Military Junta, later a founding member of the Greek Green Party, president of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, and a candidate in Greek and European parliament elections.[3]

Kallis earned a Bachelors in Chemistry with First Class Honours from Imperial College in London, where he continued to complete a master's degree in Environmental Engineering. After a period at the European Parliament working at the Science and Technological Options Assessment Unit for the preparation of the EU Water Framework Directive, he completed a PhD at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of the Aegean in 2003.[4] From 2005 to 2008 he was a Marie Curie post doc fellow at the Energy and Resources Group[5] at UC Berkeley. He has also a Masters in Economics (2012) from the Barcelona Graduate School in Economics.

Career edit

Kallis became an ICREA Researcher in 2008 and since 2011 is a tenured ICREA Professor. In 2015-16 he was a Leverhulme visiting professor at the Department of Development Studies of SOAS at the University of London.

His early work during his PhD and post-doc years focused on the political ecology of water, and the ways social and power struggles shape water development and urbanization. He has published research on EU water policy and regulation,[6] the history of water in Athens,[7] conflicts in California's Bay-Delta,[8] and climate change and water security.[9]

While a post-doc at Berkeley, he worked with economist Richard Norgaard, developing the theory of coevolution. Coevolution refers to change through mutual feedbacks and selection between social, environmental and economic systems. The theory of coevolution was first proposed in biology, for mutual evolution between two species, and expanded later into gene-culture coevolution. Norgaard introduced coevolution to ecological economics, explaining how pests coevolved with pesticide technologies and the institutions that regulated them. Together with Kallis they applied coevolution to the study of water development and urbanization, and the coevolution of rural communities with their ecosystems.[10]

While in Barcelona Kallis came in contact with the idea of degrowth, being one of the organizers of the 2nd International Conference on Degrowth in Barcelona in 2010, and a founding member of Research & Degrowth – Barcelona,[11] a think-tank disseminating research on limits to growth.[12] In Barcelona he collaborates with economic historian Joan Martinez-Alier, with whom they set up the European Network for Political Ecology,[13] a training initiative for graduate researchers in the study of environmental conflicts. In 2018, Research & Degrowth together with ICTA launched a Masters program in Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice[14] in which Kallis teaches economics.

Kallis has defined degrowth as a process of political and social transformation that reduces a society's energy and resource use while improving the quality of life.[15] He is quoted by The New York Times as questioning that a global economy powered by solar and renewable energies can sustain historical rates of economic growth, arguing instead that combatting climate change requires ‘managing without growth’.[16] In March 2019 he wrote in favour of the Green New Deal resolutions presented in the 116th United States Congress, but argued that they should not be promoted in the name of growth.[17] Together with Jason Hickel, they have shown that green growth is impossible in a relevant time frame.[18]

Kallis has written for The Guardian, the New Internationalist, HuffPost-Spain, and La Vanguardia.[19] The volume on degrowth he co-edited with Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria, is the most cited book on degrowth in English,[20] and has been translated into ten languages.[21] In 2018, Kallis published a new book on degrowth with Agenda Publishing,[22] while Polity Press has announced a forthcoming book of his on ‘the case for degrowth’ for 2020.

In his recent research, published by Stanford University Press as ‘Limits. Why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care’,[23] Kallis makes a case in defense of limits, taking issue with the fantasy of modern societies with limitless expansion.[24] A core distinction he makes is between self-limitation, an idea he gets from Cornelius Castoriadis, and which refers to limits that we desire and we want to put upon ourselves in order to live a meaningful life, and limits as a natural–and undesirable–property of the environment or of our bodies, that impose on us scarcity. Kallis discards the notion of limits as scarcity, and makes a case for self-limitation–individual and collective–as freedom. His book also argues that unlike how he is remembered, Malthus was not an advocate of limits, but of limitless growth.

Selected publications edit

Books

  • Kallis, G. 2019. Limits. Why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
  • Kallis, G. 2018. Degrowth. The Economy | Key Ideas, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
  • Kallis, G. 2017. In defense of degrowth. Self-published at Brussels: Uneven Earth publishers (ebook available at indefenseofdegrowth.com).
  • D’Alisa, G. Demaria, F. and Kallis, G. (eds), 2014. Degrowth. A vocabulary for a new paradigm, Routledge-Earthscan. (translated to French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Croatian, Korean).

Academic Articles

  • Hickel, J., Kallis, G., Jackson, T., O’Neill, D.W., Schor, J.B., Steinberger, J.K., Victor, P.A., and Ürge-Vorsatz, D., 2022. "Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help". Nature, 612, 400-403. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-04412-x
  • Hickel, J. and Kallis, G. 2019. Is Green growth possible? New Political Economy, in press.
  • Kallis, G., Kostakis, V., Lange, S., Muraca, B., Paulson, S. and Schmelzer, M., 2018. Research on Degrowth. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 2022-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
  • Kallis, G., 2018. Socialism Without Growth. Capitalism Nature Socialism
  • Kallis, G., 2017. Radical dematerialization and degrowth. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 375(2095): 20160383.
  • Kallis, G. and Sager, J., 2017. Oil and the economy: A systematic review of the literature for ecological economists. Ecological Economics, 131: 561-571.
  • Kallis, G. and H. March, 2015. Imaginaries of Hope: the dialectical utopianism of degrowth. Annals of the Association of the American Geographers. 105 (2): 360-368
  • Kallis, G. and Zografos, C., 2014. Climate change, water conflict and human security, Climatic Change, 123(1): 69-82.
  • Kallis, G., Gomez, E. and C. Zografos, 2013. To value or not to value? That is not the question. Ecological Economics, 94: 97-105.
  • Kallis, G., 2011. In defense of degrowth. Ecological Economics, 70: 873-880.
  • Kallis, G. and R. Norgaard, 2010. Coevolutionary ecological economics. Ecological Economics, 69: 690-699.
  • Kallis, G., Kiparsky, M. and R. Norgaard, 2009. Collaborative governance and adaptive management. Lessons from California's CALFED Water Program, Environmental Science and Policy, 12 (6): 631-643.
  • Kallis, G., Martinez-Alier, J. and R. Norgaard, 2009. Paper assets, real debts. An ecological economic exploration of the global economic crisis. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 5 (1/2): 14-25.
  • Kallis, G., 2008. Droughts. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 33: 3.1 – 3.34.
  • Kallis, G. and H.L.F de Groot, 2003. Shifting perspectives on urban water policy in Europe. European Planning Studies, 11(3): 223-228.
  • Kallis, G. and D. Butler, 2001. The EU Water Framework Directive: measures and implications. Water Policy, 3(3): 125-142.

References edit

  1. ^ "ICTA - Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals". ictaweb.uab.cat.
  2. ^ Kallis, Giorgos (September 2018). Degrowth. Agenda Publishing. ISBN 9781911116790.
  3. ^ "International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims". International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  4. ^ "CV Academic" (PDF). icrea.cat. 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Energy & Resources Group". Energy & Resources Group.
  6. ^ Kallis, G (June 2001). "The EU water framework directive: measures and implications". Water Policy. 3 (2): 125–142. doi:10.1016/s1366-7017(01)00007-1. ISSN 1366-7017.
  7. ^ Kallis, Giorgos (2010-02-15). "Coevolution in water resource development: The vicious cycle of water supply and demand in Athens, Greece". Ecological Economics. Special Section: Coevolutionary Ecological Economics: Theory and Applications. 69 (4): 796–809. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.07.025. ISSN 0921-8009.
  8. ^ Kallis, Giorgos; Kiparsky, Michael; Norgaard, Richard (October 2009). "Collaborative governance and adaptive management: Lessons from California's CALFED Water Program". Environmental Science & Policy. 12 (6): 631–643. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2009.07.002. ISSN 1462-9011.
  9. ^ Kallis, Giorgos; Zografos, Christos (2013-10-02). "Hydro-climatic change, conflict and security". Climatic Change. 123 (1): 69–82. doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0893-2. ISSN 0165-0009. S2CID 154927226.
  10. ^ Kallis, Giorgos; Norgaard, Richard B. (2010). "Coevolutionary ecological economics". Ecological Economics. 69 (4): 690–699. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.09.017. ISSN 0921-8009.
  11. ^ "Research & Degrowth (R&D) - An academic association dedicated to research, training, awareness raising and events organization around degrowth". Research & Degrowth (R&D).
  12. ^ "Research & Degrowth (R&D) - An academic association dedicated to research, training, awareness raising and events organization around degrowth". Research & Degrowth (R&D). Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  13. ^ "Political Ecology EU". www.politicalecology.eu.
  14. ^ "Master's Degree in Political Ecology. Degrowth and Environmental Justice - UAB Barcelona - Spain". www.uab.cat. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  15. ^ Kallis, Giorgos; Kostakis, Vasilis; Lange, Steffen; Muraca, Barbara; Paulson, Susan; Schmelzer, Matthias (2018-10-17). "Research On Degrowth". Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 43 (1): 291–316. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941. ISSN 1543-5938.
  16. ^ Davenport, Coral (2016-04-05). "Can Economies Rise as Emissions Fall? The Evidence Says Yes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  17. ^ Kallis, Giorgos (10 March 2019). "A Green New Deal Must Not Be Tied to Economic Growth". Truthout. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  18. ^ "New study dismisses green growth policies as a route out of ecological emergency". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  19. ^ "In defense of degrowth". indefenseofdegrowth.com. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  20. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  21. ^ "Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era". Degrowth. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  22. ^ "Detail - AgendaPublishing". www.agendapub.com.
  23. ^ Press, Stanford University (2019). Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care | Giorgos Kallis. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503611559. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  24. ^ Kallis, Giorgos (2019). Limits. Why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503611559.

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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably Consider splitting content into sub articles condensing it or adding subheadings Please discuss this issue on the article s talk page November 2019 This biographical article is written like a resume Please help improve it by revising it to be neutral and encyclopedic November 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message Giorgos Kallis born 8 September 1972 is an ecological economist from Greece He is an ICREA Research Professor at ICTA 1 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona where he teaches political ecology He is one of the principal advocates of the theory of degrowth 2 Giorgos KallisBorn 1972 09 08 September 8 1972 age 51 Athens GreeceNationalityGreekAcademic careerInstitutionAutonomous University of BarcelonaAlma materImperial College London Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Selected publications 4 ReferencesEarly life and education editKallis was born and raised in Athens son of medical doctors Vassilis and Maria Kallis His mother was a political activist imprisoned during Greece s Military Junta later a founding member of the Greek Green Party president of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims and a candidate in Greek and European parliament elections 3 Kallis earned a Bachelors in Chemistry with First Class Honours from Imperial College in London where he continued to complete a master s degree in Environmental Engineering After a period at the European Parliament working at the Science and Technological Options Assessment Unit for the preparation of the EU Water Framework Directive he completed a PhD at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of the Aegean in 2003 4 From 2005 to 2008 he was a Marie Curie post doc fellow at the Energy and Resources Group 5 at UC Berkeley He has also a Masters in Economics 2012 from the Barcelona Graduate School in Economics Career editKallis became an ICREA Researcher in 2008 and since 2011 is a tenured ICREA Professor In 2015 16 he was a Leverhulme visiting professor at the Department of Development Studies of SOAS at the University of London His early work during his PhD and post doc years focused on the political ecology of water and the ways social and power struggles shape water development and urbanization He has published research on EU water policy and regulation 6 the history of water in Athens 7 conflicts in California s Bay Delta 8 and climate change and water security 9 While a post doc at Berkeley he worked with economist Richard Norgaard developing the theory of coevolution Coevolution refers to change through mutual feedbacks and selection between social environmental and economic systems The theory of coevolution was first proposed in biology for mutual evolution between two species and expanded later into gene culture coevolution Norgaard introduced coevolution to ecological economics explaining how pests coevolved with pesticide technologies and the institutions that regulated them Together with Kallis they applied coevolution to the study of water development and urbanization and the coevolution of rural communities with their ecosystems 10 While in Barcelona Kallis came in contact with the idea of degrowth being one of the organizers of the 2nd International Conference on Degrowth in Barcelona in 2010 and a founding member of Research amp Degrowth Barcelona 11 a think tank disseminating research on limits to growth 12 In Barcelona he collaborates with economic historian Joan Martinez Alier with whom they set up the European Network for Political Ecology 13 a training initiative for graduate researchers in the study of environmental conflicts In 2018 Research amp Degrowth together with ICTA launched a Masters program in Political Ecology Degrowth and Environmental Justice 14 in which Kallis teaches economics Kallis has defined degrowth as a process of political and social transformation that reduces a society s energy and resource use while improving the quality of life 15 He is quoted by The New York Times as questioning that a global economy powered by solar and renewable energies can sustain historical rates of economic growth arguing instead that combatting climate change requires managing without growth 16 In March 2019 he wrote in favour of the Green New Deal resolutions presented in the 116th United States Congress but argued that they should not be promoted in the name of growth 17 Together with Jason Hickel they have shown that green growth is impossible in a relevant time frame 18 Kallis has written for The Guardian the New Internationalist HuffPost Spain and La Vanguardia 19 The volume on degrowth he co edited with Giacomo D Alisa and Federico Demaria is the most cited book on degrowth in English 20 and has been translated into ten languages 21 In 2018 Kallis published a new book on degrowth with Agenda Publishing 22 while Polity Press has announced a forthcoming book of his on the case for degrowth for 2020 In his recent research published by Stanford University Press as Limits Why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care 23 Kallis makes a case in defense of limits taking issue with the fantasy of modern societies with limitless expansion 24 A core distinction he makes is between self limitation an idea he gets from Cornelius Castoriadis and which refers to limits that we desire and we want to put upon ourselves in order to live a meaningful life and limits as a natural and undesirable property of the environment or of our bodies that impose on us scarcity Kallis discards the notion of limits as scarcity and makes a case for self limitation individual and collective as freedom His book also argues that unlike how he is remembered Malthus was not an advocate of limits but of limitless growth Selected publications editBooks Kallis G 2019 Limits Why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care Palo Alto Stanford University Press Kallis G 2018 Degrowth The Economy Key Ideas Newcastle upon Tyne Agenda Publishing Kallis G 2017 In defense of degrowth Self published at Brussels Uneven Earth publishers ebook available at indefenseofdegrowth com D Alisa G Demaria F and Kallis G eds 2014 Degrowth A vocabulary for a new paradigm Routledge Earthscan translated to French German Spanish Catalan Brazilian Portuguese Greek Dutch Croatian Korean Academic Articles Hickel J Kallis G Jackson T O Neill D W Schor J B Steinberger J K Victor P A and Urge Vorsatz D 2022 Degrowth can work here s how science can help Nature 612 400 403 doi 10 1038 d41586 022 04412 x Hickel J and Kallis G 2019 Is Green growth possible New Political Economy in press Kallis G Kostakis V Lange S Muraca B Paulson S and Schmelzer M 2018 Research on Degrowth Annual Review of Environment and Resources Archived 2022 05 31 at the Wayback Machine Kallis G 2018 Socialism Without Growth Capitalism Nature Socialism Kallis G 2017 Radical dematerialization and degrowth Phil Trans R Soc A 375 2095 20160383 Kallis G and Sager J 2017 Oil and the economy A systematic review of the literature for ecological economists Ecological Economics 131 561 571 Kallis G and H March 2015 Imaginaries of Hope the dialectical utopianism of degrowth Annals of the Association of the American Geographers 105 2 360 368 Kallis G and Zografos C 2014 Climate change water conflict and human security Climatic Change 123 1 69 82 Kallis G Gomez E and C Zografos 2013 To value or not to value That is not the question Ecological Economics 94 97 105 Kallis G 2011 In defense of degrowth Ecological Economics 70 873 880 Kallis G and R Norgaard 2010 Coevolutionary ecological economics Ecological Economics 69 690 699 Kallis G Kiparsky M and R Norgaard 2009 Collaborative governance and adaptive management Lessons from California s CALFED Water Program Environmental Science and Policy 12 6 631 643 Kallis G Martinez Alier J and R Norgaard 2009 Paper assets real debts An ecological economic exploration of the global economic crisis Critical Perspectives on International Business 5 1 2 14 25 Kallis G 2008 Droughts Annual Review of Environment and Resources 33 3 1 3 34 Kallis G and H L F de Groot 2003 Shifting perspectives on urban water policy in Europe European Planning Studies 11 3 223 228 Kallis G and D Butler 2001 The EU Water Framework Directive measures and implications Water Policy 3 3 125 142 References edit ICTA Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals ictaweb uab cat Kallis Giorgos September 2018 Degrowth Agenda Publishing ISBN 9781911116790 International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims Retrieved 2019 07 23 CV Academic PDF icrea cat 2019 Retrieved 20 April 2023 Energy amp Resources Group Energy amp Resources Group Kallis G June 2001 The EU water framework directive measures and implications Water Policy 3 2 125 142 doi 10 1016 s1366 7017 01 00007 1 ISSN 1366 7017 Kallis Giorgos 2010 02 15 Coevolution in water resource development The vicious cycle of water supply and demand in Athens Greece Ecological Economics Special Section Coevolutionary Ecological Economics Theory and Applications 69 4 796 809 doi 10 1016 j ecolecon 2008 07 025 ISSN 0921 8009 Kallis Giorgos Kiparsky Michael Norgaard Richard October 2009 Collaborative governance and adaptive management Lessons from California s CALFED Water Program Environmental Science amp Policy 12 6 631 643 doi 10 1016 j envsci 2009 07 002 ISSN 1462 9011 Kallis Giorgos Zografos Christos 2013 10 02 Hydro climatic change conflict and security Climatic Change 123 1 69 82 doi 10 1007 s10584 013 0893 2 ISSN 0165 0009 S2CID 154927226 Kallis Giorgos Norgaard Richard B 2010 Coevolutionary ecological economics Ecological Economics 69 4 690 699 doi 10 1016 j ecolecon 2009 09 017 ISSN 0921 8009 Research amp Degrowth R amp D An academic association dedicated to research training awareness raising and events organization around degrowth Research amp Degrowth R amp D Research amp Degrowth R amp D An academic association dedicated to research training awareness raising and events organization around degrowth Research amp Degrowth R amp D Retrieved 2019 07 23 Political Ecology EU www politicalecology eu Master s Degree in Political Ecology Degrowth and Environmental Justice UAB Barcelona Spain www uab cat Retrieved 2019 07 23 Kallis Giorgos Kostakis Vasilis Lange Steffen Muraca Barbara Paulson Susan Schmelzer Matthias 2018 10 17 Research On Degrowth Annual Review of Environment and Resources 43 1 291 316 doi 10 1146 annurev environ 102017 025941 ISSN 1543 5938 Davenport Coral 2016 04 05 Can Economies Rise as Emissions Fall The Evidence Says Yes The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 07 23 Kallis Giorgos 10 March 2019 A Green New Deal Must Not Be Tied to Economic Growth Truthout Retrieved 2019 07 23 New study dismisses green growth policies as a route out of ecological emergency EurekAlert Retrieved 2019 07 23 In defense of degrowth indefenseofdegrowth com Retrieved 2019 07 23 Google Scholar scholar google com Retrieved 2019 07 23 Degrowth A vocabulary for a new era Degrowth Retrieved 2019 07 23 Detail AgendaPublishing www agendapub com Press Stanford University 2019 Limits Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care Giorgos Kallis Stanford University Press ISBN 9781503611559 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a website ignored help Kallis Giorgos 2019 Limits Why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care Palo Alto Stanford University Press ISBN 9781503611559 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Giorgos Kallis amp oldid 1210382389, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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