Katharina Richter

ORCID: 0000-0003-3098-5130
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Research Areas
  • Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • African cultural and philosophical studies
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

University of Bristol
2023-2024

Goldsmiths University of London
2019-2021

Reiner Lemoine Institute
2015-2019

IPCC Assessment Reports narrate a particular story of possible futures within climate constrained world. The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways that are used to model these afford economic growth prominent place, with its absence indicating negative sustainability outcomes. Critical post- and beyond perspectives, however, have shown the incompatibility between socially just environmentally sustainable outcomes compound increases in material energy use. This Perspective piece outlines...

10.1016/j.erss.2024.103705 article EN cc-by Energy Research & Social Science 2024-08-28

This article presents a sympathetic critique of degrowth scholarship, which reproduces anthropocentric, Cartesian views nature. I suggest overcoming these by drawing on the modernity/coloniality discourse, as well engaging with indigenous scholarship and decolonial practices such Buen Vivir. make argument for extending agency rights to non-human nature, beginning shift from language "materials" that "the living world." A focus ecological, multi-species justice centred nature would not only...

10.4000/transtexts.1242 article EN cc-by Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化 2019-12-31

This article creates an inter-epistemic dialogue between degrowth and Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay, based on qualitative research conducted in Ecuador. It builds scholarship that considers cultural change integral part of sustainability transformations. The envisions what could look like by evolving non-anthropocentric de-individualised visions thereby significantly advances recently reignited debates around limits to growth artificial scarcity. kawsay is Andean-Amazonian indigenous...

10.2139/ssrn.4693611 preprint EN 2024-01-01

10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107160 article Ecological Economics 2021-07-24
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