Giorgos Kallis

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Social & Behavioural Sciences

Giorgos Kallis is an environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology. Before coming to Barcelona, he was a Marie Curie International Fellow at the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley. Giorgos holds a PhD in Environmental Policy and Planning from the University of the Aegean in Greece, a Masters in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a Masters in Environmental Engineering and a Bachelors in Chemistry from Imperial College, London. 


Research interests

My research forms part of the inter-disciplinary field of environmental studies, that is, the study of the social and bio-physical causes of environmental degradation. I am motivated by a quest to cross conceptual divides between the social and the natural domains as, for example, in my collaboration with R. Norgaard at Berkeley, where we advanced the concept of socio-ecological coevolution. I am interested on the political-economic roots of environmental degradation and its uneven distribution along lines of power, income and class. My current research is motivated by the double global economic and ecological crisis. I explore the hypothesis of sustainable de-growth: a smooth economic downscaling to a sustainable future where we can live better with less.

Selected publications

- Kallis G 2017, 'Radical dematerialization and degrowth', Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 375(2095), p.20160383.

- Sekulova F, Kallis G & Schneider F 2017, 'Climate change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective', In Victor P & Dolter B (ed), Handbook on growth and sustainability, Northampton: Edward Elgar, pp. 160-180. 

- Calvário R & Kallis G 2017, 'Alternative Food Economies and Transformative Politics in Times of Crisis: Insights from the Basque Country and Greece', Antipode. 49, 3, 597 - 616.

- Kallis G & Sager J 2017, 'Oil and the economy: A systematic review of the literature for ecological economists', Ecological Economics, 131: 561-571.