01694nas a2200109   4500008004100000245018700041210006900228260001200297520112300309100002701432856012501459       2014                        eng d00aControversies in Environmental and Post-Growth Discourses: Mapping positions to investigate their consequences for the development of indicators for a socio-ecological transformation0 aControversies in Environmental and PostGrowth Discourses Mapping  aLeipzig3 a<p>The debate on the environment and the negative effects of economic growth has been shaped by controversies revolving around issues such as the substitutability of natural resources or the role of technology and work in a “green” economy. Depending on their respective points of view, the disputants reach very different conclusions on possible pathways towards a socially and ecologically sustainable society, translating into diffe-rences on instruments deemed appropriate. Indicators and accounting systems belong to those contested instruments. To tackle the issue of information systems in a systematic way, this paper proposes to start with the controversies among different approaches advocating a socio-ecological transformation . The resulting map of typical positions in longstanding controversies in the field of environmental and post-growth debates pre-pares the ground for the development of a typology of current “transformation discour-ses”. The purpose is to draw conclusions on the specific requirements for measurement systems flowing from different types of transformation discourses.</p>1 aRodenhäuser, Dorothee  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/science/content/controversies-environmental-and-post-growth-discourses-mapping