Frugal abundance: Conceptualisation for degrowth
本文概念化‘节俭的丰裕’，认为去增长不是匮乏而是丰裕，强调在生态和社会公正前提下满足所有人的物质需求，为去增长运动提供理论工具。
The concept of ‘frugal abundance’ has recently been mentioned in numerous degrowth publications and even presented as “the essence of degrowth” (Kallis et al., 2022, p.2). However, it has not yet been clearly conceptualised. The aim of this article is to start filling this gap. It provides substance to degrowth-compatible understandings of frugality and of abundance based on frugality, stressing the importance of the autonomous and pluriversal design of ‘enough’. It highlights that human material desires can be finite and satiated under some societal organisations and cultures. It also proposes a definition of a society of frugal abundance: it is a society in which everyone has a good life, consumption is low enough to achieve global ecological and social justice, and the material wants of everyone are satisfied. Through the notion of frugal abundance, the article argues that degrowth is associated with abundance, prosperity, richness, and it puts forth the term as a valuable addition to the conceptual and communication toolbox of the degrowth movement.