Dr. Alex Baumann is a Degrowth Academic at Western Sydney University. His work highlights the significant role of land ownership in shaping collective reliance on economic growth. This structural analysis is gaining recognition in Degrowth scholarship, with recent publications in The Journal of Australian Political Economy and the De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth, alongside several discussion pieces. To address this structural impediment to degrowth, Alex advocates for revitalising housing and food land commons, in modern urban contexts. To this end, he is involved in practical policy development through the “Neighbourhood That Works” project, which seeks to reframe public housing initiatives to support commons-based alternatives.

Watch Alex and his Sustainable Futures students deliver a short presentation on this analysis here: https://youtu.be/zuaWj58eIvI