Decoupling: a key fantasy of the SDG agenda
Robert Fletcher , Crelis Rammelt | 26 April 2025Decoupling is a dangerous fantasy sustained by disavowal – the simultaneous admission and denial – of its impossibility in practice.
▶Crelis Rammelt
Crelis Rammelt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in International Development Studies at Utrecht University and Lecturer at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Environment and Development from the University of New South Wales. His research interests include poverty and marginalisation, biophysical economics, political ecology, system dynamics, etc. He is also a co-founder of the Arsenic Mitigation and Research Foundation working on a public health action research programme in rural Bangladesh.