Prof. Dr. Barbara Muraca

Monographs

Denken in Grenzgebiet: prozessphilosophische Grundlagen einer Theorie starker Nachhaltigkeit. Freiburg/München: Karl Alber Verlag, 2010

Gut Leben: Eine Gesellschaft jenseits des Wachstums. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2014

Edited Books:

Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften. Atlas der Globalisierung: Weniger wird mehr. Der Postwachstumsatlas. Berlin: TAZ/Le Monde Diplomatique, 2005.

Rätz, W., von Egan-Krieger, T., Vetter, A. Muraca B., Passadakis, A., and Schmelzer, M. Eds. Ausgewachsen: Ökologische Gerechtigkeit, Soziale Rechte, Gutes Leben. VSA, Hamburg, 2011.

Stoltenberg, U., Muraca, B. and Nora, E. editors. Nachhaltigkeit ist machbar. Das “Schaufenster für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung” als innovatives Projekt zur Kommunikation und Entwicklung von Nachhaltigkeit. Frankfurt: VAS-Verlag für Akademische Schriften, 2005. 

Scientific Reports:

Anderson, C.B. et al. (2022). “Chapter 2: Conceptualizing the diverse values of nature and their contributions to people”. In: Methodological Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Balvanera, P., Pascual, U., Christie, M., Baptiste, B., and González-Jiménez, D. (eds). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6493134 

Articles (peer reviewed - Selection):

Muraca, Barbara (2026). “At home in the penumbra: how hermeneutical environmental ethics can contribute to a relational biodiversity economics,” COSUST 83:101738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2026.101738 

Murali, R. et al. (2025). “Navigating diverse human–nature worldviews for more inclusive conservation,” Conservation Biology, e70144. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70144 

Himes, A., Muraca, B. et al. “Horizontal portability: A proposal for representing place-based relational values in research and policy,” People and Nature Vol. 7, 2025, pp. 752–764. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70016 

Allen, K. E. et al. “Grassroots relational approaches to agricultural transformation in Latin America,” Ecosystems and People, Vol. 20, no. 1, 2024, 2390470  https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2024.2390470 

 
Himes, A., B. Muraca, et al. “Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values,” BioScience, Vol 74, no. 1, 2023, pp. 25–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad109 

 
Gould, R. et al. “Building on Spash's critiques of monetary valuation to suggest ways forward for relational values research,” Environmental Values, Vol 33, Issue 2, https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719241231422 

 
Muraca, B. “Von den Rechten der Natur zum konvivialen Naturschutz? Allianzen zwischen globalen Umweltbewegungen und dem Kampf indigener Völker durch kontrollierte Äquivokation”. Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft, Degens, P. and Adloff, F. (eds.), Vol 9, Issue 2, 2023, pp. 135-164. https://doi.org/10.14361/zkkw-2023-090207 

 
Arias-Arévalo, P., E. et al.  “The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change,” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 64, 2023, 101352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101352.IF:7.2 

Raymond, C. M., et al. “An inclusive typology of values for navigating transformations towards a just and sustainable future” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 64, 2023, 101301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101301 

Lenzi, D., et al. “Justice, Sustainability, and the Diverse Values of Nature: Why They Matter for Biodiversity Conservation,” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 64, 2023, 101353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101353

Pascual, U. et al. “Diverse values of nature for sustainability.” Nature 620, 2023, pp. 813–823. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9 

Gould, R., B. Muraca, et al. “Biodiversity and Relational Values,” Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 3rd Edition, 2023, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00091-8 
 

Lliso, B. et al.  “Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol no. 56, 2022, 101173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101173 

Brand, U., B. Muraca, et al. “From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation.” Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy Vol 17, no. 1, 2021, pp. 265-292 https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1940754 (Translated into Chinese and into Spanish and published in:  Journal of Poyang Lake Vol 3, 2023. doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1674-6848.2023.03.002  Ambientes: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política, Vol 6, Issue 1, 2024, pp. 259-331. https://doi.org/10.48075/amb.v6i1.33623)

Jacobs, S. et al. “Use your power for good: plural valuation of nature – the Oaxaca statement.” Global Sustainability, Vol 3, e8, 2020, pp. 1–7. IF: 5.5. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.2

Gould, R. et al. “He ʻike ʻana ia i ka pono (it is a recognizing of the right thing): how one indigenous worldview informs relational values and social values.” Sustainability Science Vol 14, 2019, pp. 1213–1232. (IF: 4.669). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00721-9 

 
Eversberg, D. and B. Muraca. “Degrowth-Bewegungen: Welche Rolle können sie in einer sozialökologischen Transformation spielen?” Special Issue “Große Transformation? Zur Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften”, Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 2019, pp. 487-503. (IF: 0.419). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25947-1_27

 
Himes, A. and B. Muraca. “Relational values: the key to pluralistic valuation of ecosystem services.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability vol 35, 2018, pp. 1-7. IF: 6.984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.09.005

 
Kallis, G., et al. “Research On Degrowth.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources (ARER) Vol 43, 2018, pp. 291-316. (IF: 6,268.). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941

 
Jax, K. et al. “Caring for nature matters: a relational approach for understanding nature’s contributions to human well-being.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability vol. 35, 2018, pp. 22-29. (IF: 4.258). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.009

 
Muraca, B. and F. Neuber. “Viable and Convivial Technologies: Considerations on Climate Engineering from a Degrowth Perspective.” Journal of Cleaner Production Vol 197, Issue 2, 2018, pp. 1810-1822. (IF: 4.959). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.04.159

Muraca, Barbara. “Theology as the Practice of (Radical) Alternatives: A choreographic encounter with ‘Cloud of the Impossible’.” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol 17, Issue 1, 2017, pp. 210-226.

Muraca, Barbara. “Relational Values: A Whiteheadian Alternative for Environmental Philosophy and Global Environmental Justice.” Balkan Journal of Philosophy Vol 8, Issue 1, 2016, pp. 19-38.

Chan, MA K. et al. “Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) Vol 113, Issue 6, 2016, pp. 1462-1465. (IF: 9.423; Eigen-factor 2015: 1.32650). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1525002113

Muraca, Barbara. “Wider den Wachstumswahn: Degrowth als konkrete Utopie.”. Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik vol. 2, 2015, pp. 101-109. Republished in the volume: Blätter für deutsch und internationale Politik: ’Mehr geht nicht: Der Postwachstums-Reader’, Berlin: Edition Blätter, 199-208.

Jax, K. et al. “Ecosystem services and ethics.” Ecological Economics Vol 93, 2013, pp. 260–268. (IF: 3.227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.06.008

Muraca, Barbara. “Décroissance: A Project for a Radical Transformation of Society.” Environmental Values Vol 22, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 147-169. (IF: 1.311). https://doi.org/10.3197/096327113X13581561725112

 
Muraca, Barbara. “Towards a fair degrowth-society: Justice and the right to a ‘good life’ beyond growth.” Futures Vol 44, Issue 6, 2012, pp. 535–545. (IF: 1.242). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2012.03.014

 
Muraca, Barbara. “The Map of Moral Significance: a new matrix for environmental ethics.” Environmental Values Vol 20, Issue 3, 2011, pp. 375-396. (IF: 1.311). https://doi.org/10.3197/096327111X13077055166063

Articles (invited) - Selection:

Muraca, Barbara. Across and beyond the Coloniality of Nature: A Teaching Proposal. Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, [S.l.], Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 59-78 https://doi.org/10.7358/rela-2024-02-murb

 
Paulson, S., G. D’Alisa, F. Demaria, and G. Kallis with Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance. “From pandemic toward care-full degrowth.” Interface: a journal for and about social movements, Mayday 2020.

Saave-Harnack, A., C. Dengler, and B. Muraca. “Feminisms and Degrowth – Alliance or Foundational Relation?” Global Dialogue. Magazine of the International Sociological Association, Vol. 9, no. 1, 2019. Web, 04 Jan 2020: globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/feminisms-and-degrowth-alliance-or-foundational-relation/

Sparsam, J., D. Eversberg, T. Haubner, D. Mader, B. Muraca, and H. Pahl. “The Renewal of a Critical Theory of Capitalism and Crisis – A Comment on Nancy Fraser’s Interpretation of Polanyi’s works.” Working Paper der DFG-KollegforscherInnengruppe Postwachstumsgesellschaften, Nr. 07, 2014, University of Jena, 29 pages

Muraca, Barbara. “Wirtschaft im Dienst des (guten) Lebens: Von Georgescu-Roegens Bioökonomik zur Décroissance.” Working Paper der DFG-KollegforscherInnengruppe Postwachstumsgesellschaften, Nr. 06, 2013, University of Jena, 24 pages

Muraca, Barbara. “Prozessphilosophie.” (Process Philosophy) 2013. Naturphilosophische Grundbegriffe. Ed. Thomas Kirchhoff. Web 22 Dec 2019. www.naturphilosophie.org

Muraca, Barbara. “Gutes Leben jenseits von Wachstum: eine ethische Perspektive.” Ethik und Gesellschaft, vol. 1, 2012, 46 pages, doi: 10.18156/eug-1-2012-art-3

Muraca, Barbara, Ralf Döring, Tanja von Egan-Krieger “Von (starker) Nachhaltigkeit zu Degrowth.” Natur, Ethik, Gesellschaft. Ed. Christian Baatz et al. Berlin, Metropolis, 2025, 411-451.

Schmelzer, M. and Barbara Muraca “Postwachstum: German roots and currents of degrowth.” Routledge Handbook of Degrowth. Ed. Anitra Nelson. London, Routledge, 2025.

Saave, Anna and B. Muraca “Rethinking Labour/Work in a Degrowth Society.”. The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies. Eds. Nora Räthzel, Dimitris Stevis, David Uzzell, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 743-767. 

Muraca, Barbara. “Possibilities for Degrowth: a radical alternative to the neoliberal restructuring of growth-societies.” The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Vol. 2. Eds. Julie Keller, Katharine Legun, Michael Carolan, and Michael M. Bell, 2020. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 478-496.

Muraca, Barbara. “Für eine Dekolonisierung des Anthropozän-Diskurses: Diagnosen, Protagonisten und Transformationsszenarien.” Gesellschaftstheorie im Anthropozän. Eds. Frank Adloff, Sieghard Neckel, 2020. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 169-192.

Muraca, Barbara. “Degrowth. Eine radikale Alternative zum Neoliberalismus.” Transformationsgesellschaften. Zum Wandel gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse. Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft. Eds. Michaela Christ, Bernd Sommer, Klara Stumpf, 2019. Marburg: Metropolis.

Muraca, Barbara and R. Döring. “From (strong) sustainability to Degrowth: A philosophical and historical reconstruction.” Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability. Ed. Jeremy Caradonna, 2018. London: Routledge, 339-361. 

Muraca, Barbara. “Prozessphilosophie als Grundlage für die ökologische Ökonomik: Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen mit dem Critical Realism.” Critical Realism meets kritische Sozialtheorie: Erklärung und Kritik in den Sozialwissenschaften. Eds. Urs Lindner and Dimitri Mader, 2017. Bielefeld: Transcript (De Gruyter). 243-272. 

Muraca Barbara and M. Schmelzer. “Sustainable degrowth: historical roots of the search for alternatives to growth in three regions.” History of the Future of Economic Growth - Historical roots of current debates on sustainable degrowth. Eds. Iris Borowy and Matthias Schmelzer, 2017. London: Routledge, 174-196. 

Muraca, Barbara. “Werte und Gutes Leben.” Handbuch der Umweltethik. Eds. Konrad Ott, Lieske Voget-Kleschin, and Jan Dierks, 2017. Stuttgart: Metzler, 117-120.

Muraca, Barbara. “Against the Insanity of Growth: Degrowth as Concrete Utopia.” Eds. Justin Heinzekehr and Philip Clayton, 2017. Socialism in Process. Anoka, MN: Process Century Press, 145-168.

Muraca, Barbara. “Re-appropriating the Ecosystem Services concept for a decolonization of ‘nature’.” Nature and Experience. Phenomenology and the Environment. Ed. Bryan Bannon, 2016. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 143-156. 

Bohmann, U. and Barbara Muraca. “Demokratische Transformation als Transformation der Demokratie. Postwachstum und radikale Demokratie.” Die Grenzen der kapitalistisch-industriellen Lebensweise. Wachstum-Krise und Kritik. Ed. AK Postwachstum, 2016.  Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 289-311. 

Petridis, P., B. Muraca, and G. Kallis. “Degrowth: between a scientific concept and a slogan for a social movement.” Handbook of Ecological Economics. Eds. Joan Martinez-Alier, and Roldán Muradian, 2015. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 176-200. 

Muraca, Barbara. “Care for our Common Home and the Degrowth Movement: A Message of Radical Transformation.” For Our Common Home. Process-relational Responses to Laudato Si’. Eds. John C. Cobb, J. Ignacio Castuera, 2015. Anoka: Process Century Press, 139-149. 

Asara, V. and B. Muraca. “Indignados (Occupy)”. Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new era. Eds. Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgos Kallis, 2014. Oxford: Routledge, 168-171. 

Muraca, Barbara. “Teleology and the life sciences: between limit concept and ontological necessity.” Process and Life – Towards a Whiteheadian View of Living Beings. Ed. Spyridon Koutroufinis, 2014. Frankfurt, Lancaster: Ontos (De Gruyter), 38-71. 

Muraca, Barbara. “Whiteheads Prozessphilosophie und die umweltethische Debatte.” Wo steht die Umweltethik? Argumentationsmuster im Wandel. Markus Vogt, Jochen Ostheimer, and Frank Uekötter, 2013. Marburg: Metropolis, 235-256. 

Ott, K., B. Muraca, and Christian Baatz. “Strong sustainability as a frame for sustainability communication.” Sustainability Communication. Eds. Jasmin Godemann  and Gerd Michelsen, 2011. Dordrecht: Springer, 13-25. 

Muraca, Barbara. “Ecology between natural science and environmental ethics. Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism and its contribution to an ecological worldview.” Handbook of Whiteheadien Process Thought. Ed. Michel Weber, 2008. Frankfurt, Lancaster: Ontos (De Gruyter).  33-50. 

Muraca, Barbara. “Getting Over “Nature”: Modern Bifurcations, Postmodern Possibilities.” Ecospirit. Religions and Philosophies for the Earth. Eds. Catherine Keller and Lauren Kearns, 2007. New York: Fordham University Press. 156-177.