Report on the first survey and identification of the sufficiency groups. FULFILL Deliverable D 3.1

This deliverable presents core concepts targeted within the FULFILL project. It outlines methodological approaches and concerns to research sufficiency-oriented lifestyles on the micro, meso and levels of society. We take an interdisciplinary perspective combining social science and humanity perspectives with techno-economic perspectives throughout the whole project and also in this deliverable (see introduction). We introduce sufficiency as key concept (chapter 1.1.) and discuss the multidimensionality and
diversity of the concept. Based on the variety of approaches towards sufficiency we derive the projects’ two-folded perspective: On the one hand, sufficiency serves as a principle that enables sufficiency-oriented lifestyles (through creating social, infrastructural, regulatory conditions) that reduce energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions and contributes to individual and societal well-being to stay within the planetary boundaries. On the other hand, we analyse sufficiency as already performed by individuals in order to understand various levers on the micro, meso and macro levels of society (i.e., infrastructures and societal frameworks) towards sufficiency-oriented lifestyles. This approach helps to elaborate what (future) sufficiency lifestyles would actually look like.