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Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States

By: Max Koch

Growth-dependent welfare states contribute to climate emergency. The ecological economics, degrowth, and sustainable welfare literatures demonstrate that to re-embed Western production and consumption patterns in environmental limits, an encompassing social-ecological transformation would need to be initiated very soon. This article focuses on the potential roles of the welfare state and social...

Deliberating value: On the theory and practice of valuation of nature from neoclassical to ecological economics

By: Lina Isacs

Adieu, Wachstum! Das Ende einer Erfolgsgeschichte

By: Norbert Nicoll

Die „Grenzen des Wachstums“ wurden 1972 zu dem Umweltbuch des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wo stehen wir heute? Norbert Nicoll liefert eine reichhaltige, kritische Darstellung der kapitalistischen Wachstumsidee. Er macht anschaulich, wie diese historisch entstanden ist, wie sie einen kleinen Teil Privilegierter reich gemacht hat und uns nun in eine Klima-, Energie- und Ressourcenkrise führt. In einer...

Demystifying Degrowth

By: Erica Jung, Jamie Tyberg

Décroissance, Fake or Not ? Décrypter nos sociétés de croissance sans fake news : développement durable, low-tech, sobriété, énergie renouvelable, vivre ensemble

By: Isabelle Brockman

Déterminer s’il est encore possible et souhaitable d’appuyer sur l’accélérateur de l’économie mondiale est aujourd’hui une question majeure. Concilier la préservation de la planète et la course à la croissance avec le développement durable ne relève pas de l’évidence, et dire de la décroissance qu’elle ne peut que mener à la récession, à l’anarchie et à la fin de toute innovation est au...

Underdevelopment, extractivism, and conflict in the Global South and the role of systemic alternatives

By: Barbara Magalhães Teixeira

A condition of underdevelopment has marked the nations of the Global South since the Second World War. The search for development and for economic growth has made countries in the Global South dependent on global markets and international investment, and have made their environment and nature hostage to capitalist exploration. The process of development and of economic ...

Jet Zero and the politics of the technofix

By: Gareth Dale, Josh Moos

Jet Zero: a one way ticket to climate hell

By: Gareth Dale, Josh Moos

Decolonizing technology and political ecology futures

By: Susan Paulson

Rather than glorify or condemn types of technology, this commentary pursues questions about sociocultural systems that co-evolve with technology and that shape its purposes and impacts. I highlight attention among degrowth advocates to political economies that generate techno-environmental phenomena, noting participant efforts to respond to ecosocial problems by changing their own societies...

Commoning Care: Feminist Degrowth Visions for a Socio-Ecological Transformation

By: Miriam Lang, Corinna Dengler

This paper addresses the question of how to organize care in degrowth societies that call for social and ecological sustainability, as well as gender and environmental justice, without prioritizing one over the other. By building on degrowth scholarship, feminist economics, the commons, and decolonial feminisms, we rebut the strategy of shifting yet more unpaid care work to the monetized...

Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices

By: Anitra Nelson, Ferne Edwards

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain. Degrowth challenges growth and advocates for everyday practices that limit socio-metabolic energy and material flows within planetary constraints. As such, the editors intend to map possibilities for food for degrowth to become...

Political discourse analysis of the degrowth challenge to dominant tourism narratives in Spain

By: Neil Hughes, José Mansilla

This chapter uses as a case Spanish cities such as Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao, Seville, Valencia and Barcelona, to explore the role that degrowth social movement actors and ideas have played in protest action directed at the tourism sector in recent years. The authors identify important episodes of contestation in which degrowth activists have been present. Particularly after 2015, the...

Issues and cases of degrowth in tourism

By: Konstantinos Andriotis

Degrowth in tourism is the voluntary shift to rebuild destinations and local economies in a way in which consumption, production and the exploitation of resources are minimal. It looks to ensure that the direction of institutional changes and the orientation of technological development are controlled and in harmony with the environment. Degrowth involves people whose use of personal time...

(De)growth imperative: the importance of destination resilience in the context of overtourism.

By: Martin Fontanari, Anastasia Traskevich, Hugues Seraphin

This chapter examines the topic of overtourism to propose management solutions for destination degrowth and resilience-building. The authors use a Delphi survey, having as a sample 104 tourism experts who have explored the issue of overtourism either conceptually or empirically. These tourism experts include academics, managers of tourism associations, journalists and German ministries'...

Community-based tourism in a degrowth perspective

By: Ernest Cañada

This chapter highlights that despite the large body of existing literature on community-based tourism there is a lack of research adopting a degrowth perspective, as well as those conditions in which degrowth can happen in the case of community-based tourism. Based on the negligence of past research, the chapter explores the potentialities and limitations of community-based tourism experiences...

Degrowing the commoditization process in community-based tourism and local entrepreneurship

By: Ammalia Podlaszewska

This chapter presents an empirical analysis of the tourist destination of Bandung in Indonesia to discuss some of the theoretical constructs of commoditization in community-based tourism and to explore how local resources are made available as an alternative to the dominant doctrines of 'economism'. To identify whether tourism development has exacerbated the existing forms of social and spatial...

Growing degrowth-oriented tourism? CSR certified tour operators as change agents

By: Sabine Panzer-Krause

This chapter acknowledges the substantial role tour operators play in the tourism industry as intermediaries bundling different individual tourism offerings together. The study adopts an evolutionary approach through the analyses of tour operators' sustainability and audit reports and investigates whether German tour operators who have gained the corporate social responsibility (CSR)...

The kavatzas of Gavdos: heterotopias apart from modern societies

By: Pascal Mayer

This chapter presents the results of in-depth observations and interviews of locals and tourists in the Greek island of Gavdos during 2018 and 2019 in an attempt to advance the study on antinomian travellers. The study analysed the way that tourists, the majority being regulars, used to live nude under cedar trees scattered on the beaches, the so-called kavatzas. The study remarks that the...

Pushed over the periphery: downsides of degrowth on a small island - experiences of tourism degrowth on the Isle of Man

By: Brendan Canavan

This chapter identifies several negative social, cultural and environmental impacts brought about by degrowth of tourism on the Isle of Man, UK. It is pointed out that although the local economy has successfully transitioned to new industries, mainly offering financial services to the international wealthy and global business, the vernacular architecture, community facilities and natural...

Freedom of movement and degrowth

By: Rasa Pranskünienė, Dalia Perkumienė

This chapter discusses the topic of freedom of movement from the point of view of tourism and degrowth. The study analyses different scientific and legal sources to give precise answers to three questions that will make it possible to rethink the meaning of freedom of movement in tourism: (a) how are degrowth and freedom of movement interpreted in modern tourism?; (b) how is freedom of movement...