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Educational paper • 2012

Wachstum ohne Ende

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Themenblätter im Unterricht Nr. 92 bpb: Wachstum ist der Treibstoff unserer Wirtschaft. Löhne, Renten, Investitionen, Staatsausgaben – alles hängt von unserer Fähigkeit ab, immer mehr zu produzieren und zu konsumieren. Doch was tun, wenn Wachstum teuer wird und Ressourcen zur Neige gehen?

Scientific paper • 2012

Ecofeminist Thought and Practice

By: Bruna Bianchi

From the text: In recent years, the degrowth movement has forcefully brought attention to the need to escape market tyranny and the destructive spiral of the capitalist economic system. Can the critique against the paradigm of unlimited growth, the drive towards an economy not based on money and respectful of nature, find common ground with the perspectives offered by feminism, particularly...

Scientific paper • 2012

Le radici culturali della decrescita (dal Medioevo ai giorni nostri)

By: Pier Luigi Tosi

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. Italian only

Scientific paper • 2012

Le Radici Lontane della decrescita

By: Paolo Scroccaro

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. Italian only

Scientific paper • 2012

Re-inventing the future: the relevant thought of Danilo Dolci

By: Marta Garimberti, Letizia Montalbano

From the text: Since 1952, at Partinico, a village in Western Sicily, Danilo Dolci had worked together with the local community and had focused on the issue of the individual accountability. Dolci and his team of collaborators put into practise democratic and non-violent ways of living and fight. Survival standards needed to be reached, but these must be achieved by developing collective...

Scientific paper • 2012

The Deconstruction of the Imaginary of Growth: the Myth of Science in Tiziano Terzani and Raimond Panikkar

By: Gloria Germani

Abstract: Seeing things through the glasses of just one culture, without being aware that we are wearing them: this is the power of myth. The myth of our western-modern culture is based not only on Growth but – at a deeper level - on the Myth of Science (Newtonian-Cartesian classical science). This wider philosophical perspective (which requires a rethinking of Modernity, Enlightenment, and...

Scientific paper • 2012

Deep ecology as a philosophical basis of degrowth

By: Guido Dalla Casa

Abstract: Economic growth was born only in a human culture in a particular moment of its history and is not a "natural push of mankind". It grew up in a culture with a completely anthropocentric background, which considers our species above (out of) Nature and independent from the Ecosystem: it originated from a worldview that sees human activities as possible regardless of their link with the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Ecomusicology: a key to understand human harmony

By: Leonella Grasso Caprioli

From the introduction:The perspective of scientific realism has the tendency to consider environmental problems leaving aside their ethical, historical and political context. On the contrary, the humanities, philosophy, literature, visual arts, music, help to develop a knowledge of the nature alternative to the one proposed by natural sciences, and often overflowing the limits imposed by...

Scientific paper • 2012

Sea-change and Metamorphosis: Useful Images in a Degrowth Approach to the Arts?

By: Marco De Bernardo

Content and purpose : I shall discuss the literary motif of metamorphosis as a reflection of the ecological position of human societies; in particular, I shall deal with a kind of metamorphosis referred to as “sea-change”: the transformation that occurs underwater, or, more generally, by agency of the sea. I shall refer to examples of literary metamorphosis across different historical contexts,...

Scientific paper • 2012

Degrowth and Sustainable Human Development: in search of a path toward integration

By: F. Tabellini, P. Ponti

From the introduction: . . . We think that we have to choose and to make explicit a theory of justice because we believe that any theory concerning human action, even those that claim to be purely descriptive, they subtend a specific idea of human being and they have a normative component (besides a prescriptive one). Looking for a possible solution, we try to trace an integration path between...

Scientific paper • 2012

Future Sustainable Innovation: The “+Zero” Indicator

By: Sabina Scarpellini, Miguel Marco, Jesus Valero, Francesca Salviato

Keywords: Sustainability, Indicators, Industries, Degrowth, Innovation, Research Institutes

Scientific paper • 2012

The Agenda 21 – Myth or reality for sustainable development?

By: Ricardo Braun

Key Words: Sustainable development, Agenda 21, institutional build-up capacity, and local sustainability

Scientific paper • 2012

Depopulation and Public Spaces: The Case Study of Lisbon

By: Francisca Machado Lima

Keywords: Demographic Change, Urban Public Spaces, Wildscapes, Tradicional City

Scientific paper • 2012

Toward a new sustainable Degrowth: An integrated educational programme for the improvement of traditional earth construction in Emdibir-Gurage-Ethopia

By: Mauro Bertagnin

From the text: . . . Earthen architecture is the most original expression of the human ability to create an appropriate built environment with limited resources and the most sustainable and locally available material”. For these reasons earthen architecture can be considered the most appropriate solution for the housing in a perspective of “prosperity without growth”. . . . Contribution to the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Payments for Ecosystem Services: versus or with degrowth?

By: Francesco Marangon, Stefania Troiano

Keywords: Payment for Ecosystem Services, ecosystem services, landscape, degrowth

Scientific paper • 2012

The False Charm of Small Hydro-power. Impacts and Risks related to the Proliferation of “Green Energies" on Alpine rivers

By: Eriberto Eulisse

Abstract: In the next years, the building of 2.000 new small hydro-power plants for the production of “green energy” in the Alps is foreseen by ESHA - the European Small Hydropower Association. In many cases their construction can lead to permanent degradation of important aquatic ecosystems. Because of the present day European policies aimed to promote the development of “clean” energies at...

Scientific paper • 2012

The risk perception regarding a gold mining project in Romania

By: Cosmina-Maria Berindei

Abstract: This paper aims to present the results of an anthropological research regarding the risk perception in the case of the Roșia Montana gold mining project. The methods that were used are specific in the qualitative research and were aimed at the most controversial project of post-communist Romania. The scope of the project is to exploit the gold in open mining using the cyanide in the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Saving by Sharing – Collective Housing for Sustainable Lifestyles in the Swedish Context

By: Dick Urban Vestbro

Keywords: cohousing, house design, lifestyle, collaborative consumption, neighbourly cooperation

Scientific paper • 2012

Experiences of supportive co-housing communities in “Mondo di Comunità e Famiglia” Association

By: Luigi Giario

From the text: We search for a new lifestyle because we know that living in a communitarian environment which values diversity brings serenity. A fulfilled person is a resource for the entire society. We can say to each other “I can be a resource but I need you to make it happen”. On these bases, the first experiences of housing communities and territorial communities were born. Territory can...

Scientific paper • 2012

Non-growth in the housing sector for sustainability and its planning implications

By: Jin Xue

Abstract: By thoroughly exploring the trends of the housing sector growth in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Hangzhou (China) metropolitan areas and its social, economic and environmental consequences, the paper argues for a non-growth and even degrowth in the housing sector in the global North and the wealthy cities in China. A simple thought experiment of a non-growing housing sector is made in...