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Scientific paper • 2012

Slow medicine: a new health care model

By: Jean-Louis Aillon, Andrea Gardini

Keywords: slow, medicine, health, degrowth

Scientific paper • 2012

Organic farming in the Italian penitentiary system to rehabilitate detainees

By: Anna Ciaperoni

Key words: social farming, penitentiary system, integration, rehabilitation

Scientific paper • 2012

Indaba Network: supporting and connecting youth engaged in actions of social change through a dedicated g-local network

By: Eduardo Missoni, Alice Russel

Abstract: The economic crisis the world is living through shows us the ineffectiveness of the capitalist development model and of the current financial systems. The real economy is superseded by an ephemeral one which increases inequalities between and within countries, while at the same time emphasizing the need for new social and economic frameworks that are open, inclusive, just, and...

Scientific paper • 2012

Agriculture and human ecology: the value of the territory

By: Carlo Modonesi, Monica Oldani, Celestino Panizza

Introduction: The achievements in life sciences of the last 50 years have widely deepened knowledge and the possibility of intervention on the foundations of living nature. However, such undeniable achievements, by focusing primarily on structural aspects of biological organization, have not shed much light on other characteristics of living creatures, such as historical and ecological ones....

Scientific paper • 2012

Le piccole ONG e la cooperazione internazionale

By: Roberto Pellerey

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

Scientific paper • 2012

The transition towards a bioregional model: the case of Friuli Venezia Giulia

By: Piani Lucia, Rover Alberto

Key words: bioregion, agriculture, transition

Scientific paper • 2012

Dictionary of extinction – The mistery of births

By: Giuliano Cannata

Introduction: What is really happening to the humanity beyond the crysis that touch a part of western economy and the transformation of energetic and communication technologies. Within a scenario of deep social uncertainty and structural crisis in advanced economies, there could be an underestimation of the present real revolution: i.e. the end of growth of human species on earth. Actually this...

Scientific paper • 2012

The debate on the “declining birth rate” in Italy

By: Daniela Danna

Abstract: This paper presents a critical analysis of the scientific and popular debate (the one on the journalistic debate is in progress) on the fall in the fertility rate of Italian women in the last two decades, from 1992 to 2012. The paper wants to denounce the dominant ideology of experts in demography and the family - prisoners without a global view of nationalism and of the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Freedom, awareness and desire in fifteen dialogues with childfree women

By: Ferdinanda Vigliani, Paola Leonardi

Keywords: Awareness, women, childfree

Scientific paper • 2012

Degrowth in Architecture

By: Remigio Masobello

Premise: The acceptance of ecology, but in particular of profound ecology, is the premise for degrowth in our habits and in new architecture. If we consider ourselves ecologists (and it is hard not to for those with even just a little common sense), we must truly respect our environment, nature as a whole and our planet. Such respect will lead us to the path of degrowth. Of course we know that...

Scientific paper • 2012

Nothing is more

By: n'UNDO

Introduction: To construct from renouncement (n'UNDO) is an attitude, a cultural reaction, extendable to any field of knowledge and life that, from architecture and by means of the implication of diverse disciplines, aims to generate a base of thought and action (No Construction, Minimization, Reuse and Dismantlement) as a way of doing sustainable architecture of the territory and the city....

Scientific paper • 2012

Eco-innovation as a Development Tool: Evidence from Latin America and Asia

By: Mario Pansera

Abstract: In the near future the access to basic needs in a world of 7 billion people will be strongly influenced by the 80% of humanity living in the so-called ‘developing world’. Their consumption patterns and their approach to sustainability will undoubtedly reshape the scenario of global economy. The understanding of the evolution of eco-innovation in the South of the world is crucial to...

Scientific paper • 2012

Interdependencies of Technology and Degrowth – Some Cultural Foundations

By: Oliver Parodi

From the introduction: Work, economy and growth nowadays are fundamentally linked to technology, technological progress and the handling of our world by and through technology. If we are talking about degrowth as a passage of civilization we have to keep in mind that our (modern/Western) civilizations are technological ones: At present, we all are living in a world which is strongly formed and...

Scientific paper • 2012

Rethinking development under conditions of uncertainty: The case of EU chemicals management

By: Oksana Udovyk, Johan Hedren

Key words: uncertainty, REACH, environment, de-growth, utopian thought

Scientific paper • 2012

Fast versus Slow Management

By: Claudio Vitari, Roxana Bobulescu, Marjolijn Bloemmen

From the paper: What's Slow? Slow Management can be associated with a wider social movement that is now expanding around the philosophy of slow Life model promoted as an alternative to the extension of the fastness in a multitude of industries. There is now of a plurality of patterns that combine slow versus fast: Città-slow, Slow home, Slow school, Slow money, Slow marketing, Slow art, Slow...

Scientific paper • 2012

Design, prevenzione dei rifiuti e innovazione

By: Laura Badalucco

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

Scientific paper • 2012

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy principle with focus on green design for reduction of e-waste disposal. A literature review.

By: Marinella Favot

KEYWORDS: ERP; extended producer responsibility; e-waste; WEEE; green design; design for environment (DfE); financial mechanisms

Scientific paper • 2012

A Network of Museums and Laboratories to explain and promote the concepts of ‘Waste Prevention’ and ‘Waste as Resource’

By: Mario Santi

From the text: Waste allows us to see our civilisation back-to-front. If we examine what we throw away (and why, when and how we remove it from our surroundings) we can understand who we are and where we are going. Starting from refuse, we can reconstruct the development of our civilisation and evaluate our standards of living and margins of survival. Thinking about the ‘end of life’ of things...

Scientific paper • 2012

Permaculture proposals and tools for degrowth process in the fields of rural work and agriculture in Brazil

By: Mildred Gustack Delambre e Jacques Dias

Keywords : Work, hunger, poverty, Industrial farming, Permaculture, autonomy