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Scientific paper • 2012

La formazione come bene comune

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. - paper only available in Italian, presentation slides in English (Title: Education as commons)

Scientific paper • 2012

Teaching and deep ecology

By: Guido dalla Casa

Abstract: The ecological thinking requires particular awareness of being part of a much larger complex, the Ecosystem, which perhaps is a sentient being (or, if you like, a Great Unconscious): the need for good health of this complex is the first value. The words used to convey concepts are very important: the currently used language is strongly influenced by the dominant anthropocentric...

Scientific paper • 2012

La scuola nell'era della transizione

By: Angelo Marino

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

Interview • 2012

Pierre Rabhi : La croissance est un problème, pas une solution

By: Pierre Rabhi

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYStCuNMcYU[/embed] Dans cette vidéo, Pierre Rabhi répond à quelques questions sur notre société, telles que: les crises actuelles vont-elles permettre de remettre en question le système dans lequel nous vivons ? L'écologie semble aujourd'hui avoir été écartée du débat politique. Pourquoi ? D'où peut venir le changement? Changer les règles du jeu...

Scientific paper • 2012

A nebulosa do decrescimento: um estudo sobre as contradições das novas formas de fazer política

By: Ana Flavia Pulsini Louzada Bádue

Resumo Esta dissertação de mestrado tem como tema central a mobilização políticoecológica de Decrescimento na França. Com o argumento de que o crescimento econômico destrói o meio ambiente, militantes do decrescimento acionam uma diversidade de coletivos, ações e ideias para construir uma mobilização política em forma de nebulosa. Diferente de um movimento social, de um partido político ou de...

Scientific paper • 2012

Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators

By: Helmut Haberl, Julia K. Steinberer, Christoph Plutzar, Karl-Heinz Erb, Veronika Gaube, Simone Gingrich, Fridolin Kraussmann

Indicators of resource use such as material and energy flow accounts, emission data and the ecological footprint inform societies about their performance by evaluating resource use efficiency and the effectiveness of sustainability policies. The human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) is an indicator of land-use intensity on each nation's territory used in research as well as in...

Scientific paper • 2012

Is the degrowth debate relevant to China?

By: Jin Xue, Petter Næss, Finn Arler

Abstract In industrialized countries, the idea of degrowth has emerged as a response to environmental, social, and economic crises. Realizing environmental limits to and failures of more than half a century of continual economic growth in terms of social progress and environmental sustainability, the degrowth paradigm calls for a downscaling of consumption and production for social equity and...

Study • 2012

Trade Off: Financial system supply-chain cross contagion – a study in global systemic collapse

By: David Korowicz

Overview: This study considers the relationship between a global systemic banking, monetary and solvency crisis and its implications for the real-time flow of goods and services in the globalised economy. It outlines how contagion in the financial system could set off semi-autonomous contagion in supply-chains globally, even where buyers and sellers are linked by solvency, sound money and bank...

Misc • 2012

The economics of degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis, Christian Kerschner, Joan Martinez-Alier

Misc • 2012

Stop that train! Ideological conflict and the TAV

By: Leah Temper, Emanuele Leonardi, Lucie Greyl, Hali Healy

The Susa Valley situated between Maurienne, France and Turin, Italy, has been urbanised by the economic development of the region. Scarred by infrastructure like the Frejus highway, an international railway, and numerous dams, tunnels and industries, this "development" has had significant environmental and social impacts. The high speed train line (Treno Alta Velocità in Italian, or TAV)...

Misc • 2011

Ausgewachsen!

By: Werner Rätz, Matthias Schmelzer, Barbara Muraca, Tanja von Egan-Krieger, Alexis Passadakis, Andrea Vetter (Hrsg.)

Ökologische Gerechtigkeit. Soziale Rechte. Gutes Leben. Reader zum Kongress "Jenseits des Wachstums!?"

Misc • 2011

Was mehr wird, wenn wir teilen

By: Elinor Ostrom

Untertitel: Vom gesellschaftlichen Wert der Gemeingüter Verlag: "Die Wälder gerodet, die Atmosphäre belastet, die Meere leer gefischt. Güter, die allen gehören, laden zur Verschwendung ein. Sie werden zerstört und gehen der Gesellschaft immer mehr verloren. Mit Appellen an die Moral oder dem Ruf nach einem starken, ordnenden Staat lässt sich die Misere nicht lösen, und auch Privatisierung ist...

Scientific paper • 2011

Environment versus growth — A criticism of “degrowth” and a plea for “a-growth”

By: Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh

Consumption, Environmental policy, Equity, GDP paradox, Grassroots initiatives, Political feasibility, Reducing work-time, Regulating advertisement

Scientific paper • 2011

Decreixement Sostenible: complementarietat en la diversitat

By: Federico Demaria, François Schneider

1. Introducció: Què és el decreixement? ecreixement és un lema, una paraula míssil, un nou moviment social i intel·lectual. La seva intenció és participar en un procés molt polèmic: el de fer una diagnosi i una prognosi de la nostra societat. El decreixement vol repolititzar el debat sobre la transformació socioecològica, tan necessària, tot...

Scientific paper • 2011

Degrowth in South Europe: complementarity in diversity

By: Federico Demaria, Francois Schneider, Andrea Calsamiglia, Laura Blanco, Dalma Domeneghin

Introduction: What is Degrowth? Degrowth is a slogan, a missile word, and a new social and intellectual movement of the North. The intention is to engage into a very contentious process: the one of making a diagnosis and a prognosis of our society. Degrowth attempts to re-politicize the debate about the much needed socio-ecological transformation, trying to affirm an alternative interpretative...

Misc • 2011

Decrecimiento. 10 preguntas para comprenderlo y debatirlo

By: Francois Schneider, Denis Bayon, Fabrice Flipo

About the book: El término “decrecimiento” hace referencia a un movimiento intelectual y militante que estima que la crisis climática y el callejón sin salida del modelo capitalista sólo podrán ser superados al precio de abandonar el actual modelo de desarrollo productivista y de sus fundamentos: el culto fetichista del crecimiento y la creencia ciega en los inacabables beneficios del progreso...

Scientific paper • 2011