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Scientific paper • 2012

Variants of de-growth and deliberative democracy: A Habermasian proposal.

Abstract: This article intends to determine the relationship between variants of degrowth strategies and prospects for further democratization. In a first step, four variants of degrowth policies are distinguished. In a second step, a Habermasian approach to deliberative democracy will be outlined which will be enriched by some proposals for environmental democracy. Finally, a position on...

Scientific paper • 2012

Democracies with a future: Degrowth and the democratic tradition

By: Marco Deriu

Abstract: The interrogation of a possible connection between degrowth and democracy inspires some questions of political epistemology. Is degrowth a socio-economic project which can be simply proposed as an “issue” and a “goal” in the democratic representative system, without discussing forms and processes of the political institutions themselves? Is the degrowth perspective fully compatible...

Scientific paper • 2012

Growth and democracy: Trade-offs and paradoxes

By: Mauro Bonaiut

Abstract: The present paper attempts to reveal the relationships between some long-run systemic processes (on the economic, ecological, social and symbolic levels) and the theme of democracy. Starting from the distinction between democracy and autonomy, the paper focusses on its main issue: the trade-off between growth and autonomy. Continual growth can be produced, and indeed has been produced...

Scientific paper • 2012

Can the Left Escape Economism?

By: Serge Latouche

From the text: . . .To exit from the impasse of a growth society involves finding ways of building an alternative world of voluntary sobriety and frugal abundance, a world we believe possible. But to do this also implies abandoning the well-trodden paths of ‘‘critical’’ thought, the inherited ways of thinking that are fundamentally responsible for all the facets of the Left. Inventing new ways...

Misc • 2012

Family Agroindustry and Degrowth

By: João Luis

The publisher: In this book you will find an experience that many - at the time that it was implemented - called a completely utopian proposal. However, it was fully achieved and proved that it is possible to carry out an agro-food production by undertaking the reallocation of both production and consumption, combined with a social inclusion program based on degrowth principles regarding the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Introducing the rule of ecological law

By: Geoffrey Garver, Geoffrey Garver

From the text: Systemic ecological boundaries, buffered with means to allow the flourishing of life and not merely its survival, are the boundaries that matter most in this critical era. They can serve as the base of a structure of ecological law that must be respected and enforced to fend off catastrophe and enhance the capacity for life to flourish. I argue that the looming prospect of...

Scientific paper • 2012

Another Governance: Kicking Democracy’s Growth Habit

By: Bruce Jennings

From the text: So conceived, governance is a process that involves many institutions — in the economy, civil society, and religious and cultural organizations — in addition to the government legally defined. Governance is even more ubiquitous than the entity, also not identical with the government, called the state. Questions about the form that governance in a degrowth society should take are...

Misc • 2012

Re-politicising society, re-socialising politics with Degrowth

By: Vincent Liegey

What political strategy for a democratic and serene transition towards sustainable and desirable societies of Degrowth. This text presents the complementarity of the diversity of levels, approaches and strategies for the Degrowth movement. > In French

Misc • 2012

A Degrowth Party: for what?; Nous sommes Parti-e-s Pour La Décroissance

By: Parti Pour La Decroissance

This text presents the history of the French Degowth party and questions why do we need, or not, a Degrowth party? > In French > Here also the genealogy of the French Degrowth movement (in French)

Interview • 2012

La Décroissance en vidéo

By: Vincent Liegey, Vincent Moreau

Introduction à la Décroissance avec dix interviews filmés: 1. Notre candidatE est la Décroissance. 2. La Décroissance: mais c’est quoi ce mot repoussoir? 3. Aux origines de la Décroissance. 4. La Décroissance: l’histoire d’un mouvement. 5. Quelle stratégie politique pour la Décroissance. 6. Décroissance: démondialisation, protectionnisme ou relocalisation ouverte? 7. Crise de la dette et...

Scientific paper • 2012

A Critique of Degrowth and its Politics

By: David Schwartzman

From the text: The degrowth program is highly problematic because of its failure to analyze the qualitative aspects of economic growth and its emphasis on the local economy without recognizing the urgency to address global anthropogenic change from a transnational political perspective. In particular, a major challenge humanity now faces is to rapidly implement a prevention program to avoid...

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

The City of Commons

By: Delia Del Gaudio

No abstract available Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012.

Report • 2012

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Dem Kaiser, was des Kaisers ist (Teil 1 und 2)

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von Klimacamp und Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Untertitel: Gewerkschaftliche Teilhaberschaft spaltet Klimakämpfe Aus dem Bericht: . . . Die drängende Frage, auf welche Weise der Ausstieg aus fossilen Energieträgern zu bewerkstelligen sei, ohne Massenarbeitslosigkeit und soziale Verwerfungen herbeizuführen, war Thema einer Podiumsdiskussion der...

Scientific paper • 2012

Planned economic contraction: the emerging case for degrowth

By: Samuel Alexander

Keywords: degrowth, uneconomic growth, threshold hypothesis, voluntary simplicity

Scientific paper • 2012

Overcoming accumulation: Is a capitalist steady-state economy possible?

By: Frederik Berend Blauwhof

Keywords: Steady-state economy; Capital accumulation; Capitalism; Ecological economics; Marxian economics; Growth; Crisis; Reform; Policy

Scientific paper • 2012

American passage: Towards a new economy and a new politics

By: James Gustave Speth

Keywords: Economy; Politics; Degrowth

Scientific paper • 2012

Leitbild Schweiz oder Kasachstan?: Zur Entwicklung der ländlichen Räume in Sachsen - Eine Denkschrift zur Agrarpolitik

By: Michael Beleites

Michael Beleites verknüpft seine schonungslose Analyse der ostdeutschen Agrarpolitik vor und nach der 89er Revolution mit der Suche nach Visionen für eine zukunftsfähige Landbewirtschaftung. In dem bäuerlichen Erbe Sachsens und Thüringens sieht er eine besondere Chance zur schrittweisen Wiederbelebung sozial und ökologisch verträglicher bäuerlicher Strukturen. Die künftige Agrarpolitik müsse...

Misc • 2012

A Degrowth reading of the French vote for the far right: the symbol of the failure of a model of civilisation?

By: Parti Pour La Decroissance

From the text: . . . What is most paradoxical in this France who feels « abandoned » and « toils » away, is that it has the good fortune to be situated in strategic areas for our future. While, for these peoples, « cities » are the « symbols of a successful globalisation » – which further reinforces their sense of frustration – the city finds itself in an energy and environmental dead end....

Misc • 2012

Spielball Erde - Machtkämpfe im Klimawandel

By: Claus Kleber, Cleo Paskal

Der Klimawandel verändert bereits jetzt das Antlitz unseres Planeten massiv. Davon ist »heute journal«-Moderator Claus Kleber überzeugt. Auf der Basis langjähriger Recherchen und aktueller Eindrücke an klimapolitisch brisanten Hotspots skizziert er zusammen mit seiner Koautorin Cleo Paskal die Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts – mit ihren Siegern und Verlierern. Extreme Wetterereignisse...