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Report • 2016

Peoples Global Action

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um das Netzwerk Peoples Global Action geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es...

Misc • 2016

The Great Deceleration

By: Alex Jensen

From the text: . . . One incontrovertible conclusion of all this, it seems to me, is that it is precisely the increasing scale of economic activity – of ‘the economy’ – that is the heart of the multiple interlocking crises that beset societies and the earth today. The relentlessly expansionist logic of the system is inimical to life, to the world, even to genuine well-being. If we wish to...

Scientific paper • 2016

Postwachstumsökonomie und Nachhaltige Entwicklung - Zwei (un)vereinbare Ideen?

By: Jürgen Kopfmüller, Linda Nierling, André Reichel, Marius Albiez

Herausgeber_innen: Insbesondere seit der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise von 2008 haben wachstumskritische Initiativen und Publikationen erheblich an Zahl und öffentlicher Sichtbarkeit zugenommen. Sie positionieren sich dabei vielfach kritisch zu den seit rund 30 Jahren laufenden und in verschiedener Hinsicht etablierten Debatten und Politiken einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. In ...

Presentation • 2016

TUE_18h // Opening panel of the conference: Degrowth in semi-periphery context

By: Giorgos Kallis, Danijela Dolenec, Alexandra Köves, Zoltan Pogatsa

Panel discussion at the the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Alexandra Köves, Zoltan Pogatsa, Danijela Dolenec, Giorgos Kallis Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

WED_19h // Evening plenary - Capitalism and (de)growth

By: Susan Paulson, Daniel O'Neill, Jen Hinton

Panel discussion at the the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Jen Hinton, Susan Paulson, Daniel O'Neill Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

What are the degrowth implications for long-distance trade?

By: Filka Sekulova

Speech by Filka Sekulova at the Degrowth Conference 2016 in Budapest

Scientific paper • 2015

Degrowth and health: local action should be linked to global policies and governance for health

By: Eduardo Missoni

Degrowth, Health, Globalization, Global governance, Civic action, World Health Organization

Interview • 2015

Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit in Indien

By: Vaishali Patil

Dokumentation eines Interviews in Rahmen der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 „Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit“ Titel des Kurses: Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit in Indien Kurzbeschreibung: Vaishali Patil, Klimaaktivistin in der Konkan-Region in Maharashtra/ Indien, spricht interviewt von Steffen Lange vom Konzeptwerk für Neue Ökonomie über die Folgen von Ressourcenabbau für Indien, globale...

Scientific paper • 2015

Sold Futures? The Global Availability of Metals and Economic Growth at the Peripheries: Distribution and Regulation in a Degrowth Perspective

By: Andreas Exner, Christian Lauk, Werner Zittel

Abstract  In recent years, the strategic role certain metals play is seen as central to the geopolitics promulgated by state agents in the North. While a switch to renewable energy and an increase in energy efficiency might be instrumental to reducing dependence on fossil energy, it increases dependence on metals. This paper starts from an analysis of the likely availability of metals in...

Scientific paper • 2014

Latin America and De-Growth: A Chance to Finally Overcome Underdevelopment

By: Natalia Bracarense

Abstract: Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies: an “outward-oriented” program based on exports of primary commodities and, alternatively, a domestic industrialization from within strategy. A consensus that both models failed to achieve sustainable development in Latin America opened space for rethinking development theory and policy in the beginning of the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Commodity frontiers and degrowth

By: Marta Conde, Mariana Walter

Abstract: ‘Commodity frontiers’ are a result of the increasing social metabolism of industrialised economies that is pushing the search for raw materials into new lands. This expansion is creating social and environmental degradation at these frontiers and fostering socio-environmental conflicts. We review the concept of ‘commodity frontiers’ analyzing its roots through Jason Moore’s theory...

Scientific paper • 2014

Towards a re-evaluation of the land sparing vs. land sharing debate from the perspective of peasant farming systems

By: A. Cristina de la Vega-Leinert

Abstract: Worldwide agricultural land is a scarce and degraded resource, while the commoditisation of natural resources spatially decouples the environmental and societal impacts of production, trade and consumption. Sustainability, increasingly an explicit political and social desirable norm, seeks to reverse Nature'S degradation, while fostering human well-being in a fairer society. An often...

Scientific paper • 2014

Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number

By: Lorenzo Fioramonti

GDP; power; war; markets; economists; globalization

Scientific paper • 2014

The social construction of green and social inclusive technological discourses in the Global South: evidence from India and Bangladesh

By: Mario Pansera

Abstract: The process of technological innovation is widely considered to be crucial to enable human development and to guarantee environmental sustainability. However, the process of development in the so-called Global South has delivered controversial outcomes in terms of social and environmental sustainability. Does this setting present new forms of sustainable futures or is it rather...

Scientific paper • 2014

Open Localism

By: Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Abstract: The so-called “open-growth-society”, related to globalisation, has only been open for a few: the rich ones, and for the products from multinationals. Criticizing globalisation, worse promoting degrowth, leads very quickly to accusations of being reactionary. In practice now growth and globalisation in this finite world leads to increasing inequality and therefore – frustration,...

Scientific paper • 2014

Interdependencies between Ethnic Inequality and the Success of Climate Change Policy Making – the Case of Guyana

By: Constanze Weiske

Abstract: Global climate change is the most pressing environmental issue the world society has to tackle in this day and age. Although the international Framework Convention on Climage Change (UNFCCC) has been established in 1992 in order to mitigate climate change, substantial progress is not made yet. In order to identify the reasons for that unsatisfactory situation, researchers has mainly...

Position paper • 2014

Where does responsibility begin and end?

By: Antje Schaffartzik

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Consumption.

Position paper • 2014

Resources & Extraction

By: Ulrich Brand

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Resources and Extraction.

Presentation • 2014

Free Trade – a barrier for degrowth?

By: Filka Sekulova, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Lutz Weischner, Alexandra Strickner

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Lutz Weischner, Filka Sekulova Facilitation: Alexandra Strickner From the conference programme: International free trade regimes and neoliberal trading rules (NAFTA, TTIP, WTO) are a central obstacle for a development towards...

Presentation • 2014

The new economy of nature – tendencies of valuation and financialization

By: Camila Moreno, Alexandra Strickner, Bernd Hansjürgens, Barbara Unmüßig

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Bernd Hansjürgens, Barbara Unmüßig, Camila Moreno Facilitation: Alexandra Strickner From the conference programme: Different strategies have been developed to address the “multiple crises”. One of them is the intensified financialization of nature:...