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Scientific paper • 2015

Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever

The publisher: In this second volume of collected essays, Samuel Alexander develops the provocative ideas contained in 'Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits'. Given that the global economy in in gross ecological overshoot, Alexander argues that the richest nations need to transcend consumer culture and initiate a 'degrowth' process of planned economic contraction. To...

Report • 2015

People Powered Money

By: Various Authors

neweconomics.org: Money holds many mysteries. Where does it come from? How did it evolve? Who creates it and controls it? Why do we never seem to have enough? People Powered Money helps to unravel the mysteries behind our every-day understanding of money to provide practitioners and policy-makers alike with the currency innovation advice and tools needed to successfully re-engineer...

Misc • 2015

Es reicht! Abrechnung mit dem Wachstumswahn

By: Serge Latouche

Der Verlag: Leise Töne sind seine Sache nicht, auch nicht im Alter von über 70 Jahren. Ex-Präsident Sarkozy verglich seine Antiwachstumsbewegung Décroissance schon einmal mit Terrorismus - zu Unrecht, denn gewaltsame Veränderungen sind Serge Latouche fremd. Was er hingegen liebt, ist die wortstarke Provokation, und so fordert er nichts anderes als eine radikale Absage an die "Religion der...

Interview • 2015

Ernährungssouveränität & Klimagerechtigkeit

By: Ludwig Rumetshofer

Interview mit Ludwig Rumetshofer vom Solikon-Kongress für Solidarische Ökonomie und Transformation 2015 in Berlin. Aus dem Programm Die industrielle Landwirtschaft gehört zu den großen Verursachern von Treibhausgasen. Deshalb muss sie sich grundlegend Verändern, aber nicht nur in ihrer Produktionsweise. Die Organisation La Via Campensina setzt sich für eine faire, ökologische und...

Scientific paper • 2014

Redefining sustainability, resilience and Buen Vivir in a Social Knowledge economy context: The Ecuador experiment

By: Nicholas Anastasopoulos

Abstract: Plan Nacional Buen Vivir de Ecuador 2013-2017 places special emphasis on sustainability at all levels, social, environmental and financial, as expressed in the twelve National Objectives for Good Living, including the Guarantee of the Rights of Nature and the Promotion of a Healthy and Sustainable Environment. Research undertaken by FLOK Society in Ecuador is an experiment of global...

Scientific paper • 2014

What Kind of Growth, What Kind of Degrowth: The Case of Croatia Reconsidered

By: Vladimir Cvijanovic, Tomislav Tomasevic

Abstract: This contribution is a part of Degrowth in post-socialist European Countries Special Session. It outlines the development path Croatia has pursued (that has not produced desirable results) and will argue that the country should pursue sustainable degrowth. We identify potentials Croatia has in ecological agriculture, utilisation of forests as well as other potentials in renewable...

Scientific paper • 2014

The social and economic consequences of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SAEP)

By: Simone D'Alessandro

Abstract: The repeated failures of global agreements for GHG emissions abatement call for a new strategy that involves local communities in implementing effective transitions to sustainability (the Warsaw Climate Change Conference in November 2013 is the last example). This paper investigates the environmental, social and economic consequences of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SAEP) at the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Local renewable energy systems in the Czech republic – the cae of Vilémov

By: Hans Diefenbacher, Roman Juriga

Abstract: The third contribution in the special session on the legacy of Richard Douthwaite will try to apply his findings to the development of the general energy situation in the Czech republic within the last twentyfive years. It will be argued that the transformation of the Czech economy and society since 1989 included developments that, to our opinion, crave for a n adjustment by the...

Scientific paper • 2014

The scientific work of Richard Douthwaite

By: Hans Diefenbacher

Abstract: The first contribution to the special session on the legacy of Richard Douthwaite is an attempt to carve out his most important heoretical findings to show to what extent the work of Richard Douthwaite can be seen as a convincing foundation to a degrowth strategy, and how this foundation can be used to develop practical suggestions towards its political realization. The contribution...

Scientific paper • 2014

Richard Douthwaite's contribution towards a Material De-Growth Society in Ireland

By: Hans Diefenbacher, Willi Kiefel

Abstract: The contribution will focus on Richard Douthwaite's work in Ireland towards a material degrowth society, especially his work within FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability and his activities in “seed projects “ coming from civic society or grass roots level that were needed as there was no use waiting for governments or policy makers to get to grips with problems:...

Scientific paper • 2014

Auswege aus der zunehmenden Flächenkonkurrenz

By: Christian Hildmann, Uwe Scheibler

Abstract: Die Konkurrenz um Flächen verschärft sich sowohl international als auch in Deutschland. Steigende Pacht- und Kaufpreise für landwirtschaftliche Flächen unterstreichen dies deutlich. In Deutschland werden bereits über 110% der landwirtschaftlichen Flächen für die Nahrungsmittelversorgung benötigt. Die Steigerung der Flächenproduktivität ist für viele Prozesse bereits weit ausgereizt....

Scientific paper • 2014

The experience of the Forum for Commons and Solidarity Economy in Friuli Venezia Giulia: new proposal for alternative economic models

By: Lucia Piani, Nadia Carestiato, Ferruccio Nilia

Abstract: Faced with the economic crisis that is affecting in particular the Western countries, in October 2012 in Friuli Venezia Giulia region (Italy) began the experience of the "Forum for Commons and Solidarity Economy". It is configured as a territorial laboratory in which different areas of knowledge, different subjects and different experiences confront each other with the purpose of...

Scientific paper • 2014

The Advantages of a Community Currency – An OCA Perspective

By: Carolin Rauch

Abstract: There is an ongoing debate about the advantages and disadvantages of community currencies in the literature. Proponents of a local currency outline the economic, social and ecological benefits. However, empirical studies find mainly social networking effects and almost no economic influence. It seems that the economic advantage of community currencies does not prevail (at least at...

Scientific paper • 2014

The right to meaningful work as key component of a new European social contract in the light of the socio-ecological transition

By: Judith Schicklinski

new social contract / decommodification of work / meaningful work / cities in transition / active citizenship

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

Growing through the Cracks - A multi-case study of two alternative food networks in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

By: Josefin Smeds

Abstract: As a response to limitations of the conventional food system, alternative food networks such as community supported agriculture and direct selling box schemes have emerged in Romania, involving close producer-consumer connections and an emphasis on local and organic produce. Through a multi-case study of two such networks in the city of Cluj-Napoca, their contribution to the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Transforming the current economic, political and social paradigm through Time Banking

By: Niklas Toivakainen, Ruby van der Wekken

Time Bank, Political Dialogue, Taxation, Solidarity Economy

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Agriculture and Food

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP Group "Agriculture and Food" at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014

Scientific paper • 2014

Is eco-village/urban village the future of a degrowth society? An urban planner's perspective

By: Jin Xue

Degrowth; Relocalization; Eco-village/urban village; Urban planning; Multi-scalar strategies

Scientific paper • 2013

Food for Change

By: Jeff Pratt, Pete Luetchford

Subtitle: The Politics and Values of Social Movements. The publisher: "Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat. Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits...