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Scientific paper • 2014

Sleep and stillness in a mobile economy

By: Tarja Salmela

Sleep, stillness, ethical and moral agency, critical re-reading, growth-necessity

Scientific paper • 2014

Ethical reasons for animal liberation

By: Friederike Schmitz

Abstract: Every year, humans kill 66 billion nonhuman land animals and more than a trillion aquatic individuals for the purpose of consumption. Countless other nonhuman animals are tortured in laboratories or exploited for human clothing, leisure, sports, or work. The immense suffering of animals contrasts with a general neglect of the issue in left and green movements, and theory. In this...

Scientific paper • 2014

Ethical implications of efficiency in climate economics

By: Ida Andrea Braathen Sognnaes

Abstract: Global climate change brings up fundamental questions related to intragenerational and intergenerational equity. Economists have traditionally drawn a sharp distinction between efficiency and equity, but more recent studies in ecological economics have argued that the two are intimately linked (Corbera, Brown, & Adger, 2007; Howarth & Norgaard, 1992; Muradian, Corbera,...

Scientific paper • 2014

Values and Ethics in an Alternative Degrowth Society

By: Clive Spash

Abstract: The values of modern industrial growth society are instrumental, anthropocentric and hedonistic. These contrast with the values of many others in society and their desires for a better world. For example, the environmental movement promotes non-humans, feminists call for a caring and inclusive economy and Marxists point to the social and community values of a less oppressive world....

Scientific paper • 2014

No good life in a bad life? – Experiences of degrowth-orientated actors in a growth economy

By: Jasmin Wiefek, Bernd Sommer

Bottom-up initiatives, Organization of businesses, Conditions for degrowth, Productivity beyond growth

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Redefining Value

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Redefining Value at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Primacy of needs WHAT? > Primacy of self-determined human fundamental needs for all (e.g. Max-Neef's human scale development approach: subsistance, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity and freedom). > Counscious human responsability...

Position paper • 2014

An Economy of Permanence and Rethinking Value

By: Rajni Bakshi

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 Redefining Value.

Interview • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Marktplatz der Retter ... Clive Spash im Gespräch

By: Clive Spash, Schattenblick

Interview mit Clive Spash im Rahmen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Aus dem Interview: . . . Was geschieht mit den jungen Menschen, die zur Degrowth-Konferenz gekommen sind, in fünf Jahren? Werden sie noch radikal sein, wenn sie die Phase hinter sich haben, in der sie durch die Welt reisten und sich engagierten, jetzt jedoch einen wirklichen Beruf ergreifen müssen? Wie wird dieser Beruf...

Misc • 2014

Was man für Geld nicht kaufen kann - die moralischen Grenzen des Marktes

By: Michael J. Sandel

Darf ein Staat Söldner verpflichten, um Kriege zu führen? Ist es moralisch vertretbar, Leute dafür zu bezahlen, dass sie Organe spenden? Dürfen Unternehmen gegen Geld das Recht erwerben, die Luft zu verpesten? Fast alles scheint heute käuflich zu sein. Wollten wir das so? Und was können wir dagegen tun? Mit Verve und anhand prägnanter Beispiele widmet sich Michael J. Sandel dieser wichtigen...

Scientific paper • 2013

Translating degrowth into contemporary policy challenges: a symbiotic social transformation strategy

By: Mary P. Murphy

degrowth, eco-socialism, employment, care, political alliances, imaginaries

Scientific paper • 2013

In What Way Does Degrowth Reconstruct the Ethical System of Modernity?

By: Yoshihiro Nakano

From the introducion: . . .From this vantage, Serge Latouche’s Sortir de la société de consommation (SSC) (2010) makes a fresh contribution to our understanding the problem of development. In this book, he discusses limitations of productivist development model by illuminating flaws in its ethical system. In this article, I examine the contents of the book in the following manner. In the second...

Scientific paper • 2012

How to rebuild democracy, re-thinking degrowth

By: Onofrio Romano

Abstract: Can the degrowth project contribute to rediscovering the meaning of democracy? Can the establishment of a real democracy lead to building a degrowth society? And last, has the project of a “democratic degrowth” a real chance to succeed, from a political point of view? If not, how should degrowth be re-thought to foster democracy? These are the questions entertained in this opinion...

Scientific paper • 2012

Towards a fair degrowth-society: Justice and the right to a ‘good life’ beyond growth

By: Barbara Muraca

Abstract: A critical scrutiny is presented of the ethical assumptions of growth and degrowth theories with respect to distributive justice and the normative conditions for a ‘good human life’. An argument is made in favor of Sen's and Nussbaum's ‘capabilities approach’ as the most suitable theoretical framework for addressing these questions. Since industrialization economic growth has played a...

Scientific paper • 2012

Deep ecology as a philosophical basis of degrowth

By: Guido Dalla Casa

Abstract: Economic growth was born only in a human culture in a particular moment of its history and is not a "natural push of mankind". It grew up in a culture with a completely anthropocentric background, which considers our species above (out of) Nature and independent from the Ecosystem: it originated from a worldview that sees human activities as possible regardless of their link with the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Toward the soil as common good

By: Giuseppe Caridi

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

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

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...

Scientific paper • 2011

The Quest for Pleasure and the Death of Life

By: Joseph Morrill Kirby

Schopenhauer; Kant; Hegel; Ecology; Economics; Philosophy

Misc • 2010

Alles fühlt

By: Andreas Weber

Der Verlag: Seit jeher erklärt uns die Wissenschaft: Alle Lebewesen werden von Reflexen und Genen gesteuert. Doch was ist mit den Gefühlen? Lassen sie sich mit der Naturwissenschaft vereinbaren? Klar und packend erläutert Andreas Weber die Revolution der Lebenswissenschaften: Tiere und Pflanzen sind inniger mit uns verwandt, als wir jemals vermutet hätten. An ihnen erfahren wir zentrale...