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Scientific paper • 2016

De-growth and critical community psychology: Contributions towards individual and social well-being

By: Alfredo Natale, Salvatore Di Martino, Fortuna Procentese, Caterina Arcidiacono

Keywords: Degrowth; Critical community psychology; Well-being; Decolonisation of the imaginary; Reciprocity; Social justice

Misc • 2016

Keep Connecting Dots

By: TheRulesOrg

The publisher about the video: What do rising sea levels in Bangladesh, the break up of public utilities in Ghana and austerity in the UK have in common? They’re all part of the same global story. The story of one global economy that connects various economic, political, environmental and societal crises faced by communities around the world. By asking questions of this story - how is...

Scientific paper • 2016

Where would gender relations stand in a Degrowth economy?

By: Katherine Lindsay-Smith

Keywords: degrowth; gender relations; political economy

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 ...

Scientific paper • 2016

Deep decarbonisation and social justice – an overview of policy proposals

By: Klara Hajdu

Transition to a sustainable economy requires a fundamental change in how we use natural resources in a quantitative and qualitative way. Not only a substantial reduction of resource use is needed in a range of 3 to 5, but also a deep decarbonisation needs to take place, which results in zero GHG emissions by mid century. At the same time the growing national and international inequalities pose...

Scientific paper • 2016

Empowering Radical Development Alternatives

By: Ashish Kothari

Conventional power equations are being challenged in innovative ways by communities in India and elsewhere. While the power elites prod countries like India into the ever-tightening embrace of global capital, it is becoming clearer by the day that neither do the poor and marginalized benefit, nor is a globalized model of development ecologically sustainable. In the middle of the multiple crises...

Scientific paper • 2016

Sustainable consumption and social justice in a constrained world

By: Julia Steinberger, Sylvia Lorek, Edina Vadovics, Antonietta Di Giulio, Philip J Vergragt, Marlyne Sahakian

Special session proposal submitted by SCORAI Europe, organized by Sylvia Lorek, Marlyne Sahakian, Edina Vadovics and Philip Vergragt. This session introduces degrowth and transformations from the viewpoint of sustainable consumption, understood as an attractive, equitable and empowering ‘new normal’ that involves a good life for all in a constrained world. Based on a SCORAI workshop hosted...

Presentation • 2016

FRI_19h // Is climate justice possible without degrowth?

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Mladen Domazet, Jagoda Munic

Panel discussion at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Mladen Domazet, Jagoda Munic, Matthias Schmelzer Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Misc • 2016

Degrowth Audiobook

By: Robert Orzanna

This is a collaborative podcast project to create an audio book version of the book “Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era” for various languages. English Deutsch Espanol Francais

Analysis • 2015

Post-Development Discourse: Lessons for the Degrowth Movement

By: Lasse Thiele

From the text: Is degrowth only conceivable in the context of “oversaturated” industrial societies while the global “South” remains dependent on growth? Lasse Thiele challenges this assumption, noting that "assumptions underlying such demands are quickly revealed to be rooted firmly in Western ideas of progress and growth." > read part 1 > read part 2 This article is also available in...

Scientific paper • 2015

Does slow growth lead to rising inequality? Some theoretical reflections and numerical simulations

By: Tim Jackson, Peter A. Victor

Social justice; Inequality; Macroeconomics; Stock flow consistent modelling; Savings; Investment

Interview • 2015

"Wir erzeugen künstlich einen gescheiterten Staat": Harald Schumann über Griechenland und die Zukunft Europas

By: Kontext TV

mit Harald Schumann, investigativer Journalist (Der Tagesspiegel), Buchautor ("Die Globalisierungsfalle", "Der globale Countdown") und Protagonist der Filme "Staatsgeheimnis Bankenrettung" und "Macht ohne Kontrolle" Kontext-TV über den Beitrag: Griechenland habe mit den jüngsten Kreditprogrammen zwar den Euro behalten aber die Demokratie verloren. Das Land sei zu einem Protektorat der anderen...

Scientific paper • 2015

Wirtschaft ist Care oder: Die Wiederentdeckung des Selbstverständlichen

By: Ina Praetorius

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: Die Ökonomie ist zu einer Art Leitwissenschaft geworden, aus der viele Menschen ihre Anschauungen über "normal" und "richtig" beziehen, über den Wert von Beziehungen und Tätigkeiten. Doch ausgerechnet diejenigen Maßnahmen zur Bedürfnisbefriedigung, die immer noch von viel mehr Frauen als Männern gratis in so genannten Privatsphären geleistet werden, kommen in der...

Report • 2015

Their recession is not our degrowth!

By: Federico Demaria

A easy reading article explaining basics of degrowth. At the same time Federico Dearia embeds these basic ideas into the current political situation in Spain and the situation of the ongoing social and environmental crisis. The articel also gives insights to the state of the movement. From the article: "Some critics accuse degrowth of being too unrealistic. But the true fantasy is thinking that...

Scientific paper • 2015

Can Green Growth Really Work?

By: Ulrich Hoffmann

Can Green Growth Really Work and what are the True (Socio-) Economics of Climate Change? Abstract: Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards "green growth" as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, largely based on enhanced material/resource/energy efficiency, structural changes towards a service-dominated economy and a switch in the energy mix...

Misc • 2015

Zeitwohlstand. Politisches Ziel einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation?

By: Nina Palm, Katharina Bohnenberger

Dokumentation eines Kurses der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 "Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit" Titel des Kurses: Vom Emissionshandel zu Biodiversitätsbanken - warum ökonomische Bewertung Natur nicht schützt. Warum ökonomische Bewertung und Inwertsetzung von Natur nicht mit ökologischer Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie vereinbar sind Kursbeschreibung aus dem Programm: In diesem Kurs wollen wir die...

Report • 2015

Wie viele Divisionen hat der Papst?

By: Wolfgang Sachs, Hermann E. Ott

Untertitel: Die Umwelt-Enzyklika und ihre Wirkung auf die Klimapolitik. Kommentar zur Enzyklika "Laudato Si’". Die zentralen Botschaften werden herrausgearbeitet. Außerdem wird eine mögliche Wirkung diskutiert. In: politische ökologie 142, oekom verlag 2015, S. 124–127

Presentation • 2015

What is climate justice?

By: Lyda Fernanda Forero

Keynote at the degrowth summer school 2015: degrowth in action - Climate Justice Lyda Fernanda Forero: What is climate justice? From the programme: Climate change affects those regions and people most that have least contributed to it. This keynote lecture analyses the causes and consequences of climate change in the different parts of the world and discusses the historical responsibility...

Report • 2015

Wachstum ohne Ende?

By: Anja Humburg, Jutta Wieding, Jochen Dallm, Miriam Boschmann, Gert Sanders

bundjugend.de: Was Wirtschaftswachstum mit Deinem Leben zu tun hat, warum die Wirtschaft nicht einfach immer weiter wachsen kann und wie wir gemeinsam wirtschaften können, um den Planeten zu schützen. Das Wirtschaftswachstum ist zum Ziel unserer Entwicklung und dem Anliegen der Politik geworden. Aber ist mit einem Wachstum der Wirtschaft ein besseres Leben verbunden? Ist unendliches Wachstum in...

Position paper • 2015

The leap manifesto

By: Diverse

A Call for Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another The manifesto calls for a radical social-ecological transformation in Canada. Central are climate justice, 100% green energy, public infrastructure, a fair economy and democracy. > the manifesto in other languages