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Scientific paper • 2017

The unit of resilience: unbeckoned degrowth and the politics of (post)development in Peru and the Maldives

By: Eric Hirsch

Keywords: resilience, degrowth, climate change, Peru, Maldives

Scientific paper • 2017

Finding common ground: exploring synergies between degrowth and environmental justice in Chiapas, Mexico

By: Jonathan Otto

Key Words: Degrowth, environmental justice, contestation, Mexico

Scientific paper • 2017

Beyond (anti)utilitarianism: khat and alternatives to growth in northern Madagascar

By: Lisa L. Gezon

Keywords: Madagascar, khat, utilitarian, degrowth, economy, urban

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth and post-extractivism: two debates with suggestions for the inclusive development framework

By: Ulrich Brand, Tobias Boos, Alina Brad

Abstract: Two thrilling academic debates are taking place in different parts of the world. In Europe, the concept of degrowth is gaining in importance as a strategy to reorient societies and create well-being against the imperatives of capitalist growth. In Latin America, there is a post-extractivism or good living critique of the currently dominant development model of neo-extractivism. Only...

Misc • 2017

Imperiale Lebensweise

By: Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen

Zur Ausbeutung von Mensch und Natur in Zeiten des globalen Kapitalismus Der Verlag: Haben wir die Zeiten des Imperialismus nicht längst hinter uns gelassen? Wenn man erwägt, in welchem Maße sich der Globale Norden nach wie vor an den ökologischen und sozialen Ressourcen des Globalen Südens bedient, rücken die Begriffe »Globaler Kapitalismus« und »Imperialismus« wieder näher zusammen. Unsere...

Scientific paper • 2017

Value, Growth, Development: South American Lessons for a New Ecopolitics

By: Eduardo Gudynas

KEYWORDS: Degrowth, ecosocialism, developmentalism, Buen Vivir

Misc • 2017

The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal world

By: Branko Milanovic

Introduction to the article by the author: I have recently had Twitter and email discussions with a couple of people who are strong proponents of “degrowth”. From these exchanges I got the impression that there were unaware of just how unequal and poor (yes, poor) the world is today and what would be the trade-offs if we really were to decide to fix the volume of goods and services produced...

Interview • 2017

Entwicklung ist eine Fata Morgana

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Alberto Acosta

Interview mit Alberto Acosta, geführt von Matthias Schmelzer Spätestens seit Geflüchtete im Sommer 2015 das europäische Grenzregime vorübergehend aus den Angeln gehoben haben, ist die Beschäftigung mit Fluchtursachen zu einem politischen Dauerbrenner avanciert. Dabei wird die Diskussion vor allem von Seiten der Regierungen und der Rechten geführt, mit dem Ziel, Migration von vornherein zu...

Misc • 2017

A climate of injustice: achieving fairness in a sustainable economy

By: Riccardo Mastini

Although some have criticised the Paris agreement as unfair for western countries, we may need to go even further towards consumption-based accounting to limit climate change and support an inclusive economic model.

Scientific paper • 2016

Is there a Global Environmental Justice Movement?

By: Leah Temper, Daniela Del Bene, Joan Martinez‐Alier, Arnim Scheidel

Keywords: Environmental justice, ecological distribution conflicts, collaborative research, activist knowledge, EJatlas, environmental racism, environmentalism of the poor, climate justice, statistical political ecology

Interview • 2016

Klimagerechtigkeit: Der Kampf zwischen Arm und Reich

By: Lyda Fernanda Forero, Tadzio Müller, Kayah George, Aile Javo, Themba Austin Chauke, Mariama Williams, Pablo Solón, Alice Bows-Larkin, Kevin Anderson, Tim Gore, Janet Redman

Die reichsten zehn Prozent der Weltbevölkerung sind für die Hälfte aller Emissionen verantwortlich. Dagegen emittieren die ärmsten 50 Prozent nur ein Zehntel aller Treibhausgase. Die extreme ökonomische Ungleichheit auf der Welt und die Klimafrage lassen sich nur gemeinsam lösen - oder gar nicht, so Tim Gore von Oxfam. Es sind die reichsten zehn Prozent, deren Fußabdruck dramatisch schrumpfen...

Scientific paper • 2016

Innovation for de-growth: A case study of counter-hegemonic practices from Kerala, India

By: Mario Pansera, Richard Owen

Keywords: Degrowth from the Global South; Technological innovation; Discourse of development

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth: Consume less. Share more.

By: Rajni Bakshi

From the publication: . . . But this looming crisis is also an opportunity to expand our imagination and open new vistas. For India, therefore, “re-growth” might be a more meaningful descriptor than the “degrowth” scenario being articulated by West European academics and activists. Its essence would be similar to what Mahatma Gandhi called “sarvodaya” — or an equitable and ecologically and...

Misc • 2016

Degrowth in India: Necessity, Actions and Initiatives

By: Brototi Roy

From the text: The context for a degrowth movement in India differs significantly from that of the Global North. Although founded upon the same philosophical, and ideological basis, the differences in scope between the two are sharp. For India, what is of central importance is the preservation of the “degrowth” paradigm in practice, rather than the establishment of it as a novel paradigm....

Report • 2016

Degrowth: a “bomb-word” comes of age

By: Rajni Bakshi

Report from the degrowth conference in Budapest 2016 from an Indian perspective. From the text: A decade after the term ‘degrowth’ was first deployed by a small group of European academics, it draws unconventional thinkers, not mainstream policy makers. The recent Degrowth Conference in Budapest made perpetual growth, not degrowth, seem utopian.

Interview • 2016

Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental Justice

By: Federico Demaria, Joan Martinez Alier, Antonio Cerrillo

From the article: With the 5th International Degrowth Conference taking place next week Spanish Ecologists Professor Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria - both working at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) - explain why we need a 'less is more' alternative economic model and how the burgeoning Global Environmental...

Scientific paper • 2016

Biophysical limits of current debates on degrowth and the knowledge economy

By: Jesus Ramos-Martin

Keywords: Degrowth, knowledge, sustainability, complexity, societal metabolism

Report • 2016

Post-Development

By: Daniel Bendix

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um Post-Development 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 sowohl bei diesen...

Scientific paper • 2016

Economic modelling and Degrowth

By: Federico Demaria, Claudio Cattaneo, Simone D'Alessandro, Giovanni Bernardo, Ilaria Perissi

Degrowth calls for a sustainable downscaling of production and consumption, to enhance wellbeing and environmental sustainability. It is important, for the widespread acceptance of this aim, to show how and under which conditions sustainable degrowth can be achieved. In order to gain a broad political legitimacy, the social and environmental effects of no-growth policies need to be shown and...

Scientific paper • 2016

On Degrowth in the South: The Case of India

By: Alex Jensen

However much of a growing consensus there may be against continued economic growth in the global north, there is much less clarity about the topic when it comes to the global south. For many critics of northern growth, when it comes to the global south, the 'need' for continued economic growth is often taken as self-evident. Economic growth, it is assumed, is still needed to achieve justice,...