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Presentation • 2014

The economics of enough: Dan O'Neill at TEDxOxbridge

Is economic growth always a good thing? Why are people in countries like the US and UK not happier or working fewer hours when GDP has tripled since 1950? Dan O'Neill's thought-provoking talk exposes the pitfalls of economic growth and hints at alternative ways to measure progress. Dan O'Neill is a lecturer in ecological economics at the University of Leeds, and the chief economist at the...

Scientific paper • 2013

Was bedeuten Übergangsarbeitsmärkte, Flexicurity und Sozialinvestition für Verwirklichungschancen?

By: René-Lehweß-Litzmann

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Einleitung: Verwirklichungschancen, zu Englisch „capability“, ist der zentrale Begriff eines auf Amartya Sen zurückgehenden Ansatzes der Wohlfahrtsmessung 1 . Er steht für die Handlungen und Seinszustände („Funktionen“), die für eine Person erreichbar sind, und die sie mit guten Gründen wertschätzen...

Misc • 2013

How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life

By: Edward Skidelsky, Robert Skidelsky

The publisher: In 1930 the great economist Keynes predicted that, over the next century, income would rise steadily, people's basic needs would be met and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Why was he wrong? Robert and Edward Skidelsky argue that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to 'the good life'. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Assessing sustainability on a degrowth perspective

By: Paula Inês Cosme Teixeira

Degrowth, Indicators, Sustainability Assessment, Policy goals, Policy instruments

Scientific paper • 2012

Future Sustainable Innovation: The “+Zero” Indicator

By: Sabina Scarpellini, Miguel Marco, Jesus Valero, Francesca Salviato

Keywords: Sustainability, Indicators, Industries, Degrowth, Innovation, Research Institutes

Scientific paper • 2012

Evaluation of good practices impacts at the small to medium scale: the Friuli Venezia Giulia experience

By: Stefania Del Frate

From the text: For the evaluation of environmental impacts due to human activities, lifestyles or plans and programs it is essential the identification of measurable indicators that allow to link the activities we're talking about with the effects we're studying. The best choice of the index depends on the type of the impact we want to analyze. The starting point for the evaluation of the...

Scientific paper • 2012

A methodological approach to environmental impact assessment of reuse practices

By: Serenella Sala, Valentina Castellani, Renato Conca

From the text: An efficient and sustainable use of resources is considered a crucial step towards sustainable lifestyles, implying sustainable production and consumption patterns. In fact, the transition towards sustainable production and consumption is recognized as one of the major challenges for sustainability, entailing waste prevention and reduction. E.g. by 2020, the OECD estimates, we...

Scientific paper • 2012

Transition to sustainability: Italian scenarios towards a low-carbon economy

By: Giovanni Bernardo, Simone D’Alessandro

Keywords: system dynamics, scenario analysis, sustainability.

Scientific paper • 2012

Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators

By: Helmut Haberl, Julia K. Steinberer, Christoph Plutzar, Karl-Heinz Erb, Veronika Gaube, Simone Gingrich, Fridolin Kraussmann

Indicators of resource use such as material and energy flow accounts, emission data and the ecological footprint inform societies about their performance by evaluating resource use efficiency and the effectiveness of sustainability policies. The human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) is an indicator of land-use intensity on each nation's territory used in research as well as in...

Misc • 2011

Immer mehr ist nicht genug! - Vom Wachstumswahn zum Bruttosozialglück

By: Petra Pinzler

Der Verlag: Der wichtigste Indikator für das Wohlergehen einer Gesellschaft war bislang das Wirtschaftswachstum, gemessen am Bruttoinlandsprodukt. Doch inzwischen weiß man: Mehr Wachstum macht die Menschen eines Landes nicht automatisch glücklicher. Mindestens so wichtig wie das wirtschaftliche Wohlergehen sind für das Lebensglück Faktoren wie Bildung, Gerechtigkeit, Gesundheit, eine intakte...

Presentation • 2011

Woran sich Wohlstand wirklich messen lässt

By: Gustav Horn, Hans Diefenbach

Vortrag von Gustav Horn und Hans Diefenbach im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe "Wohlstand ohne Wachstum?" des DGB 2011 an der TU Berlin. Beschreibung Gustav Horn wendet sich in seinem Vortrag Schlüsselbegriffen der Debatte um die Realisierbarkeit einer Postwachstumsgesllschaft zu. Wie definieren wir Wachstum und welches Handwerkszeug steht uns zur Verfügung um Wachstum zu messen? Was...

Educational paper • 2010

Bruttoinlandsglück – Auf der Suche nach qualitativer Entwicklung

By: Sascha Meinert, Michael Stollt

Methode zum BIP und zu alternativen Indikatoren des Team Global der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. LERNINHALTE Basiswissen zu unterschiedlichen Indizes, mit denen Entwicklung gemessen werden kann: o Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) o Happy Planet Index (HPI) o Human Development Index (HDI) o Gini-Index o Genuine Progress Index (GPI) o Big Mac Index (BMI) Austausch und Argumentation, Abwägung...

Misc • 2010

Measuring Progress: Indicators for Degrowth

By: Daniel W. O’Neill

A steering paper for the “Indicators for Degrowth” workshop by Daniel W. O’Neill at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Managing Degrowth: Employment, Security and the Economy under a degrowth trajectory". Introduction: The question that this workshop is intended to address is: “Do we need to...

Misc • 2010

How to correct wrong information about economic growth

By: Roefie Hueting

Transcription of an oral session by Roefie Hueting at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Growth is unsustainable. Long live degrowth?". Abstract: Economic growth is generally defined as increase of national income (NI) (or GDP) as a measure of production. However, according to the subject matter...

Presentation • 2010

Agriculture in a degrowth society: helpful indicator for the transition. Transitory indicator for paradigm shift

By: Laurent Lievens

Transcription of an poster session by Laurent Lievens at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Agriculture in a degrowth society: helpful indicator for the transition. Transitory indicator for paradigm shift".

Presentation • 2010

CO2-Emissions: The new GDP?

By: Stefano Sirilli

Poster by Stefano Sirilli at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "CO2-Emissions: The new GDP?".

Presentation • 2010

Economic Growth and Sustainable Welfare - "The Welfare Puzzle"

By: Wolfgang Fellner, Engelbert Stockhammer

Poster by Wolfgang Fellner and Engelbert Stockhammer from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title “Economic Growth and Sustainable Welfare - "The Welfare Puzzle"”.

Presentation • 2010

Agriculture in a Degrowth Society: Helpful Indicator for the Transition - Indicator for paradigm shift

By: Laurent Lievens

Poster by Laurent Lievens from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title “Agriculture in a Degrowth Society: Helpful Indicator for the Transition - Indicator for paradigm shift".

Presentation • 2010

Characterization of the development of European industry based on disaggregated indicators for different environmental impacts, exemplarily for Germany

By: Sibylle Wursthorn, Witold-Roger Poganietz, Liselotte Schebek

Poster by Sibylle Wursthorn, Witold-Roger Poganietz and Liselotte Schebek from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title “Characterization of the development of European industry based on disaggregated indicators for different environmental impacts, exemplarily for Germany".

Presentation • 2010

Measuring Progress in the Degrowth Transition to a Steady State Economy

By: Daniel W. O´Neill

Presentation of an oral Session by Daniel W. O´Neill at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Measuring Progress in the Degrowth Transition to a Steady State Economy". Measuring progress towards a steady state economy from Goteo / Platoniq