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Report • 2015

Economics for a Full World

The essay starts with a profound growth critique and then goes over to explain three approaches to integrate economy into the ecosystem. The first one the author calls economic imperialism. It is the concept of integrating the whole ecosphere into the economy by financialization, the second is an ecological reductionism and the 3rd is to create a steady state economy. The author is in favour of...

Report • 2015

Piketty’s ecological missing link

By: Dirk Holemans

capital, capitalism, economics, green economy, growth, Picketty, productivism

Scientific paper • 2015

Prosperous Descent

By: Samuel Alexander

Subtitle: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits The publisher: Calling for a sufficiency-based culture of 'simple living' to underpin a macroeconomic framework of 'degrowth', Samuel Alexander draws on a remarkable breadth of economic, political, ecological, and sociological literature to explore the radical implications of living in an age of limits. Written with clarity, rigour, and...

Interview • 2015

Degrowth – Was steckt hinter der Idee?

By: Barbara Muraca

Interview im Rahmen der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015: Degrowth konkret - Klimagerechtigkeit Barbara Muraca: Degrowth – Was steckt hinter der Idee? Barbara Muraca gibt eine Einführung in das Thema Degrowth, dabei spricht sie über Grenzen das Wachstums. Es geht planetarische, aber auch soziale Grenzen. Dabei spricht sie über Ausbeutung durch eine Verschiebung von Grenzen. Zudem stellt sie dar wie...

Misc • 2015

Das Ende der Megamaschine - Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation

By: Fabian Scheidler

Das Ende der Megamaschine legt die Wurzeln der Zerstörungskräfte frei, die heute die menschliche Zukunft infrage stellen. In einer Spurensuche durch fünf Jahrtausende führt das Buch zu den Ursprüngen ökonomischer, militärischer und ideologischer Macht. Der Autor erzählt die Vorgeschichte und Genese des modernen Weltsystems, das Mensch und Natur einer radikalen Ausbeutung unterwirft. Dabei...

Presentation • 2015

Kate Raworth ESEE2015 Plenary: Can we live within the doughnut community?

By: Kate Raworth

Plenary speech by Kate Raworth Plenary speech at the 2015 European Society for Ecological Economics Conference at the University of Leeds in July 2015. Practitioners Panel Q&A session with Ronan Palmer, Kate Raworth, Andy Mace and Paul Ellis

Presentation • 2015

Dan O ´ Neill ESEE2015 Plenary: Achieving a steady state economy within planetary boundaries

By: Dan O´Neill

Plenary speech by Dan O´Neill Plenary speech at the 2015 European Society for Ecological Economics Conference at the University of Leeds in July 2015. Q&A session with Giorgos Kallis and Dan O´Neill

Presentation • 2015

Melissa Leach ESEE2015 Plenary: Transformative pathways and interdisciplinary challenges

By: Melissa Leach

Plenary speech by Melissa Leach Plenary speech at the 2015 European Society for Ecological Economics Conference at the University of Leeds in July 2015.

Scientific paper • 2014

Blue growth strategy of the EU – a real chance for a sustainable use of the seas?

By: Ralf Döring

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to show that the Blue Growth strategy of the European Union again ignores the fact that ongoing increase in economic activity is not possible while decreasing negative impacts on ecosystems and preserving the natural environment. The strategy again is not defining ways to cope with limits to resource availability, the necessity to reduce negative external...

Scientific paper • 2014

Body-Scale: Somaticity, Degrowth, and the Revival of Place

By: Kris Forkasiewicz

Abstract: The paper deals with the following questions: —How the "full-bodied" quality of lived meaning diminishes for the anthropoi with the growth of institutions and infrastructures beyond its somatic grasp —How, accordingly, lived experience is impoverished and flattened —How with growth, what is commonly imagination, rather than being the celebrated paragon of human nature, constitutes a...

Scientific paper • 2014

Transformative modeling: Identifying drivers, blockages and fundamental leverage points for sustainability transition

By: Harald Heinrichs, Kai Neuman, Ullrich Lorenz

Planetary boundaries, sustainability transition and degrowth

Scientific paper • 2014

"Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar"

By: Bruno Kern

Scientific paper • 2014

The relevance of the phenomenon of Peak-Oil for the Degrowth paradigm

By: Christian Kerschner

Abstract: This paper is part of an effort to compile a vocabulary for Degrowth. Such a collection of concepts for the paradigm is important for the creation of a common language and knowledge base. This article is the first one, which tries to offer a universal definition of resource peaks and explains de main basics behind such phenomena. Peak-Oil is one of the most central elements in the...

Scientific paper • 2014

The Resource Cap Coalition - Advocating for policy tools, which set limits to unsustainable consumption and production

By: Veronika Kiss

Abstract: The Resource Cap Coalition - Advocating for policy tools, which set limits to unsustainable consumption and production Special Session: Respecting planetary boundaries while enhancing the well-being of all Today we face growing global competition over resources and price increase, which hits the poorest the most mainly in impoverished countries, but also in the rich. Policy efforts...

Scientific paper • 2014

DEGROWTH AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

By: Emanuele Leonardi

Abstract: The paper aims at constructively criticize Degrowth's reliance on the physical limits to growth as a discursive tool to undermine the growth-oriented attitude of mainstream economics. By recuperating the critique of political economy, the paper investigates the shift in the value/nature relationship which has occurred since the environmental crisis has emerged as a political problem....

Scientific paper • 2014

The Absolute Reductions Project

By: Sylvia Lorek

Abstract: The REDUCTIONS project is designed to identify the potential for absolute resource and energy use reduction of production-consumption systems at all levels and to explore ways to realise this potential. While lots of ideas about reductions are made only few concrete examples of achieved reductions are documented. The REDUCTIONS project intends to fill this gap. It combines the...

Scientific paper • 2014