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Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Weal. The reorientation of well-being

Presentation by György Folk Degrowth may appear for the majority in the developed world a sacrifice of the human comfort we live in, a loss of the present standard of life or well-being. Weal proposes a radical reorientation of our understanding about the human good. Biological and social research produced a multitude of partial results that shed light on how humans live well. Equating the...

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...

Scientific paper • 2015

Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever

By: Samuel Alexander

The publisher: In this second volume of collected essays, Samuel Alexander develops the provocative ideas contained in 'Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits'. Given that the global economy in in gross ecological overshoot, Alexander argues that the richest nations need to transcend consumer culture and initiate a 'degrowth' process of planned economic contraction. To...

Misc • 2015

Das Buch NUR

By: Hans E. Widmer

Inhalt: Wie schrumpfen ohne auf die Nase zu fallen? 5 Mit einem andern Wachstum das Schrumpfen finanzieren 11 Wirtschaft. Wessen Wirtschaft? 15 Was heisst da «smart»? 21 Ein neuer New Deal für die Schweiz? 27 Wer macht mit? 36 Erwähnte Literatur 41 Anhang 42

Misc • 2015

Innovation – Exnovation

By: Luise Tremel, Martin Schweighofer, Cordula Kropp, Michael Kunkis, Jiska Gojowczyk, Franziska Engels, Martin David, Daniel Belling, Sophia Alcantara, Sandra Wassermann, Amrit Bruns, Maximilian Schmies, Maria Seewald, Sebastian Johann, Franziska Vaessen, Sarah Schmitz, Lenard Gunkel, Moritz Boddenberg, Alexander Kleinschrodt

Über Prozesse des Abschaffens und Erneuerns in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation Der Verlag: Das Zauberwort Innovation beherrscht nicht nur die öffentlichen Debatten über nachhaltige Entwicklung sondern auch den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs um gesellschaftliche Nachhaltigkeitstransformation. Das Antonym Exnovation, d.h. die Abschaffung von Altem, ist dagegen kaum gebräuchlich und nur...

Misc • 2015

Zur Durchsetzungsfähigkeit von Suffizienzstrategien. Eine Analyse auf der Grundlage von Ansätzen der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie

By: Christine Lenz

Der Verlag: Das Konzept einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung hat sich mittlerweile zu einem omnipräsenten Ansatz entwickelt. Obwohl anerkannt wird, dass zur Förderung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung sowohl Effizienz-, Konsistenz- als auch Suffizienzstrategien von Belang sind, finden sich insbesondere in der Umsetzung von Suffizienzstrategien bislang nur wenig überzeugende Ansätze. Oftmals wird...

Scientific paper • 2015

Transformative Potenziale von Unternehmen, die nicht wachsen wollen

By: Jana Gebauer, Heike Mewes

Herausgeber_innen: Sozial-ökologischer Wandel erfordert eine radikale Veränderung unserer Märkte durch nachhaltige Angebote. Die Annahme, dass hierfür die guten Unternehmen bloß wachsen müssten, greift aber zu kurz. Postwachstumsunternehmen verändern Märkte und Wirtschaftsweisen auch, wenn sie selbst nicht wachsen wollen.

Scientific paper • 2015

Die Subsistenzperspektive - eine Umorientierung zum Guten Leben für alle

By: Johanna Biesenbender, Sigrid Gerl, Johann Strube und Monika Thuswald

Teaser: Im Gegensatz zur Profitorientierung des Kapitalismus beschreibt Subsistenzorientierung das Streben nach allem, was für ein zufriedenes und erfülltes Leben notwendig ist. Abstract: Die Subsistenzperspektive beschreibt einen Blick auf Vergangenheit und Gegenwart sowie eine konkrete Vorstellung der Zukunft, die das Gute Leben für alle im Mittelpunkt hat. Im Gegensatz zur...

Scientific paper • 2014

The Proposal of Degrowth and the Energy Issue: A Fabulist Presentation of the Literature Review

By: Sandrine Cuvillier

Abstract: This article revisits the famous fables of Jean de La Fontaine to illustrate key concepts and proposals of degrowth and its close ties with the energy issue. Through the curiosity of a hummingbird, we question the dominant paradigm reflected in unsustainable existing patterns of energy production and consumption. We introduce, in a simple way, the main ideas and references of current...

Scientific paper • 2014

A historical exploration of ruralist ideology in Spain and its importance for the degrowth and democracy debate

By: Santiago Gorostiza

degrowth, autonomy, democracy, fascism, ruralism, Spain

Scientific paper • 2014

Dimensions in sufficiency behavior

By: Laura Henn

Abstract: Sufficiency is a strategy that aims at a collectively reduced consumption of goods and services with the aim to respect the ecological boundaries. The realization of the strategy lies within the individual sphere albeit structural and and other contextual factors are important to facilitate sufficiency. Thus, a psychological approach was chosen to investigate the properties of a...

Scientific paper • 2014

Buddhist Economics beyond Schumacher - How can contemporary research on Buddhist Economics inform degrowth- approaches?

By: Katharina Hirschbrunn

Buddhist Economics, Sufficiency, Feminist Economics, Work, Employment

Scientific paper • 2014

Reducing Energy Dependence at Urban Scale as an Aspect of Degrowth

By: Andrea Immendoerfer, Markus Winkelmann, Oliver Parodi, Collette Waitz

energy technologies, renewable energy, energy efficiency, sufficiency, neighbourhoods, rebound

Scientific paper • 2014

Scenarios on energy sufficiency and societal transformations: changing lifestyles and social structures to make energy savings

By: M Le Dû

Abstract: Lifestyles and social structures have a significant impact on energy consumption. Governments are focusing their strategies on renewable energies for energy supply and on energy efficiency to reduce energy demand, but energy transition is strongly linked to wider societal change. By creating prospective energy scenarios, the aim of this research focused on energy sufficiency was to...

Scientific paper • 2014

Transition road maps – an investigative approach to map the daily life consumption of individuals

By: Melanie Lukas, Christa Liedtke, Jola Welfens, Alexandra Seibt, Lisa Geringhoff

social practice, consumer behaviour, sufficiency, sustainable consumption, transition

Scientific paper • 2014

Frugal Value: Designing Business for a Crowded Planet

By: Carina Millstone

Abstract: This paper concerns new business models for de-growth and the steady state economy. It argues that business models need to be developed that drive products and services with the attributes of efficiency and sufficiency. It identifies four such models, including new approaches to product creation and retail, a shift from ownership to access, a shift from products to services and new...

Scientific paper • 2014

Ecological Basic Income – an Acceleration Brake

By: Ulrich Schachtschneider

Abstract: An ecological basic income is one financed through eco-taxes. This principle could both combine the necessary rise in costs of environmental goods with redistribution of income and link sufficiency with different lifestyle norms. Moreover, it can help to switch off the acceleration motors which are responsible for the ongoing social acceleration in modern societies, according to the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Going beyond efficiency: including altruistic motives in behavioral models for sustainability transitions to address suffiency

By: Niko Schäpke, Felix Rauschmayer

Abstract: Sustainability transitions require altered individual behaviors. Policies aiming to make people change their consumption behavior are designed according to efficiency, consistency, and sufficiency principles. Taking into account shortcomings of the first two principles, this paper specifically addresses the sufficiency principle. Sufficiency policies are not very popular due to the...

Scientific paper • 2014

A full life in a degrowth society – the case for an unconditional basic income (UBI) and against modesty

By: Robert Ulmer

unconditional basic income, modesty, sufficiency

Misc • 2014

The Politics of Sufficiency: Making it easier to live the Good Life

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Uwe Schneidewind

How to make sufficency go mainstream, proposals for politics, an attempt to bring sufficency into the political arena. ISBN-13: 978-3-86581-690-0 Original published as "Damit gutes Leben einfacher wird: Perspektiven einer Suffizienzpolitik"