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Presentation • 2018

Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability

By: Federico Demaria

Keynote speech by ecological economist Federico Demaria at “Well-being beyond GDP growth? Panel Discussion on Post-growth in the Era of Multiple Crises.” Organized by the European Commission (Brussels, 22nd February, 12.30).

Scientific paper • 2018

Macroeconomics Without Growth - Sustainable Economies in Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian Theories

By: Steffen Lange

How can we organize our economies without growth? "Macroeconomics Without Growth' provides a comprehensive understanding of how non-growing economies can be sustainable. With this book, Steffen Lange brings new momentum into the debate on post-growth, degrowth and steady state economies. The book delves deep into economic theory to understand how a macro-economy can operate without growth. By...

Interview • 2018

Paech: "Wir sollten nur 20 Stunden arbeiten"

By: Nico Paech

Einleitung: Niko Paech propagiert ein Wirtschaftssystem, das zur Versorgung des menschlichen Bedarfs nicht auf Wachstum angewiesen ist. Im DW-Gespräch erläutert der Ökonom die Vorteile für Mensch und Umwelt.

Scientific paper • 2018

The Naturalisation of Growth: Marx, the Regulation Approach and Bourdieu

By: Max Koch

Bourdieu; Growth paradigm; Marx; capitalism; degrowth; naturalisation; postgrowth; regulation approach

Misc • 2018

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice

By: Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, Gordon Walker

Description: The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice presents an extensive and cutting-edge introduction to the diverse, rapidly growing body of research on pressing issues of environmental justice and injustice. With wide-ranging discussion of current debates, controversies, and questions in the history, theory, and methods of environmental justice research, contributed by over 90...

Misc • 2018

Tourism and Degrowth: Impossibility Theorem or Path to Post-Capitalism?

By: Robert Fletcher, Asunción Blanco-Romero, Macià Blázquez-Salom, Ivan Murray

Introduction: “Touristification” of cities is increasingly met by discontent of local communities deprived of their places: overtourism is a real issue and we must face the challenge of rethinking and remaking one of the world’s biggest industries. The time has come to start talking seriously about how to bring tourism and degrowth together

Misc • 2018

At the Intersection of Permaculture and Degrowth

By: Lucie Bardos

Misc • 2018

Ecotopia: An Elitist Liberal Utopia?

By: Niklas Lollo

Comment from Niklas Lollo on the novel "Ecotopia" by Ernest Callenbach. Introduction: Since 1972, Ecotopia has inspired many to envision, and perhaps even foster, a more ecological society. In Ernest Callenbach’s novel, we are transported to a contemporary America, albeit an America that has been torn in two through civil war. This time the war wasn’t over slavery, but rather ecological...

Misc • 2018

Utilitarianism made for ‘Hard Times’ in Dickens’ England

By: Anya VerKamp

Comment from Anya VerKamp on the novel "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens. Introduction: Charles Dickens, an author witnessing firsthand the harsh impacts of the industrial revolution, wrote a novel that contains in it some of the themes still present in degrowth discourse today. His novel Hard Times demonstrates the invasion of utilitarianism and its economic implications into human...

Misc • 2018

movum - Heft 20: Kohleausstieg

By: Peter Hennicke, Damian Ludewig, Ottmar Edenhofer, , Susanne Götze, Jörg Staude, Susanne Schwarz, Svenja Schulze, Michael Vassiliadis, Jennifer Morgan, Christoph Zöpel, Manfred Fischedick, Patrick Graichen, Friederike Maier, Joachim Wille

Heft 20 des Magazins movum zum Thema Kohleausstieg. Kurzbeschreibung: Die Politik hat sich jahrelang vor der Auseinandersetzung um den notwendigen Ausstieg aus der Kohleverstromung gedrückt. Jetzt muss es schnell gehen. Das Heft als PDF Die Infografik als PDF

Misc • 2018

Work in a World Without Growth

By: Riccardo Mastini

A fixation with growth in economics has seen GDP increase in proportion to environmental damage. As planetary limits draw ever closer and are even being surpassed, such a model cannot be sustained. Riccardo Mastini explains how a job guarantee could open up the way to a sustainable economic model.

Report • 2018

Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency

By: Riccardo Mastini, Friends of the Earth Europe

“Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency” suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends—in particular to overconsumption—and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by Janez Potočnik (Co-chair of the International Resource Panel and former European Commissioner for the Environment)...

Misc • 2018

movum - Heft 19: Gesundheit

By: Michael Müller, Jörg Sommer, Angelika Claußen, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, Franz Daschner, Pamela Dörhöfer, Maria Finckh, Susanne Götze, Verena Kern, Jörg Staude, Alexandra Schneider, Susanne Schwarz

Heft 19 des Magazins movum zum Thema Gesundheit. Kurzbeschreibung: Die Umweltschäden holen die Menschen ein. Ohne Umweltpolitik kommt Gesundheitspolitik nicht mehr aus. Deshalb braucht es jetzt ein Bündnis. Das Heft als PDF. Die Infografik als PDF.

Misc • 2018

Rezension zu „Anders Wachsen“

By: Felicitas Sommer

Wie kann das Klima gerettet und Wohlstand global verteilt werden? „Anders wachsen!“ ist die Antwort von Autor*innen aus der postwachstumsbewegten Zivilgesellschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik in einem Sammelband. „Anders wachsen! Von der Krise der kapitalistischen Wachstumsgesellschaft und Ansätzen einer Transformation“ erschien dieses Jahr im oekom Verlag und wurde herausgegeben von Maximilian...

Educational paper • 2018

Degrowth and Environmental Justice Summer School 2018: Video Lecture #1

By: Brototi Roy, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos

Course intro (Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos); and Lecture + Q&A on the topic 'Power Dynamics, Inequalities, and Violence' (Brototi Roy)

Misc • 2018

Freie Geister

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Der große utopische Science-Fiction-Klassiker in kongenialer Neuübersetzung. Ursula K. LeGuins ›Freie Geister‹ ist eine der bedeutendsten Utopien des 20. Jahrhunderts, in der die Systemfrage – Kommunismus, Kapitalismus oder Anarchismus? – mit aller Deutlichkeit gestellt wird. Ältere Ausgaben sind unter den Titeln ›Planet der Habenichtse‹ und ›Die Enteigneten‹ erschienen. Der einzige Ort auf...

Scientific paper • 2018

Degrowth and Technology: Towards feasible, viable, appropriate and convivial imaginaries

By: Christian Kerschner, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Petra Wächter, Linda Nierling

Mainstream sustainability discourses are firmly built on the mantra that more technology leads to more economic growth, which in turn leads to more welfare and sustainability. With economic growth becoming ever more difficult and undesirable, and sustainability challenges ever more pressing, alternative post-growth and Degrowth discourses have gained momentum in the last decade. However, the...

Scientific paper • 2018

Sustainability, Wellbeing and the Posthuman Turn

By: Thomas S.J. Smith

This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it. Thomas Smith posits that environmentalism and sustainable development have become increasingly post-political, characterised by abstraction, and quantification to an unprecedented extent. As such, the book argues that our ways of measuring both the environment, such as through...

Misc • 2018

One decade of Degrowth International Conferences: Past, Present and Future

By: The Support Group of the International Degrowth Conferences

This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first international degrowth conference in Paris, 18-19 April 2008. This event introduced the originally French activist slogan décroissance into the English-speaking world and international academia as degrowth. This year we celebrate with three conferences: the current one in Malmö, the one in Mexico City from 3

Misc • 2018

Was hat der Kampf um den Hambacher Forst mit Degrowth zu tun?

By: Kai Kuhnhenn & Nina Treu

Degrowth bedeutet eine Abkehr von einem wachstums- und profitorientierten Wirtschaftssystem. Mittels einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation soll ein gutes Leben für alle möglich werden. Das bedeutet: die imperiale Lebensweise des globalen Nordens überwinden, Alternativen aufbauen und positive Erzählungen unserer möglichen Zukunft schaffen. Dazu gehört auch, Widerstand gegen unnütze...