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Scientific paper • 2014

Agroecology as alternative(s) to development: A South African Case Study

Abstract: According to Auturo Escobar, development and capitalism have become the most significant ideas to shape social life and these ideas are directly related to the multiple crises our planet faces. Post-development theories offer alternative narratives to the traditional development notions of universal knowledge and progress. Yet, the mainstream development discourse remains and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Rewarding with a licence to commit ecocide: High incomes and climate change

By: Olli Tammilehto

Abstract: According to many studies greenhouse gas emissions attributable to a person or to a household increase with growing income. On the global level, a well-paid quarter of the population generates around three quarters of the total carbon dioxide emissions. The suffering from the disastrous effects of climate change, on the other hand, is distributed in the opposite direction. The...

Scientific paper • 2014

Equity within Limits: introducing Convergence Mapping and initiatives with Contraction as well as Equity processes

By: Edina Vadovics

Sustainability; Contraction and Convergence

Scientific paper • 2014

Fair Trade Alternative Trade Organizations as a degrowth-friendly business model

By: Valerio Verrea

Abstract: This paper focuses on the specific features of the Alternative Trade Organizations (ATOs) developed within the Fair Trade system. They are an example of an organizational business model able to create and alternative market where social and ethical aspects are prioritized over profit-seeking. Their example offers important insights about the possibility to create a degrowth-friendly...

Scientific paper • 2014

Democratic values as a debatable legitimation of growth

By: Tobias Vogel

growth legitimation by democracic values, comparison of status, unequality, cultural enforcement of growth, consumption

Scientific paper • 2014

Upward Mobility in Degrowth Societies

By: Stephan Voswinkel

Abstract: Upward social mobility is a promise of modernity, but as a zero-sum game it includes potential for social conflict. Economic growth could moderate conflicting social aspirations for a long time, therefore upward mobility was understood universally. As a result of the lack of growth, the conflictual nature of upward mobility comes more to the fore. The lecture explicates various...

Scientific paper • 2014

Interdependencies between Ethnic Inequality and the Success of Climate Change Policy Making – the Case of Guyana

By: Constanze Weiske

Abstract: Global climate change is the most pressing environmental issue the world society has to tackle in this day and age. Although the international Framework Convention on Climage Change (UNFCCC) has been established in 1992 in order to mitigate climate change, substantial progress is not made yet. In order to identify the reasons for that unsatisfactory situation, researchers has mainly...

Scientific paper • 2014

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

By: Federico Demaria, Giacomo D’Alisa, Giorgos Kallis (ed.)

Anti-utilitarianism, Bio-economics, Environmental Justice, Simplicity, Conviviality, Autonomy, Care, Commons, Dépense

Interview • 2014

Degrowth: Leben und Wirtschaften jenseits des Wachstums (Teil 1)

By: Kontext TV

Quelle: www.kontext-tv.de   Gäste: Naomi Klein, Journalistin und Buchautorin ("No Logo", "Die Schock-Strategie", "This Changes Everything") Barbara Muraca, Philosophin an der Universität Jena, Autorin des Buches "Gut Leben. Eine Gesellschaft jenseits des Wachstums" Nnimmo Bassey, Vorstand von Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Träger des "Alternativen...

Interview • 2014

Degrowth: Leben und Wirtschaften jenseits des Wachstums (Teil 2)

By: Kontext TV

Quelle: www.kontext-tv.de   Gäste: Barbara Muraca, Philosophin an der Universität Jena, Autorin des Buches "Gut Leben. Eine Gesellschaft jenseits des Wachstums" Michel Bauwens, Gründer und Direktor der Peer-to-Peer Foundation (P2P) Tony Greenham, New Economics Foundation, London / Transition Network Sarah Ackerbauer, Transition Town / Dresden im Wandel Benjamin Best, Wuppertal Institut...

Report • 2014

Mehr oder weniger? Wachstums- und Entwicklungsdebatten in Asien

By: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: . . . Fast überall in Asien sind noch erhebliche Investitionen in Infrastruktur, Bildung und Sozialsysteme notwendig, um die Situation der Menschen zu verbessern oder ihnen gar einen Wohlstand zu ermöglichen, wie ihn die westlichen Gesellschaften vorleben. Wie sollen diese Mittel erwirtschaftet werden, und was bedeutet dies für die globale Entwicklung? Werden die...

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Basic income

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Basic income at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 > Universal Basic Income (UBI) would improve social justice and decrease inequalities which is a precondition for degrowth. > UBI would provide free space for discussing and testing meaningful lifestyles and production, and re-appropriating autonomy and democracy. > UBI would...

Position paper • 2014

Degrowth and Unconditional Basic Income

By: Ronald Blaschke, Stefan Füsers

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Basic income.

Position paper • 2014

Unconditional basic income, human rights-based equality and economic degrowth

By: Werner Rätz, Dagmar Paternoga

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Basic income.

Position paper • 2014

Where does responsibility begin and end?

By: Antje Schaffartzik

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Consumption.

Position paper • 2014

A postgrowth society will have to be democratic or will not be at all

By: Barbara Muraca

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Democracy.

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Reproduction and Work

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Reproduction and Work at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Proposals for Transformation > Reduction in paid working time. > Dissociation of income from work, and work from identity. > Greater recognition of unpaid work (self reproduction, household reproduction, community reproduction). > Strengthening autonomous collective...

Presentation • 2014

The food challenge. Struggling for just and ecological food systems

By: Reinhild Benning, Christiana Schuler, Lucía Gallardo, Eric Holt-Giménez (via video), Jan Urhahn

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Reinhild Benning, Christiana Schuler, Lucía Gallardo, Eric Holt-Giménez (via video) Facilitation: Jan Urhahn From the conference programme: No matter who we are, we all share the need for food. Looking at the way food is produced, treated and...

Presentation • 2014

Unconditional Basic Autonomy by income or infrastructure?

By: Werner Rätz, Vincent Liegey, Dagmar Paternoga, Margit Appel

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Vincent Liegey, Werner Rätz and Margit Appel Facilitation: Dagmar Paternoga From the conference programme: The essentials of the idea of an unconditional basic income are clearly related to a degrowth society. A basic income provides autonomy for...

Report • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Umkehr marsch ...

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Einführungsveranstalltung zur Wachstumskritik" mit Dagmar Paternoga und Hermann Mahler. Aus dem Bericht: . . . Auf unserem endlichen Planeten mit seinen begrenzten Ressourcen, so begann Dagmar Paternoga, ist Wachstum ohne Ende nicht möglich. In vielen Bereichen ist die ökologische Tragfähigkeit der Erde bereits überschritten,...