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Scientific paper • 2012

Eco-innovation as a Development Tool: Evidence from Latin America and Asia

Abstract: In the near future the access to basic needs in a world of 7 billion people will be strongly influenced by the 80% of humanity living in the so-called ‘developing world’. Their consumption patterns and their approach to sustainability will undoubtedly reshape the scenario of global economy. The understanding of the evolution of eco-innovation in the South of the world is crucial to...

Scientific paper • 2012

The Valley that accepts to drown but not to die – Environmental and social (in)justice along the Narmada River (Central India)

By: Daniela Del Bene

From the text: This paper is being written as a non-violent struggle is occuring in the Narmada Valley in Central India, where hundreds of villages face the threat of being flooded by the reservoir waters of the Omkareshwar Dam. More than 10 activists have been staying in the Narmada waters over the past ten days with water up to their necks. They are shouting slogans like “We will fight, we...

Scientific paper • 2012

Towards convergence

By: Philippe Léna

From the text: We can observe today a strong resistance to the idea of degrowth among emergent or developing countries. This proposal is often considered, among them, as a typical ideology of industrialized and rich countries. At national level, the idea of degrowth is denounced as a reactionary and upper class ideology. It is a well-known argument used by productivists, either from the right...

Scientific paper • 2012

Grabbing of natural resources and environmental justice: breaking the circle

By: Annalisa Stagni, Mani Tese

Abstract: The consumption pattern in the north requires an intensive exploitation of natural resources in the south of the world, making some countries totally depending from the sale of their natural resources. The global north needs to stop consumption without limits of our environment and people must be aware that these limits exist, due to the finiteness of our world. Our lifestyles have a...

Scientific paper • 2012

Reflexions about how to build a degrowth process in Brazil

By: Mildred Gustack Delambre, Alan Ainer Boccato-Franco, Edson Franco

Keywords: Solidarity Economy, Political strategy, participatory transition, degrowth process, social movements

Scientific paper • 2012

Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, buen vivir, sumaq kawsay and degrowth

By: Bob Thomson

Abstract: I show that understanding the limits to growth for our finite planet is slowly gaining currency due to the (mostly) European sustainable degrowth ‘movement’ and a plurinational Latin American cosmovision which is largely indigenous but also criollo. These visions challenge us to decolonize our minds, as well as our economies. I introduces a number of writers and perspectives on...

Scientific paper • 2012

Is the degrowth debate relevant to China?

By: Jin Xue, Petter Næss, Finn Arler

Abstract In industrialized countries, the idea of degrowth has emerged as a response to environmental, social, and economic crises. Realizing environmental limits to and failures of more than half a century of continual economic growth in terms of social progress and environmental sustainability, the degrowth paradigm calls for a downscaling of consumption and production for social equity and...

Position paper • 2011

Die inhumanen Wirkungen des Wachstums: Klimaflüchtlinge und Ressourcenkriege

By: Olaf Bernau, Tadzio Müller, Claudia Haydt, Simone Knapp

Audiomitschnitt und Thesenpapiere des Forums "Die inhumanen Wirkungen des Wachstums: Klimaflüchtlinge und Ressourcenkriege" auf dem Attac-Kongress "Jenseits des Wachstums" 2011 in Berlin. Mit Claudia Haydt, Olaf Bernau, Simone Knapp und Tadzio Müller. Moderation: Mona Bricke. Aus dem Programm: Auch wenn die Diskussionen über die Grenzen des Wachstums oft abstrakt erscheinen mögen, müssen...

Report • 2011

Buen Vivir - Recht auf gutes Leben

By: Thomas Fatheuer

HBS: Klimawandel, Finanz- und Armutskrisen und die nukleare Katastrophe in Japan drängen zur Suche nach Alternativen zum derzeitigen Produktions- und Konsummodell. In allen Debatten um zukunftsfähige Entwicklungen blitzen die Ideale einer solidarischeren Welt auf und der Wunsch nach Glück und einem guten Leben. Diskussionen darüber gibt es längst auch in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern. Eine...

Report • 2011

Globaler Klimaschutz: Klappe, die Siebzehnte

By: Tadzio Müller

Von der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen (Versagens). Standpunkte 39/2011 von Tadzio Müller Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Im südafrikanischen Durban trifft sich vom 28. November bis zum 10. Dezember zum 17. Mal die Vertragsstaatenkonferenz der UN-Klimarahmenkonvention, kurz als COP17 bezeichnet. Selbstgesetztes Ziel des Gipfels ist es, den globalen Klimaschutz auch nach dem Ende der ersten Phase des...

Report • 2011

Darf‘s ein bisschen mehr sein?

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Niko Paech, Alberto Acosta, Hans Diefenbacher, Joachim H. Spangenberg, Irmi Seidl, Konrad Raiser, Michael Frein, Johannes Küstner, Julia Rode, Julia Steffen, Mathis Wackernagel, Martin Gück, Nafisa Goga D ́Souza, Farida Akhter, Etienne Bazié, Agnes Abuom, Karin Bassler, Richard Brand, Ruth Gütter, Reinhard Loske

Von der Wachstumsgesellschaft und der Frage nach ihrer Überwindung Inhalt Vorwort: Wachstum. Ein Begriff hat Konjunktur Einleitung: Ausgewachsen? Von den Grenzen der Wachstumsgesellschaft - Michael Frein Kernthemen - Hat das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ausgedient? - Hans Diefenbacher - Die „peak everything“-Wirtschaft vorbereiten - Mathis Wackernagel - Die „Dritte Industrielle Revolution“ – ein...

Presentation • 2010

Promoting Traditional Knowledge Systems. Are current international policies on Intellectual Property Rights consistent with socially sustainable economic degrowth?

By: Joana Dias

Transcription of an poster session by Joana Dias at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Promoting Traditional Knowledge Systems. Are current international policies on Intellectual Property Rights consistent with socially sustainable economic degrowth?".

Presentation • 2010

Development alternatives from the South. A Ghanaian rural development example

By: Gaia Calligaris

Poster and transcription of an poster session by Gaia Calligaris at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Development alternatives from the South. A Ghanaian rural development example". Poster en francais

Presentation • 2010

Qamiri: What lessons can be learnt from indigenous peoples?

By: Francesca Chianese, Jampel Dell’Angelo

Poster and Transcription of an poster session by Francesca Chianese and Jampel Dell’Angelo at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Qamiri: What lessons can be learnt from indigenous peoples?".

Presentation • 2010

The movement for social technology in Latin-America

By: Ricardo T. Neder, Hernan Thomas

Poster and transcription of an poster session by Ricardo T. Neder and Hernan Thomas at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "The movement for social technology in Latin-America".

Presentation • 2010

Pachakuti: Indigenous Perspectives and Degrowth

By: Bob Thomson

Poster and transcription of an poster session by Bob Thomson at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Pachakuti: Indigenous Perspectives and Degrowth".

Presentation • 2010

Make Prosperity global: A holistic approach beyond quantitative degrowth

By: Donald Maclurcan

Poster by Donald Maclurcan at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Make Prosperity global: A holistic approach beyond quantitative degrowth".

Presentation • 2010

Anticooperation and Degrowth: Aiding through our Degrowth?

By: David Listar, Pau Miró

Poster by David Listar and Pau Miró at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Anticooperation and Degrowth: Aiding through our Degrowth?".

Misc • 2010

Politik des Hungers

By: Walden Bello

Zwischen 2006 und 2008 kam es in vielen sogenannten Entwicklungsländern vor dem Hintergrund steigender Nahrungsmittelpreise und Versorgungsengpässe wiederholt zu Protesten und Aufständen. Seinen Höhepunkt erreichte dieser Protestzyklus im Frühjahr 2008 mit Aufständen in etwa 30 Ländern. Die Zahl der Menschen, die sich die Grundlebensmittel nicht mehr leisten konnten, stieg allein in Asien um...

Educational paper • 2009

Energie ist Leben

By: Jörn Breiholz, Michael Netzhammer, Lisa Feldmann

Die Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) informiert in einer Broschüre für die Sekundarstufe I und II über nachhaltige Entwicklung und Armutsbekämpfung am Beispiel Bolivien. In den entwickelten Ländern ist es heute selbstverständlich, dass jeder Bürger jederzeit Zugang zu Energie hat. In Bolivien, das zu den ärmsten Ländern Lateinamerikas zählt, ist das nicht so. Dort müssen zwei...