Proceedings of the First International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity

All papers from the 1st international Degrowth Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity are available together in one document. Here you find the content with titles and authors:

Historical panel: from growth critique to degrowth - Introduction to Georgescu-Roegen and Degrowth (Jacques Grinevald) - Why environmental sustainability can most probably not be attained with growing production (Roefie Hueting) - Conceptual roots of degrowth (Fabrice Flipo) - Maroscopis rebound effects as argument for economic growth (Francois Schneider) - Decrecimiento sostenible - sustainable degrowth (Joan Martinez Alier) - Les services ne sont pas "la" solution à la crise écologique (Jean Gadrey) Special applications - Increasing solid waste flows and the emergence of new transnationals (Alexandre Duran-i-Grant) - Le mythe des effets positifs de la vitesse en agglomération (Frédéric Héran) - Gastronomic Sciences: Slow Food Revolution versus Gene Revolution (Bruno Scaltriti) - Decroissance des procédés Harber-Bosch (Francois Schneider) - Enabling degrowth at the neighbourhood level. Analysis of the cohousing movement (Matthieu Lietaert) - Our Daily Bread - Eataly and the Reinvention of Supermarket (Tommaso Venturini) - Tourisme et Décroissance: de la critique à l'utopie? (Philippe Bourdeau, Libéra Berthelot) - Gold unsustainability (Leire Urkidi Azkarraga) Second panel session 2.1 New indicators - What will be the indicators of tomorrow? (Arnaud Du Crest) - Economic de-growth analysed in Georgescu-Roegen's theoretical framework of the Economic Process with special reference to the System of Accounts for Global Entropy Production, SAGE-P (Anthony Friend) - Bonheurs de la décroissance (Claude Llena) - A Simplified Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for France, 1980-2006 (Brent Bleys) 2.2 Degrowth or steady-state? - Growth and sustainable development (Joachim Spangenberg) - Economic De-growth vs. the Steady State Economy: complements or contradiction (Christian Kerschner) - GDP growth, consumption and investment composition: feasible transition paths towards energy sustainability (Simone D'Alessandro, Tommaso Luzzati, Mario Morroni) 2.3. Debund effect - Country carbon rationing (Alcott Blake) - De-growth for Earth Survival (Raoul Weiler) 2.4 Southern perspectives - Overcoming Contradictions between Growth and Sustainability: Institutional Innovation in the BRICS (Peter H. May) - Is the economy (de)materializing? A comparison of Germany, China and Spain (Vincent Moreau, Gregor Meerganz von Medeazza) Roundtable: from academia and civil society to policy - Contribution from italian civil society (Sara Vegni) Thrid panel session 3.1 Sharing work - An environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis of Italy: A scale approach for sustainable de-growth (Valeria Andreoni, Marco Duriavig) - The Basic Income, a factor of degrowth (Baptiste Mylondo) - Career guidance and de-growth (Arnaud Du Crest) - A human rights based political economy for a de-growth based equitable developement (Manuel Couret Branco) 3.2 Production degrowth - The Precautionary Principle as a Framework for Sustainable Design: Attempts to Counter the Rebound Effects of Production and Consumption (Carmela Cucuzzella, Pierre De Coninck) - Technology and the Growth Problematique (Thomas Schauer) 3.3 Redistribution - Globalization, localization and the cost of complexity - a network approach (Jean-Marc Deltron, Nicolas Louchet) 3.4 What statutes for economic actors? - Lose less instead of win more: The failure of decoupling and perspectives of a redirected competition in a de-growth economy (Volker Mauerhofer) - De-growth as unlocking socio-technical systems: an application to mass motorization (Gerardo Marletto) - Towards a "degrowth society" - the labor question in problematics of transition (Alain Arnaud, Michel Barrillon, Jacques Luzi) Culture change panel - Why are we growth-addicted? The hard way towards degrowth in the involutionary western development path (Pascal van Griethuysen) - Degrowth vs. sustainable development: how to open the space of ontological negotiation? (Grégoire Wallenborn) - Less is more: The influence of aspirations and priming on well-being (Astrid Matthey) - Psychological barriers to de-growth: values mediate the relationship between well-being and income (Saamah Abdallah, Sam Thompson) - The anthropological stakes of degrowth (Onofrio Romano) - The finality of degrowth and its relation with justice (Paul Frédéric Piguet, Johan van Niel) - Environmental Politics and Actual Degrowth. The issue of a sustainable financing of care activities, public goods and commons. (Maurizio Ruzzene) Change of economics institutions? - On the way towards a degrowth society: a review of transformation scenarios and desirable visions of the future (Ernst Schriefl, Andreas Exner, Christian Lauk, Konstantin Kulterer) - Searching for a Shared Imaginary - A Systematic Approach to Degrowth and Politics (Mauro Bonaiuti) - Systems challanges: profit, growth, and speed: results from the SYSCONS study (Robert L. Nemeskeri, Peter Bodo, Marton Herczeg, Oksana Mont) - The De-Growth Economy and Lifestyles (Brian Davey) - L'Asem, un outil pour aujourd'hui? (Gilles Luquet, Jean-Marc Luquet) Democracy for degrowth - Let's liberate our economies! From offer back to demand (Willem Hoohendijk) - Sufficient, Closed-loop Agricultural Production in a Degrowth Economy (Kealan Gell) - La décroissance soutenable face à la question du "comment"? - Une remise en perspective par les processus de transition et leurs conditions de réalisation (Yannick Rumpala) - Why denial and inaction? (Yves Cochet)