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Scientific paper • 2014

Need and Use of Participatory Procedures to ensure Compliance and Legitimation of Codes of Conduct for Governing Nanotechnology's Risks

By: Beate-Josefine Luber

Abstract: The contribution problematizes the need and use of democratic procedures to ensure compliance and legitimation of voluntary self-imposed corporate norms of behavior. The starting point of this argument is the challenge of regulating nanotechnology's risks that are not adequately governed by governmental policy instruments. Corporations try to absorb the risks of manufacturing...

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

Measuring transformation towards a green economy in Germany

By: Christian Lutz, Rol, Zieschank, Thomas Drosdowski

Measuring a green economy, Set of indicators, Scenarios of energy transformation in Germany

Scientific paper • 2014

THE 5-HOUR WEEK

By: Jürgen Manneck

Abstract: Why is global capitalism incapable of providing the millions of unemployed with work? From a social perspective, enormous wealth is simply running through our fingers, since many people are forced into unemployment by the mechanisms of capitalism. In 1995 a conference of 500 top managers, politicians and economists came to the conclusion that at the start of the 21st centruy only...

Scientific paper • 2014

THE PRACTICE AT PSYCHOANALYSES (FREE CLINICS AND SOCIAL ONES) THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (DEGROWTH POLICY): A DIALOGUE WITHIN THE ACTOR-NET THEORY

By: Lina Raquel Marinho, Edna Chernicharo

Abstract: This essay intends to discuss a new concept of subject and subjectivity considering the experience in the past at Vienna on the Free Clinic psychoanalyses practices and treatments, by Sigmund Freud, considering the concepts, debates and discussions on the actor-net theory theme and science and at least but not last considering the so called Degrowth Movement and its whole arena of...

Scientific paper • 2014

From “The Limits to Growth” to “Degrowth”: Discourses of Critique of Growth in the Crises of the 1970s and 2008

By: Maria Markantonatou

Abstract: The presentation examines two discourses of growth critique that arose during the crisis of the Keynesian growth model in the 1970s and during the current economic crisis respectively. It analyzes in particular how these discourses deal with questions of labor, population and society in the context of the two crises. Compared are the debates surrounding the publication of The Limits...

Scientific paper • 2014

From building resistance to building alternatives – post-extractivist perspectives from below

By: Facundo Martín

Development, Territorial sovereignty, Radical democracy, Reappropriation, Argentina, Brazil

Scientific paper • 2014

Extractivism, neocolonialism and redistribution

By: Esperanza Martinez

Abstract: Our era is characterized by the end of easy-to-extract oil reserves. Unconventional and risky extraction techniques are proliferating. Oil extraction as motor of an economy has always had significant consequences for social and political organization, which are best understood if one looks at the different stages of oil exploitation, from prospection through production, processing and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Alternative economic practices in the rural Catalonia

By: Emma Soy Massoni, Joana Conill, Diego Varga, Josep Pintó

Abstract: The present study describes alternative economy practices that are being developed in rural areas by individuals who live on the margins, in whole or in significant part, of the capitalist economic behavior patterns, and live according to rules and values that they have built. The observations were performed in a group of rural farmers living in the region of Alt Empordà (Girona,...

Scientific paper • 2014

Halbwertszeiten - Psychoanalytische Überlegungen zu „blinder Wachstumsabhängigkeit“ anhand der psychodynamischen Historie und mentalen Präsenz von Atomenergie

By: Angela Mauss-Hanke

Abstract: Es versteht sich von selbst, daß Gier nichts ist, was wir mühsam erlernen müssen. Sozialpsychologische Studien zeigen: wo es viel zu holen gibt, wird viel geholt – unabhängig davon, ob das langfristig klug ist oder nicht oder anderen schadet oder nicht. Diesem Impuls nicht nachzugehen, also Verzicht zu leisten, ist genau das: eine menschliche Kultur-Leistung, die uns etwas abfordert,...

Scientific paper • 2014

Green economy and its others: conservation, scarcity, and buen vivir

By: Kathleen McAfee

Abstract: Green economy aims to save globalized capitalism from economic crisis by muting its ecologically and socially destructive consequences and surmounting conflicts rooted in worsening global inequalities. Its advocates endorse markets in nature as both a conservation strategy and a means to revive economic growth in a context of perceived resource shortages and scarce ecological space....

Scientific paper • 2014

Akteure des Wandels – am Beispiel des Transition Town Movements

By: Julia Mertens

Vorstellung der Diplomarbeit zum Thema: Akteure des Wandels – am Beispiel des Transition Town Movements Abstract: Seit etwa 2006 breitet sich ausgehend von Groß Britanien eine Bewegung aus, die als eine Umweltbewegung mit neuen Ansätzen bezeichnet werden kann: Die Transition Town Bewegung. In dieser geht es im Vergleich zu früheren Umweltbewegungen (etwa denen der 70´er Jahren in Deutschland)...

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

Next level carbon cycling, quantifying the carbon recycling potential

By: Vincent Moreau, Frédéric Meylan, Suren Erkman

Abstract: Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial activities have accumulated in the atmosphere in excess of 880 gigatons (Gt) since preindustrial times. The conventional approaches to climate change, market based mechanisms, energy efficiency or technology have proved less efficient than recent economic downturns at curbing the emission rate. We propose to account for the atmospheric stock as...

Scientific paper • 2014

Territorial fragmentation and urban segregation in the West of the Metropolitan Zone of México City 1990-2010

By: Orlando Eleazar Moreno, Guadalupe García

Abstract: At the present moment the capitalist development, the big cities have done the transformation of their economical dinamism, specially as a consequence of the industrialization due to the capitalist accumulation which have restructured the world economy and restablished territories. In Mexico it is expressed in the metropolization. Therefore, the objetive of this work is to analyse the...

Scientific paper • 2014

ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: DIALECTICAL INTERRELATION IN POLITICAL ECONOMY’S CONTEXT

By: Oleksandra Moskalenko

advanced economic development, sustainable development, concept, strategy, self-organization, dialectics

Scientific paper • 2014

Financialisation and the ambivalence of capitalist growth

By: Julian Müller

Abstract: This 2013 paper – an updated version of which I would like to present at the conference – examines the ambivalence of capitalist growth and accumulation, that is, the simultaneous combination of dynamic and restrictive tendencies. At the most abstract level, this ambivalence is related to the existence of three different forms or circuits of capital. At a more concrete level, the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Consumption Profile and Support Area

By: Enrique Ortega, Sayoko Nakajima

Abstract: The ecological footprint method proposed by Merkel (2009) was used to calculate the support area related a population consumption profile in Ibiúna county, São Paulo state in Brazil. It was verified that when family income grows the support area becomes greater. The excessive consumption of products that are not primary necessities and wealthy lifestyle which leads some families to...