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Scientific paper • 2014

Cooperative Labor Beyond Growth

By: Jukka Peltokoski

Abstract: Economic growth in capitalism is structurally tied to the organization of labour as wage work. In capitalism an employee produces surplus for an employer to fulfill the economic anticipation invested in the firm. This 'growth imperative' is built inside the form of wage work. In the contemporary era of permanent economic and ecological crisis, the capitalistic growth has to be...

Scientific paper • 2014

Degrowth, Commons and Convivial Technology

By: Victor Petit

Abstract: For many people, the way of degrowth supposes to leave the urban lifestyle. Instead, we would like to show that it is possible (and more realistic) to understand the degrowth in an industrial context. For this, we will follow two objectives. The first one is to answer to the critics of the concept of degrowth, through the current reflections on the so-called commons ; the second...

Scientific paper • 2014

Land-grabbing procedures and social resistance in the European continent. The case of Chalkidiki (Greece) movement against gold mining.

By: Konstantinos Petrakos

Abstract: Subject of this research are the transformations of space due to the operation of mining activities in the territorial unity of the North East (NE) Chalkidiki. The changes occurring in the field of application of the extractive development model, are investigated. The procedures of changes in social relations of mining activities in the territorial unity of the North East (N.E.)...

Scientific paper • 2014

Potentials of the degrowth debate for socio-ecological transformation

By: Panos Petridis

Abstract: As the concept of socio-ecological transformation is increasingly gaining momentum in both academic research and policy circles, contributions from the degrowth debate come very timely. This paper analyses the recent developments in the degrowth literature, highlighting its visions as regards transformation, by presenting its ontological assumptions, actors and strategies, as well as...

Scientific paper • 2014

The present day monetary and financial systems: What´s wrong and what must be changed for a post-growth economy

By: Helge Peukert

Abstract: A basic question will be which elements and factors of the present-day financial and monetary sectors are drivers for economic growth and in how far they must and could be changed in favor of a degrowth economy and which elements of the present system might be preserved. I will present basic facts, structural relationships, institutional details and recent developments and formulate...

Scientific paper • 2014

The experience of the Forum for Commons and Solidarity Economy in Friuli Venezia Giulia: new proposal for alternative economic models

By: Lucia Piani, Nadia Carestiato, Ferruccio Nilia

Abstract: Faced with the economic crisis that is affecting in particular the Western countries, in October 2012 in Friuli Venezia Giulia region (Italy) began the experience of the "Forum for Commons and Solidarity Economy". It is configured as a territorial laboratory in which different areas of knowledge, different subjects and different experiences confront each other with the purpose of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Critique and the Organization of Production

By: Nina Pohler

New Spirit of Capitalism, Artistic Critique, Social Critique, Growth Critique, Coordination of Work Strategies for transformation

Scientific paper • 2014

Equity and emissions. How are household emissions distributed, what are their drivers and what are possible implications for future climate mitigation?

By: Jonas Pohlmann, Nils Ohlendorf

Abstract: This paper analyses the distribution of CO2 emissions over households in Germany, identifies their socio-economic drivers and discusses the policy implications. On the basis of an environmentally extended input output model, the CO2 intensities for consumption-based emissions from different categories are calculated and allocated to the expenditure data of a representative survey of...

Scientific paper • 2014

The distribution and drivers of CO2 emissions on a consumption basis and implications for a degrowth economy – the case of Germany

By: Jonas Pohlmann, Nils Ohlendorf

Abstract: This paper analyses the distribution of CO2 emissions over households in Germany, identifies their socio-economic drivers and discusses the policy implications. On the basis of an environmentally extended input output model, the CO2 intensities for consumption-based emissions from different categories are calculated and allocated to the expenditure data of a representative survey of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Education for Life and the Free Learning Communities for Life

By: Claudia Gómez Portugal

Abstract: The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities, the environmental, social and existential crisis, among others, increasingly evident the unsustainable of the development model. Address this systemic crisis involves recognizing the need to create new structures and forms of organization. Its necessary a new education to generate a genuine change, mainly...

Scientific paper • 2014

Education for Life: participation in the transformation of a common

By: Claudia Gómez Portugal

Abstract: The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities. Increasingly often environmental, social and existential crisis among others, evidence unsustainability of the development model. Face this systemic crisis involves recognizing the need to create new structures and organizational forms that include a new education, that primarily respond the paradigm...

Scientific paper • 2014

What have traditional hunter-gatherers got to say about happiness?

By: Aili Pyhälä

Abstract: The last few decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of studies addressing the concept of “happiness”. However, the existing literature is highly biased to a) income-related studies; b) modern, industrialized societies; and c) single case studies. There is scarce research on cross-cultural understandings of happiness, particularly from small-scale, preindustrial...

Scientific paper • 2014

Reflections on ‘society’ and ‘space’ in the degrowth debate

By: Dorothee Quade

society-space relations, geography

Scientific paper • 2014

THE MYTH OF PROGRESS AND SCIENTIFIC ONTOLOGY

By: Antonio S. Vélez R.

myth, ontology, axiology

Scientific paper • 2014

Dangers of promoting ultra-water-saver-showers. Considering the Cautionary Principle and the Khazzoom–Brookes postulate.

By: Mario Buenfil R.

Abstract: In developed and developing nations household water consumption increased exponentially during the last and present century; the same can be said of the individual water footprint of each inhabitant. The most worrisome part is not individual households and personal consumption, but the collective, aggregate, ones. There are nations in grave overshoot not only considering their total...

Scientific paper • 2014

Economic growth and socio-ecological struggles in Bolivia

By: Isabella Radhuber

Abstract: Bolivia registers internationally sensational economic growth rates. From 1998 to 2005 the Gross National Product increased by 2.9%, from 2006 to 2009 by 5%, and in 2013 by an estimated 6.5%. Though economic growth is linked to new socio-political measures, economic growth also – as is the main argument of my contribution – goes along with severe socio-ecological implications for the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Growth model, developmentalism and way forwards for degrowth in Bangladesh

By: Arup Rahee

Abstract: Bangladesh has been a successful laboratory case for hegemonic growth model development practices by the developmentalist forces and their native allies and failed the people for their quest for affluence and a collective better life. Growth model has been a tool for sustaining poverty through hegemonic social and cultural institutions and practices. Based on Bangladesh experience and...