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Scientific paper • 2013

Food for Change

Subtitle: The Politics and Values of Social Movements. The publisher: "Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat. Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits...

Scientific paper • 2013

The energetic metabolism of societies and the degrowth paradigm: analyzing biophysical constraints and realities

By: Alevgul H. Sorman, Mario Giampietro

Energetic metabolism; Societal metabolism; Net energy; IPAT; Degrowth

Scientific paper • 2013

Happy degrowth through more amateur economy

By: Jørgen S. Nørgård

Degrowth economy; Amateur economy; Labor productivity; Work sharing; Happiness; Sustainability

Scientific paper • 2013

‘Sustainable de-growth’ in agriculture and food: an agro-ecological perspective on Spain’s agri-food system (year 2000)

By: Manuel González de Molina, Juan Infante Amate

De-growth; Life cycle analysis; Agri-food system; Ecological economics; Organic farming; Agro-ecology

Scientific paper • 2013

Degrowth and public health in Cuba: lessons from the past?

By: Iris Borowy

Cuba; Economic crisis; Special period; Public health; Urban agriculture; Social capital

Scientific paper • 2013

Social enterprises and non-market capitals: a path to degrowth?

By: Nadia Johanisova, Tim Crabtree, Eva Franková

Social enterprise; Degrowth; Non-market capitals; Sectoral models; Sustainability

Scientific paper • 2013

Degrowth, Democracy and Autonomy

By: Giorgos Kallis, Viviana Asara, Emanuele Profumi

Degrowth, autonomy, direct democracy, revolution, Castoriadis, democracy, social imaginary

Scientific paper • 2013

Degrowth: from theory to practice

By: Giorgos Kallis, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos

Degrowth; Work; Sufficiency; Social enterprises; Energy

Scientific paper • 2013

Societal metabolism, working hours and degrowth: a comment on Sorman and Giampietro

By: Giorgos Kallis

Degrowth; Work; Metabolism; Institutions

Scientific paper • 2013

Household work and energy consumption: a degrowth perspective. Catalonia’s case study

By: Claudio Cattaneo, Giacomo D ’ Alisa

Time use analysis; Energy analysis; Paid work; Unpaid work; Societal metabolism; Catalonia; Degrowth

Scientific paper • 2013

Beschleunigung und Entfremdung - Entwurf einer kritischen Theorie spätmoderner Zeitlichkeit

By: Hartmut Rosa

Der Verlag: »Was ist ein gutes Leben – und warum haben wir keins?« Die rasante Beschleunigung des sozialen Lebens ist eines der hervorstechenden Merkmale der Gegenwart, wird in den Sozialwissenschaften aber häufig übersehen. Hartmut Rosa hat mit seinen maßgeblichen Untersuchungen diesbezüglich Grundlagenarbeit geleistet. In seinem neuen Essay legt er dar, wie eine kritische Gesellschaftstheorie...

Scientific paper • 2013

Transforming capitalism: the triple crisis

By: Peadar Kirby

development models, climate change, sustainability, Polanyi, climate capitalism, degrowth

Scientific paper • 2013

Translating degrowth into contemporary policy challenges: a symbiotic social transformation strategy

By: Mary P. Murphy

degrowth, eco-socialism, employment, care, political alliances, imaginaries

Scientific paper • 2013

Heterodox Political Economy and the Degrowth Perspective

By: Kent Klitgaard

heterodox political economy; political ecology; metabolic rift; monopoly capitalism; social structure of accumulation; second contradiction of capitalism; energy return on investment

Scientific paper • 2013

Monetary and Fiscal Policies for a Finite Planet

By: Joshua Farley, Matthew Burke, Gary Flomenhoft, Brian Kelly, D. Forrest Murray, Stephen Posner, Matthew Putnam, Adam Scanlan, Aaron Witham

monetary; fiscal; public; policy; steady-state; ecological; biophysical; macroeconomics; money; debt

Scientific paper • 2013

“Friday off”: Reducing Working Hours in Europe

By: Giorgos Kallis, Michael Kalush, Hugh O.'Flynn, Jack Rossiter, Nicholas Ashford

working hours; Europe; 4-day workweek; environmental sustainability; quality of life; productivity; productiveness; unemployment; binary economics

Scientific paper • 2013

The World is Yours: “Degrowth”, Racial Inequality and Sustainability

By: Brian Gilmore

degrowth, racial inequality, wealth gap, sustainability, restorative justice

Scientific paper • 2013

The Impacts of Spatial Planning on Degrowth

By: Petra Wächter

degrowth; spatial planning; settlement structures

Scientific paper • 2013

The Rule of Ecological Law: The Legal Complement to Degrowth Economics

By: Geoffrey Garver

ecological law; planetary boundaries; principle of sustainability; wild law; right relationship; precautionary principle; supranationality; subsidiarity

Scientific paper • 2013

Some brief thoughts on state-space and economic crisis

By: Alexander Sohn

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: The collapse of Lehmann brothers in September 2008 is generally seen as the starting point of what so far already turns out to be the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. It is generally agreed that the economy at large thus has entered a period which structurally differs from the...