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Scientific paper • 2012

Anti-spectacle - a discussion paper -

From the text: We want to open this discussion by repeating an earlier argument (Radovic 2008b) that there is a need to revisit World City Hypothesis (Friedmann, 1986). We see that as important in the context of the Conference on Degrowth, Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, as the idea of “world city” implies a certain (kind of) quality, and the concept of degrowth and the idea(l) of...

Scientific paper • 2012

Rebuilding relationships: from the competitiveness tree to the well-being tree

By: Chiara Ortolani

Keywords: Urban growth, connectivity, self-organization, resilient relations, road network

Scientific paper • 2012

Evaluation of good practices impacts at the small to medium scale: the Friuli Venezia Giulia experience

By: Stefania Del Frate

From the text: For the evaluation of environmental impacts due to human activities, lifestyles or plans and programs it is essential the identification of measurable indicators that allow to link the activities we're talking about with the effects we're studying. The best choice of the index depends on the type of the impact we want to analyze. The starting point for the evaluation of the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Methodology: The instrument used by Bilanci di Giustiza (balances of justice) to monitor their consumption

By: Bilanci di Giustiza

Introduction: Heinrich Boell writes of a tourist who is telling a sailor what are the advantages of working more. If you go out in the sea twice or three times a day, the tourist says, you might get more fishes, and get an instoppable growth going. First a boat, then two boats, then several; a factory for frozing fishes, smoking them and perhaps an helicopter to find the fish schools. “And so...

Scientific paper • 2012

A methodological approach to environmental impact assessment of reuse practices

By: Serenella Sala, Valentina Castellani, Renato Conca

From the text: An efficient and sustainable use of resources is considered a crucial step towards sustainable lifestyles, implying sustainable production and consumption patterns. In fact, the transition towards sustainable production and consumption is recognized as one of the major challenges for sustainability, entailing waste prevention and reduction. E.g. by 2020, the OECD estimates, we...

Scientific paper • 2012

Common goods and food sovereignty - Double Pyramid and Economic Considerations on Sustainable Diets

By: Sara Francesca Lisot

Keywords: Sustainable diets, environment preservation, health and nutrition, menu cost

Scientific paper • 2012

Sustainability and antispeciecism: the missing link in the critic of growth

By: Arianna Ferrari

From the text: . . . There is a curious observation to be made about this standard critique of growth. It refers not only to the need of restructuring economic life and recognizing material limits. It also involves a striving to embrace a different normative conception of the human relation to the Earth and so to nature. It thus points to the human responsibility in utilizing and preserving...

Scientific paper • 2012

The multifaceted consequences of ‘meat’ consumption and the adoption of a vegetable based diet: a core degrowth issue

By: Gaia Angelini-Roberto Bennati, Enrico Moriconi, Paola Segurini

From the text: . . . With such a future meat request scenario, many ‘different’ solutions are being taken into account, as the creation of transgenic animals, or the spreading in Europe and North America of the habit of eating insects, or the production of ‘in vitro’ meat created in a lab from stem cells.All the above mentioned solutions appear to be bizarre and extremely complicate if we...

Scientific paper • 2012

Educatiom and happines - Education signifies providing tools. But tools for what?

By: Francesco Mele

From the text: The possible answers are virtually infinite. Here I’d like to suggest one that may appear simplistic: education signifies providing tools to make people live better. True, this means that any argument based only on quantity is instantly incomplete: the idea that education is a matter of accumulating notions and skills (“the more I know the better I’ll be”) risks being inadequate,...

Scientific paper • 2012

Virtual gardens / Real gardens

By: Gianni Gaggiani

From the text: Web 2.0 at the service of horticulture: can a virtual garden help us grow a real garden and feed a family or sell produce in a neighbourhood market? Can a site teach the secrets of fruit and vegetable growing and train users to produce food by themselves? Can it reinvent and (re)launch a social version of bartering, the oldest form of trade of all? Is it possible for people to...

Scientific paper • 2012

Urban, school and collective gardens

By: Valeria Cometti, Luca Miserere

From the text: Decorative greenery or urban gardens? Recently we read in the news about fruit and vegetables from London’s neighbourhood gardens being served at the Olympic athletes’ canteen (http://www.capitalgrowth.org). Social, school and community gardens — these are just a few of the forms, some of them more consolidated, others more innovative, now appearing in towns and cities. So why...

Scientific paper • 2012

New distribution models: the organic farmers way to food sovereignity

By: Andrea Ferrante, Ortolani Livia

Abstract: “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems”. The organic movement developed and led by farmers who wanted to change the relation between consumer/citizen and producers, with an explicit critique to the distribution...

Scientific paper • 2012

The European food sovereignty movement engagement

By: Luca Colombo

Abstract: The 2011 Nyeleni Europe Forum set up the conditions for the establishment of a wide European movement for food sovereignty that aims at a thorough redefinition of food and agriculture systems towards more sustainable and socially responsible policies and practices. Three pillars were identified as outcomes of the Forum, meant to ‘resist’, ‘build’ and ‘transform’ the current food...

Scientific paper • 2012

Changing Agriculture: Food Sovereignty of the territories in response to the energy crisis and the new world revolution

By: Michelle Arroyo

Part of the introduction: In México, one of the most agriculturally-based countries in the Americas, there is a growing tendency among rural farmers to promote a new type of rurality. This new approach aims to solve their ecological, economic and social problems through actions that encourage a de-growth instead of a sustainable growth in development. In this essay I aim to contribute to an...

Scientific paper • 2012

Toward the soil as common good

By: Giuseppe Caridi

No abstract available Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012.

Presentation • 2012

Indigenous Lands, commons, juridical pluralism and sustainability in Brazil.

By: Vincenzo Lauriola

Subtitle: The Raposa Serra do Sol case: nature conservation facing opportunities and risks of ethnocentrism No abstract available Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012.

Scientific paper • 2012

The City of Commons

By: Delia Del Gaudio

No abstract available Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012.

Scientific paper • 2012

Der Rebound-Effekt. Über die unerwünschten Folgen der erwünschten Energieeffizienz

By: Tilman Santarius

santarius.de: Kann die Wirtschaft weiter wachsen und zugleich der Verbrauch an Energie und die Emissionen stark zurückgehen? Diese Studie von Tilman Santarius geht der Frage nach, inwiefern Energie-Effizienzsteigerungen so genannte Rebound-Effekte nach sich ziehen, die den Energieverbrauch steigern und dem Ziel der Energieeinsparung zuwiderlaufen. Sie beschreibt die Vielfalt möglicher...

Report • 2012

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Dem Kaiser, was des Kaisers ist (Teil 1 und 2)

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von Klimacamp und Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Untertitel: Gewerkschaftliche Teilhaberschaft spaltet Klimakämpfe Aus dem Bericht: . . . Die drängende Frage, auf welche Weise der Ausstieg aus fossilen Energieträgern zu bewerkstelligen sei, ohne Massenarbeitslosigkeit und soziale Verwerfungen herbeizuführen, war Thema einer Podiumsdiskussion der...

Scientific paper • 2012

Planned economic contraction: the emerging case for degrowth

By: Samuel Alexander

Keywords: degrowth, uneconomic growth, threshold hypothesis, voluntary simplicity