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Scientific paper • 2012

Ecovillages, a social alternative

Introduction: The term “Ecovillage” has had great fortune since it was coined during the convention of sustainable communities held in Denmark, 1991, by the Gaia Foundation. Thanks to the support of important ecological and alternative experiences like that of Findhorn in Scotland, The Farm in the United States, Chrystal Water in Australia, and others, the Global Ecovillage Network(GEN) was...

Scientific paper • 2012

Una possibile lettura della storia dell'economia del monachesimo occidentale

By: Enzo Marigliano

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. - only available in Italian

Scientific paper • 2012

Eco‐communities in Greece

By: Aggelos Varvarousis

Abstract: This article deals with the relationship between eco-communities and the proposal for sustainable degrowth. Through the study of two different eco-communities located in Greece, namely the eco-community of Gavdos Island and the one of Giourtsa in Pilion, the article hopes to contribute to the discussion regarding the transition from growth society, which, according to a significant...

Scientific paper • 2012

Full Employment & Degrowth: The Social and Ecological Sustainability of The Job Guarantee

By: B.J. Unti

Introduction: The Degrowth Declaration of the 2008 Paris conference called for the “development of policies and tools for the practical implementation of degrowth”. The Job Guarantee (JG) is one such policy. This paper demonstrates how a JG program may be used to achieve both full employment and degrowth. Traditional Keynesian and Post Keynesian policies provide useful tools for addressing some...

Scientific paper • 2012

Transition to sustainability: Italian scenarios towards a low-carbon economy

By: Giovanni Bernardo, Simone D’Alessandro

Keywords: system dynamics, scenario analysis, sustainability.

Scientific paper • 2012

The Transition of Mindset in Economics - A Model for Non-Growth

By: Michael Schlauch, Gaia Palmisano

Abstract: The search for the roots of the doctrine of unlimited growth leads to the traditional anthropocentric world view where the human has to relate himself only to a given nature. This dualism between a human with unlimited technological power and a static nature is not able to explain such phenomena as stagnating happiness indexes, continuous food and resource insecurity, health problems...

Scientific paper • 2012

The virtuous circle of Degrowth and Ecological Debt: a new paradigm for Public International Law?

By: Noémie Candiago

From the introduction: The seventh G20 was hosted by Mexico in Los Cabos on the 18 th and 19 th June of 2012. After the USA, the UK, France and South Korea, all rated as “developed”, “high-income” countries, it was for the first time a developing country's turn to direct the Leader's Summit. However, the out-coming response put forward as an answer to the global world issues remain unchanged...

Presentation • 2012

Modelling the Great Transition

By: Emanuele Campiglio, Giovanni Bernardo

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. - only available as presentation slides

Presentation • 2012

Combining Efficiency, Sufficiency and Lifestyle Changes: the Case of Zero Energy Buildings

By: Halina Brown

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. - only available as presentation slides

Scientific paper • 2012

Abhängigkeit vom Wirtschaftswachstum als Hindernis für eine Politik innerhalb der limits to growth

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Irmi Seidl

Herausgeberinnen: Die Grenzen des Wachstums von Meadows et al.(1972) holen uns nach 40 Jahren ein. Doch inzwischen hat das Wirtschaftswachstum die Funktionsweisen vieler gesellschaftlicher Systeme durchdrungen und diese wachstumsabhängig gemacht. Ziel muss es sein, diese Abhängigkeit aufzulösen und Perspektiven für eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft zu entwickeln.

Scientific paper • 2012

The Real Message of The Limits to Growth

By: Jorgen Randers

Es bleibt eine unbeantwortete Frage, ob wirtschaftliches Wachstum ohne wachsende materielle Auswirkungen machbar ist. Es ist im Prinzip möglich, wurde aber in der Praxis noch nicht beobachtet. Die Studie Die Grenzen des Wachstums des Club of Romes haben diese Frage nicht gelöst, die Autoren sind in ihren Ansichten zur Realisierbarkeit vollständiger Entkopplung gespalten. Sie stimmten aber zu,...

Scientific paper • 2012

On the Cusp of Global Collapse?

By: Graham M. Turner

Herausgeber_innen: Global data continues to confirm The Limits to Growth standard run scenario, which forecasts an imminent collapse in living standards and population due to resource constraints. Further, the mechanism underlying the simulated breakdown is consistent with increasing energy and capital costs of peak oil. The diversion of energy and capital away from industrial, agricultural,...

Scientific paper • 2012

How is degrowth possible?

By: Luigi Vero Tarca

From the introduction: 1. Growth versus universalism - In what sense is growth evil? We can say that it is iniquitous, unjust. Indeed it contradicts the principle which lays down the universal validity as criterion of value since it is good for some people but bad for a lot of other people. Nowadays we could say, referring to “Occupy Wall Street”, that growth is good for 1% of people but is...

Scientific paper • 2012

Relocation and social federalist against the relocation nationalist

By: Thierry Brugvin

From the introduction: Regulatory policy can develop relocated to reduce the carbon footprint and ecological footprint and various pollutants. Regulation relocated, also promotes economic and political autonomy, locality, region or country. Local economic development, social and environmental, must take into account the cultural identity, autonomy and basic needs according Preiswerk....

Scientific paper • 2012

The case of Hirsi Jamaa and others V. Italy and the right to have rights The Migration - Degrowth Nexus

By: Romina Amicolo

From the paper: The novelty of the Hirsi Jamaa case is the new exploit that the principle of not refoulement, must be observed also on the high seas by the European States, because the rescue operations on the high seas are cases of extra-territorial exercise of the jurisdiction of that State. Under International Law concerning the protection of refugees, the decisive test in establishing the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Eco-rifugiati o eco-sfollati? I popoli indigeni e i diritti alla terra, al clima e alla sovranità alimentare.

By: Roberto Cammarata

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. - only available in Italian

Scientific paper • 2012

Migrations in the Paradigm of Growth

By: Jean-Louis Aillon, Elena Dal Santo, Maurizio Cossa, Laura Quassolo, Marta Domini

Abstract: Migration flows are, in a measure, the consequence of dominant economic models, namely the growth paradigm that currently permeates the world. Migrations are the result of different human needs, first of all the need to survive. Naturally, the decision to move towards an unknown destination is also influenced by cultural models: nowadays, the collective imagination of the North is...

Scientific paper • 2012

Transition & Occupy in San Francisco, California: Social movements and the degrowth of the fossil fuel economy in the San Francisco Bay Area

By: Jennifer Wells

Abstract: Myriad social groups and movements in the San Francisco Bay Area are making important contributions to the goals of carbon economy degrowth, deceleration of climate change, and transitioning to a sustainable global society. To date the net effects are of course insufficient, but they provide a basis for greater change. Examples are numerous and diverse. Moving forward, their conjoined...

Scientific paper • 2012

Development was the problem, not the solution 1 Part I: the critique of global environmental politics

By: Matthias Finger, Jacques Grinevald

From the text: There is, on the one hand, ever more economic growth and development as actively promoted by the projects of engineers (modern engineering), big science (physical and biological sciences), including the social sciences and mainstream economics, the competitive Nation-State system and related intergovernmental organizations, as well as by the firms and others big business actors,...

Scientific paper • 2012

The Geography of Energy Transitions. The emergence of local contexts as main actors of a sustainable turn

By: Luigi Gaudio

Abstract: Since the 1973’s oil crisis everyone on the planet was well aware of the economic development’s dependence from fossil fuels supply and their producers. Nowadays, just like then, an economic and energy crisis has once again highlighted this unsolved dependence. Dealing with such a complex dynamic implies a substantial shift in every country’s societal structure aspects: economic,...