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Scientific paper • 2014

The Resource Cap Coalition - Advocating for policy tools, which set limits to unsustainable consumption and production

Abstract: The Resource Cap Coalition - Advocating for policy tools, which set limits to unsustainable consumption and production Special Session: Respecting planetary boundaries while enhancing the well-being of all Today we face growing global competition over resources and price increase, which hits the poorest the most mainly in impoverished countries, but also in the rich. Policy efforts...

Scientific paper • 2014

Scenarios on energy sufficiency and societal transformations: changing lifestyles and social structures to make energy savings

By: M Le Dû

Abstract: Lifestyles and social structures have a significant impact on energy consumption. Governments are focusing their strategies on renewable energies for energy supply and on energy efficiency to reduce energy demand, but energy transition is strongly linked to wider societal change. By creating prospective energy scenarios, the aim of this research focused on energy sufficiency was to...

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

Resource efficiency, concepts and indicators

By: Philipp Schepelmann

Abstract:Economic growth was the basis for the social reconciliation between capital owners and the working class. In industrialized countries it was coupled with a growth of material flows of geological proportions. It is quite remarkable that within the framework of the growth-oriented Europe 2020 Strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy the European Commission has launched a...

Scientific paper • 2014

Acceptance of Mobile Phone Return Programmes for Increased Resource Efficiency by Young People—Experiences from a German Research Project

By: Alexandra Seibt, Julia Nordmann

Abstract: The need of recycling obsolete mobile phones has significantly increased with a rapidly growing worldwide distribution of mobile phones (Geyer, 2010; Hagelüken, 2010). Mobile phones have a high environmental impact throughout the whole value chain; so far, individual use and recycling behaviour do not show any trends towards more sustainable patterns. Most communication measures for...

Scientific paper • 2014

Growth forces: Material rent and efficiency consumption

By: Andreas Siemoneit

Abstract: Producers and distributors as well as consumers are using frequently more technical products that enhance their cost efficiency and their economic (and social) competitiveness. This has sweeping distributive consequences which are inescapable. This effect is not restricted to a certain economic system, but requires only the fact that higher efficiency directs demand toward the more...

Scientific paper • 2014

Ethical implications of efficiency in climate economics

By: Ida Andrea Braathen Sognnaes

Abstract: Global climate change brings up fundamental questions related to intragenerational and intergenerational equity. Economists have traditionally drawn a sharp distinction between efficiency and equity, but more recent studies in ecological economics have argued that the two are intimately linked (Corbera, Brown, & Adger, 2007; Howarth & Norgaard, 1992; Muradian, Corbera,...

Scientific paper • 2014

Well-being and resource-efficiency at the meso level

By: Konstantin Stadler, Edgar Hertwich, Richard Wood, Stefan Pauliuk

Abstract: A resource efficient society should provide high well-being at a low cost to the environment while preserving the natural system/natural resources for future generations. Traditionally, well-being has always been assessed on the national level. In contrast, the economic system consists of specific sector with specific functions for the society ranging from providing food to education...

Scientific paper • 2014

Components of the energy system for a degrowth transformation

By: Petra Wächter

Abstract: Energy use in the context of degrowth goes beyond the claim for dematerialization and energy efficiency improvements. Although we can observe a decoupling of energy from growth in the past decade, absolute energy consumption is still increasing worldwide. Energy efficiency improvements are not sufficient to overcome an exploitation of energy resources and enhance the rebound-effect to...

Scientific paper • 2014

An interdisciplinary understanding of macro rebound effects

By: Hans Jakob Walnum

Rebound effects, critical realism, Interdisciplinary, socio technological structures

Misc • 2014

Bound on Rebound: Die Effizienz hat Folgen

By: Tilman Santarius, Peter Hennicke, Andreas Exner, Wolfgang Sachs, Reinhard Madlener, Bernd Draser, Ralph Hintemann, Matthias Laschke, Sarah Diefenbach, Marc Hassenzahl, Stefan Thomas

Factory: Rebound-Effekte sind der Dämon der technologischen Effizienz: Ihretwegen sind die versprochenen Einsparungen an Ressourcen nicht so groß wie erwartet, teilweise werden sogar mehr als zuvor verbraucht. Ohne Obergrenzen und Lebensstil-Änderung wird der Dämon wohl nicht zu bändigen sein, heißt es im neuen factory-Magazin Rebound.

Scientific paper • 2014

Ist ökologisches Wachstum möglich?

By: Minou Yussefi-Menzler, Stephan Börnecke

Herausgeber_innen: Schon wenn es um den wünschenswerten Anteil des Biolandbaus an der gesamten Landwirtschaft geht, driften die Meinungen auseinander. Umso mehr, wenn die Frage lautet, ob ein weiteres Wachstum der Branche überhaupt nachhaltig sein kann. Minou Yussefi-Menzler und Stephan Börnecke berichten, was renommierte Ökonomie-und Umweltexperten dazu sagen.

Scientific paper • 2013

Strong sustainable consumption governance – precondition for a degrowth path?

By: Sylvia Lorek, Doris Fuchs

Sustainable consumption, Degrowth, Policy Instruments, NGOs

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...

Scientific paper • 2009

Wachstum „light“? Qualitatives Wachstum ist eine Utopie

By: Niko Paech

Qualitatives Wachstum, Effizienz, Konsistenz, Rebound-Effekte, Postwachstumsökonomie

Misc • 2006

Die McDonaldisierung der Gesellschaft

By: George Ritzer

Seine provokant-kritische Theorie der "McDonaldisierung" der Gesellschaft führt der US-amerikanische Sozialwissenschaftler George Ritzer nun in einer völlig neuen Ausgabe ins 21. Jahrhundert. Am Beispiel des McDonald's-Imperiums zeigt Ritzer, wie die Rationalisierung der Produktionsprozesse im Zeichen der Globalisierung aggressiver denn je um sich greift. Die internationale Ausbreitung des...