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Misc • 2017

Why less is more - There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy

By: Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel argues in an articel that Degrowth is the only chance to avoid catastrophic climate change

Scientific paper • 2017

The Paradoxical Relationship between Renewable Energy and Economic Growth: A Cross-National Panel Study, 1990-2013

By: Ryan P Thombs

Climate Change; Economic Growth; Renewable Energy Consumption; Renewable Energy Paradox; World Economic System

Misc • 2017

The Paris climate deal won’t save us – our future depends on de-growth

By: Jason Hickel

Introduction: When Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate deal, the world reacted with outrage. And rightly so: the agreement represents a remarkable achievement in international diplomacy – a breakthrough after 20 years of failed climate negotiations. But as we rally to defend the Paris deal against the onslaught of an ill-informed bully, we need to resist the...

Interview • 2017

Commodity Frontier / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Begum Ozkaynak

By: Begum Ozkaynak

Begum Ozkaynak, Bogaziçi University, explains the term "Commodity Frontier", its origin and several related concepts articulated by Jason Moore. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Interview • 2017

Ecosocialism / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Patrick Bond

By: Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond, UKZN-CCS, South Africa, explains the term "Ecosocialism", the crisis of capitalism and the way out with the ecosocialist logic. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Interview • 2017

Radical Ecological Democracy / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Ashish Kothari

By: Ashish Kothari

Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh, India, explains the term "Radical Ecological Democracy" and he nourishes the narration with unique examples from India. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Interview • 2017

Popular Epidemiology / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Grettel Navas

By: Grettel Navas

Grettel Navas, ICTA-UAB, explains the term "Popular Epidemiology" and exemplifies it with a particular case from Argentina: Mothers of Ituzaingó. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Interview • 2017

Boom Crops / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Juan Liu

By: Juan Liu

Juan Liu, ICTA-UAB, explains the term "Boom Crops" and the experience of China with peculiar boom crops, such as sugar cane and eucalyptus. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Interview • 2017

Civilizational Transitions / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Arturo Escobar

By: Arturo Escobar

Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, explains the term "Civilizational Transitions", its relationship with degrowth and environmental justice as well as the crisis of the current civilizational model and alternatives to that, such as "Buen vivir". Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Misc • 2017

Auf Kosten Anderer? - Wie die imperiale Lebensweise ein gutes Leben für alle verhindert

By: I.L.A. Kollektiv

Beschreibung des Verlags: Alle reden von Missständen und Krisen: Hier die Klima- und Rohstoffkrise, dort die sozial-politische Dauerkrise Griechenlands oder die menschenverachtende Ausbeutung in der Textilindustrie. Die Probleme sind vielen bewusst – dennoch scheint sich wenig zu ändern. Warum? Das Konzept der »Imperialen Lebensweise« erklärt, warum sich angesichts zunehmender Ungerechtigkeiten...

Educational paper • 2017

The Stories We Live By - a free online course in ecolinguistics

By: International Ecolinguistics Association

What´s the course about? The social and ecological issues that humanity currently faces are so severe that they call into question the fundamental stories that societies are based on. Ecolinguistics provides tools for revealing the stories we live by, questioning them from an ecological perspective, and contributing to the search for new stories to live by. The course examines a wide range of...

Misc • 2017

Deconstructing the “De-growth” Movement

By: Marc Clauson

Introduction: Tom Rogan in the Washington Examiner wrote a very interesting piece on the new expression of an old idea–”degrowth.” (see http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-far-left-has-an-idiotic-new-craze-reduce-economic-growth/article/2631274). He leads with these words: “Even the Soviets sought to maximize economic output. But today’s contemporary far-left are far bolder: they believe that...

Misc • 2017

Has ‘Degrowth’ Outgrown its Own Name?

By: Giorgos Kallis, Kate Raworth

The following article presents a debate that was first published on From Poverty to Power, a conversational blog maintained by Duncan Green. It is kicked off by Kate Raworth, renegade economist and development re-thinker, who feels that degrowth has outgrown its name. In reply Giorgos Kallis, the world’s leading academic on degrowth, counters with the view that ‘degrowth’ is still a compelling...

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth, Commons and Climate Justice: Ecofeminist Insights and Indigenous Political Traditions

By: Patricia E. Perkins

<strong>Keywords:</strong> climate justice, community resilience, community development, climate risk reduction, extreme weather events, social capital, participatory governance, ecological economics, political ecology, ecofeminism, social learning, subsistence, resource governance, degrowth

Report • 2017

Degrowth Is Coming

By: Edgardo Civallero

Introduction: The planet´s biophysical limits exist, manifest in its ability tu supply ressources to and absorb wastes from human activity. This way, exponential growth within finite limits result in overshooting the biosphere capacity to sustain our activities, and places humanity on a collision course with biophysical reality.

Report • 2017

Pro-Tourism Consensus Crumbles in Barcelona

By: Kate Shea Baird

Introduction: Barcelona, a city of 1.6 million people, was visited by 8.2 million tourists last year. For decades, city governments of all political stripes operated under the assumption that ‘growth is good’. Each annual increase in visitor numbers was announced with glee, with assurances the sector would bring immense economic benefits to the city. But around three years ago, signs began to...

Scientific paper • 2017

Quiet degrowth – diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the European semiperiphery

By: Mladen Domazet, Logan Richardson, Branko Ancic

Description by the authors: We are focused on the European semiperiphery as the standardly presented environmentalist laggard within European environmentalism (cf. Bozonnet, 2017). Unlike societies classified as globally “peripheral”, this region is characterised by already high material standards of living. At the same time, here concern for the environment appears even lower than what is the...

Misc • 2017

Kreativ im Widerspruch

By: Friederike Habermann, Anja Humburg

Debattenbeitrag in der taz "Gegen eine Vereinnahmung der Postwachstumsdebatte von rechts hilft: ehrlich über Entfremdung und Privilegien sprechen."

Scientific paper • 2017

The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: paths to the pluriverse

By: Federico Demaria

Abstract: This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron ‘sustainable development’, and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj from India and Degrowth from Europe as two examples of alternatives to development. This gives a hint of the forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Post-Development Dictionary, that is meant to deepen and widen a...

Report • 2017

Von unten, nicht von oben

By: Sebastian Puschner

Zeitungsartikel aus der Freitag "Keine Angst! Postwachstum weist nicht den Weg in eine „staatlich-zentralistische Regulierung“ – sondern zum nächsten Repair-Café"