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Misc • 2016

movum - Heft 12: Stadtökologie

By: Michael Müller, Susanne Götze, Jörg Staude, Susanne Schwarz, Christoph Zöpel, Joachim Wille, Sandra Kirchner, Martin zur Nedden, Ulrich Hatzfeld, Lamia Messari-Becker, Jan Gehl, Gesa Schöneberg, Inge Paulini, Wolfgang Wende

Heft 12 des Magazins movum zum Thema Stadtökologie. Kurzbeschreibung: Die Städte wachsen und mit ihnen die sozialen und ökologischen Probleme. Werden die Metropolen zum Ground Zero der Moderne oder zum Vorreiter des Wandels? Das Heft als PDF Die Infografik als PDF

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - The Realities and Contradictions of the Growth Economy and Challenges for a Social Ecological Transformation

By: Clive Spah

Keynote session by Clive Spash. Clive covers growth and its contradictions and challenges for degrowth and social ecological transformation. Facilitator: Filka Sekulova

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Between revolution and reform. A critical reflection of the degrowth discourse

By: Jan C. Zoellick

Presentation by Jan C. Zoellick Degrowth is a conglomerate of several streams of thought offering a variety of sometimes conflicting positions (Demaria et al., 2013). Some of these tensions smoulder inexplicitly below the surface of celebrated diversity. This proposal explicates the tension between conservative and reformist approaches on the one hand and revolutionary approaches driving for...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - From capitalist accumulation to a solidarity economy

By: Barbara Muraca

Presentation by Barbara Muraca Starting from a critique to Growth as a major driver of our economies, the consequences it brings along, from environmental impacts to control over the marginalized, and as the mono-culture of our times, Muraca develops its limits and shows the alternatives beyond Capitalism. She explores what it means living in a society where basic needs services are valued and...

Misc • 2015

Growth Based Economies or Collapse

By: Sam Bliss

Published with a Creative Commons license. Sam Bliss, a graduate of ecological economics from the USA, explains with the help of orange juice what is going wrong in today's economy. In an encouraging way he displays different possible solutions for the problems he describes and thereby names essential parts of degrowth.

Scientific paper • 2015

Zukunftsfähige Unternehmen in einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft

By: Dirk Posse

Vom Buchrücken: Das auf Expansion beruhende sozio-technische Gesellschaftssystem ist nicht zukunftsfähig und bedarf einer grundlegenden Transformation. Angesichts ausbleibender Erfolge bisheriger Nachhaltigkeitsbemühungen hat sich das Bild einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft entwickelt, verstanden als Suchprozess einer Transformation hin zu einer kleineren Ökonomie mit geringerem...

Scientific paper • 2015

The Future Post-Growth Society

By: Clive Spash

Review Essay: Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill, Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

Scientific paper • 2015

Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation

By: Arturo Escobar, Arturo Escobar

Degrowth, Postdevelopment, Transition, Civilizational crisis, Global South

Scientific paper • 2015

Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability

By: Federico Demaria, Viviana Asara, Iago Otero, Esteve Corbera

Introduction to the Special Feature: "Socially Sustainable Degrowth as a Social-Ecological Transformation". Sustainability Science, July 2015, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp 375-384

Report • 2015

Sustainable development is failing but there are alternatives to capitalism

By: Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta

The authors, all well known voices in movements that promote alternatives to capitalism, criticise current and past environmental, economic and social politics. In the context of this critique they describe existing alternative narratives, movements, ideas, such as: buen vivir, ubuntu, radical ecological democracy or ecological swaraj and degrowth. > German version of the article

Scientific paper • 2015

Collective ownership in renewable energy and opportunities for sustainable degrowth

By: Conrad Kunze, Sören Becker

Community energy, Remunicipalisation, Energy cooperatives, Energy geography, Degrowth, Renewable energy, Energy transition

Report • 2015

The Degrowth Alternative

By: Giorgos Kallis

From the essay: Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation “green growth” depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and the impossible goal of perpetuating economic growth...

Scientific paper • 2015

Can Green Growth Really Work?

By: Ulrich Hoffmann

Can Green Growth Really Work and what are the True (Socio-) Economics of Climate Change? Abstract: Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards "green growth" as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, largely based on enhanced material/resource/energy efficiency, structural changes towards a service-dominated economy and a switch in the energy mix...

Report • 2015

What does degrowth mean to you?

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video where participants of the Degrowth Conference 2014 share what degrowth means for them.

Report • 2015

Was bedeutet Degrowth für dich?

By: Marc Menningmann

Ein kurzes Video in dem Teilnehmer_innen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 beschreiben was Degrowth für sie bedeutet.

Scientific paper • 2015

Wege der Energiedemokratie. Emanzipatorische Energiewenden in Europa

By: Conrad Kunze, Sören Becker

Herausgeber_innen: Die Energiewende verdrängt schon jetzt Atom- und Kohlekraftwerke in Europa und wird diese in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft ganz ablösen können. Diese Studie bietet einen allgemein verständlichen Überblick zu hervorragenden demokratischen Energiewenden innerhalb der Europäischen Union. Die Autoren machten sich auf die Suche nach jungen Energieprojekten, die sich auszeichnen,...

Scientific paper • 2015

Towards a political ecology of the digital economy: Socio-environmental implications of two competing value models

By: Andreas Roos, Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis

Techno-economic paradigm shifts; Environmental sustainability; Digital economy; Peer-to-peer; ICT; Political ecology

Scientific paper • 2015

Prosperous Descent

By: Samuel Alexander

Subtitle: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits The publisher: Calling for a sufficiency-based culture of 'simple living' to underpin a macroeconomic framework of 'degrowth', Samuel Alexander draws on a remarkable breadth of economic, political, ecological, and sociological literature to explore the radical implications of living in an age of limits. Written with clarity, rigour, and...

Scientific paper • 2015

Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever

By: Samuel Alexander

The publisher: In this second volume of collected essays, Samuel Alexander develops the provocative ideas contained in 'Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits'. Given that the global economy in in gross ecological overshoot, Alexander argues that the richest nations need to transcend consumer culture and initiate a 'degrowth' process of planned economic contraction. To...

Educational paper • 2015

Re.imagining Activism – a practical guide for the Great Transition

By: Michael Narberhaus, Aryne Sheppard

smart-csos.org about the guide: A practical toolkit for activists and social change leaders who are keen to contribute more effectively to the Great Transition. Based on the research collated and the ideas and experiences generated by the Smart CSOs Lab, we provide guidance and support to activists who want to make a meaningful contribution to this deeper change. Re.imagining Activism provides...