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Scientific paper • 2015

Green economy and carbon markets for conservation and development: a critical view

By: Kathleen McAfee

Geen economy, Development, Carbon markets, Ecosystem services, Degrowth, Buen vivir, REDD+

Misc • 2015

Atlas der Globalisierung - Weniger wird mehr

By: Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften/University of Jena

Le Monde Diplomatique: Im neuen Atlas der Globalisierung geht es um das wichtigste globale Zukunftsthema überhaupt: Postwachstum. Was Wachstum ist, weiß jeder - ohne Wachstum gibt es angeblich keinen Wohlstand, keine Freiheit, keinen Erfolg. Doch auf einem begrenzten Planeten kann es kein unbegrenztes Wachstum geben. Wir ahnen schon lange, dass es so nicht weitergehen kann. Aber was dann? Der...

Interview • 2015

"Wir erzeugen künstlich einen gescheiterten Staat": Harald Schumann über Griechenland und die Zukunft Europas

By: Kontext TV

mit Harald Schumann, investigativer Journalist (Der Tagesspiegel), Buchautor ("Die Globalisierungsfalle", "Der globale Countdown") und Protagonist der Filme "Staatsgeheimnis Bankenrettung" und "Macht ohne Kontrolle" Kontext-TV über den Beitrag: Griechenland habe mit den jüngsten Kreditprogrammen zwar den Euro behalten aber die Demokratie verloren. Das Land sei zu einem Protektorat der anderen...

Presentation • 2015

Naomi Klein: Capitalism vs. Climate

By: Naomi Klein

Kontext-TV: Naomi Klein: Canadian Journalist, best-selling author and activist, correspondent of "The Nation". Her latest book is called: "This Changes Everythin. Capitalism vs. The Climate". She is also author of "No Logo" and "The Shock Doctrine". Quelle: www.kontext-tv.de Original post on Kontext-tv.de

Presentation • 2015

Naomi Klein: Kapitalismus vs. Klima

By: Naomi Klein

Kontext-TV: Naomi Klein: kanadische Journalistin, Bestseller-Buchautorin und Aktivistin, Korrespondentin des US-Nachrichtenmagazins "The Nation". Ihr neues Buch ist vor Kurzem auf Deutsch erschienen: "Die Entscheidung. Kapitalismus vs. Klima". Bekannt wurde Naomi Klein durch Bücher wie "No Logo" und "Die Schock-Strategie. Der Aufstieg des Katastrophen-Kapitalismus". Einleitung: Die kanadische...

Scientific paper • 2015

Work less, do less?

By: Johannes Buhl, José Acosta

Social acceleration, Time use, Working time, Life satisfaction, Mixed methods, Resource use

Scientific paper • 2015

In search of lost time: the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy

By: Erik Gómez-Baggethun, José Manuel Naredo

Earth summits, Ecodevelopment, Economic growth, Green economy, Market-based instruments, Sustainable development, Planetary boundaries

Scientific paper • 2015

An overview of local credit systems and their implications for post-growth

By: Julien-François Gerber

Credit, Debt, Money, Growth, Degrowth, Post-growth, Capitalism

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

Scientific paper • 2015

Degrowth and health: local action should be linked to global policies and governance for health

By: Eduardo Missoni

Degrowth, Health, Globalization, Global governance, Civic action, World Health Organization

Report • 2015

People, planet, power: towards a new social settlement

By: New Economics Foundation

NEF Webpage: These are NEF’s proposals for a new social settlement – a framework for deciding how we live together, what we expect from our governments and what we want to achieve for ourselves and others. It builds on the strengths of the post-War settlement inspired by the Beveridge Plan, but moves on – because the world has changed profoundly – to offer a bold new approach to the challenges...

Misc • 2015

Die Welt der Commons

By: Silke Helfrich, David Bollier (Ed.)

Untertitel: Muster gemeinsamen Handelns Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: Die Logik des Kapitalismus heißt teilen. Nur teilen darin nicht die Menschen, sondern sie werden geteilt. Der britische Historiker E.P. Thompson befindet deshalb: "Es war immer ein Problem, Commons in kapitalistischen Kategorien zu erklären." Wer die Welt der Commons betritt, begegnet einer anderen Logik, einer anderen Sprache und...

Report • 2015

Der Wert öffentlicher Güter

By: Petra Böhnke, Jens Kersten, Tanja Klenk, Claudia Neu, Berthold Vogel

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: Das Gemeinwesen braucht öffentliche Güter: die Wasserversorgung genauso wie den Kindergarten. Doch die öffentlichen Einrichtungen sind unterfinanziert. Deshalb lebt der Staat schon länger von seiner Substanz. Auf Dauer untergräbt diese Entwicklung die Grundlagen unseres Alltagslebens: Die Lebensqualität sinkt, und letztlich wird auch die wirtschaftliche...

Scientific paper • 2015

Wirtschaft ist Care oder: Die Wiederentdeckung des Selbstverständlichen

By: Ina Praetorius

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: Die Ökonomie ist zu einer Art Leitwissenschaft geworden, aus der viele Menschen ihre Anschauungen über "normal" und "richtig" beziehen, über den Wert von Beziehungen und Tätigkeiten. Doch ausgerechnet diejenigen Maßnahmen zur Bedürfnisbefriedigung, die immer noch von viel mehr Frauen als Männern gratis in so genannten Privatsphären geleistet werden, kommen in der...

Report • 2015

Their recession is not our degrowth!

By: Federico Demaria

A easy reading article explaining basics of degrowth. At the same time Federico Dearia embeds these basic ideas into the current political situation in Spain and the situation of the ongoing social and environmental crisis. The articel also gives insights to the state of the movement. From the article: "Some critics accuse degrowth of being too unrealistic. But the true fantasy is thinking that...

Report • 2015

Economics for a Full World

By: Herman Daly

The essay starts with a profound growth critique and then goes over to explain three approaches to integrate economy into the ecosystem. The first one the author calls economic imperialism. It is the concept of integrating the whole ecosphere into the economy by financialization, the second is an ecological reductionism and the 3rd is to create a steady state economy. The author is in favour of...

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...

Scientific paper • 2015

Credit creation and the ‘growth imperative’ a quasi-stationary economy with debt-based money

By: Tim Jackson, Peter A. Victor

Abstract: This paper addresses the question of whether a capitalist economy with interest-bearing money can ever sustain a ‘stationary’ (or non-growing) state, or whether, as often claimed, capitalism has an inherent ‘growth imperative’ which arises from the creation of money as interest-bearing debt. We outline the development of a dedicated system dynamics model for describing Financial...

Report • 2015

The green Pope: how religion can do economics a favour

By: Andrew Simms

The article connects Pope Francis' Encyclical published in Summer 2015 to ongoing climate change debates, but mainly describes critique of growth and capitalism formulated by the church since medieval times. Also growth critique or practices not following a growth imperative from other religions and philosophies are topic of the article. Published on 18 June 2015, in the Guardian: Sustainable...