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Scientific paper • 2020

Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options

By: John Barrett, Diana Ivanova, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Biljana Macura, Max W. Callaghan, Felix Creutzig

Around two-thirds of global GHG emissions are directly and indirectly linked to household consumption, with a global average of about 6 tCO2eq/cap. Changes in consumption patterns to low-carbon alternatives therefore present a great and urgently required potential for emission reductions. In this paper, we synthesize emission mitigation potentials across the consumption domains of food,...

Scientific paper • 2020

The limits of transport decarbonization under the current growth paradigm

By: Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Margarita Mediavilla, Ignacio de Blas, Carmen Duce

Achieving ambitious reductions in greenhouse gases (GHG) is particularly challenging for transportation due to the technical limitations of replacing oil-based fuels. We apply the integrated assessment model MEDEAS-World to study four global transportation decarbonization strategies for 2050. The results show that a massive replacement of oil-fueled individual vehicles to electric ones alone...

Presentation • 2020

Degrowth Vienna 2020 - Mobilität, Transformationsdesign und imperiale Lebensweise

By: Oliver Parodi, Andreas Seebacher, Andrea Marjanovic, Jana Hafner, Walentina Pfug-Hofmayr, Josef Mühlbauer, Nora Krenmayr, Esther Wawerda, Valentin Sagvosdkin, Helena Trenks, Sarah Meyer-Soylu, Richard Beecroft, Annika Fricke

Standard session (discussion following 4 presentations) Degrowth and the overcoming of the imperial way of life - video The basis of the presentation is the empirical work that is currently being developed in the context of the research internship at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Vienna, led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brand. It examines concrete dimensions of life,...

Presentation • 2020

Degrowth Vienna 2020 - Degrowth and the overcoming of the imperial way of life

By: Andrea Marjanovic, Jana Hafner, Walentina Pfug-Hofmayr, Josef Mühlbauer

Presentation [part of the standard session "Mobilität, Transformationsdesign und imperiale Lebensweise"] The basis of the presentation is the empirical work that is currently being developed in the context of the research internship at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Vienna, led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brand. It examines concrete dimensions of life, namely nutrition...

Presentation • 2020

Degrowth Vienna 2020 - Framing strategies for sustainability policy in the Corona crisis

By: Valentin Sagvosdkin

Presentation [part of the standard session "Mobilität, Transformationsdesign und imperiale Lebensweise"] Whether the Corona crisis will promote or slow down the socio-ecological transformation is open – and thus shapeable. How can social-ecological topics be communicated in a reasonable way – and how rather not? This short impulse reflects on these questions referring to framing...

Presentation • 2020

Degrowth Vienna 2020 - Self-experiments – personal transformation with leverage?

By: Oliver Parodi, Andreas Seebacher, Helena Trenks, Sarah Meyer-Soylu, Richard Beecroft, Annika Fricke

Presentation [part of the standard session "Mobilität, Transformationsdesign und imperiale Lebensweise"] Self-experiments offer an opportunity for testing sustainable practices in a limited period of time concerning their effects and their fit with the rest of life. So they are an easy entry into the urgently needed social transformation towards sustainability. Based on our experience in the...

Presentation • 2020

Degrowth Vienna 2020 - Cars for Future? Future images of (car)mobility by technical-scientific actors

By: Nora Krenmayr, Esther Wawerda

Presentation [part of the standard session "Mobilität, Transformationsdesign und imperiale Lebensweise"] The climate-damaging emissions of road traffic and other social and environmental problems associated with transport point to the need to move away from individual car-mobility and towards a social-ecological transformation of mobility systems. This includes political, socio-economic and...

Report • 2019

Degrowth of Aviation - Reducing Air Travel in a Just Way

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider, Magdalena Heuwieser, Adrian Haßler, Chandni Dwarkasing, Elli Reckmann, Irene Iniesta-Arandia, Larry Edwards, Laura Machler, Manuel Grebenjak, Nuria Blázquez Sánchez, Rose Bridger, Sara Mingorría

In July 2019, the Stay Grounded Network met in Barcelona to discuss how to counter the massive growth in the aviation sector. A new movement for degrowing aviation and fostering climate justice was born. The results of the conference and further discussions fed into this report, outlining numerous measures to reduce air travel in a just way. (Excerpt)

Interview • 2017

Was der Wahlkampf verschweigt: Die Autoindustrie und der Weg ins Klimachaos

By: Fabian Scheidler, Winfried Wolf

Your browser does not support the video tag. Einleitung: Trotz Rekordfluten wie jüngst in Houston und extremer Dürre in vielen Teilen der Welt, von Italien bis Somalia, ist der Klimawandel im Bundestagswahlkampf kein Thema. In Deutschland steigen die Treibhausgasmissionen seit 2015 wieder, statt zu sinken, vor allem durch den boomenden Auto-, LKW- und Flugverkehr. Doch selbst bei den Debatten...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth and techno-business model innovation: The case of Riversimple

By: Peter Wells

Keywords: Automobility; Degrowth; Small scale; Corporate governance; Car industry; Technological innovation

Scientific paper • 2016

linking Europe on two wheels

By: carmine arvonio

Linking Europe on two wheels “The bicycle is a chance for a way of life in which respect for others and joy of living are priorities. This offers us a great hope: Cycling as a new Humanism!” This quote from M. Augé synthesizes our approach. We started CicloPoetica in Firenze, Italy, connecting different fields: pedagogy, sport, ecology, sustainability. Our focus is Bike culture, which for...

Scientific paper • 2016

Spatial mobility and degrowth strategies: A note on the role of shared transportation modes

By: Marion Drut

This paper investigates the mechanisms through which shared modes lead to degrowth strategies and help reduce major spatial and environmental issues related to mobility in urban areas, namely road congestion, rivalry of use for parking spaces and air pollution, as well as the number of goods in the economy. In this article, I use gross space consumption estimations for different transportation...

Misc • 2015

movum - Heft 9: Mobilität

By: Michael Müller, Alexander Mahler, Kai Niebert, Susanne Götze, Verena Kern, Jörg Staude, Susanne Schwarz, Joachim Wille, Joachim Wille, Martin Held, Jörg Schindler, Winfried Hermann, Ralf Meister, Manfred Neun, Helmut Holzapfel, Friederike Meier

Heft 9 des Magazins movum zum Thema Mobilität Kurzbeschreibung: Nur wenn sich unsere Mobilität grundlegend ändert, können wir den Klimawandel stoppen und lebendige Städte schaffen, in denen die Bedürfnisse der Menschen und nicht der Autos die Hauptrolle spielen. Das Heft als PDF

Scientific paper • 2014

“The World is My Backyard”: Critiquing Mobility From Inside the Tiny House Movement

By: April Anson

Abstract: The phenomenon of the recent tiny house movement offers a unique opportunity for a to expose the growing commodification of environmental sustainability in a market that continues to shelter economic and class privilege. Written from my subjective position as builder, owner and inhabitant of a tiny house, this paper examines the radical possibilities intrinsic to the mobility of the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Saving Money – Breaking Profit? Ride-Sharing Practices in Inter-City Transport

By: Alexa Faerber

Abstract: This contribution examines how the infrastrucutre and ticketing of inter-city railway transport leads to entrepreneurial practices of ride-sharing and asks if this twofold practice (it allows saving money and gaining money) also contains the potential of articulating economic visions of degrowth. The background for these new forms of transportation-entrepreneurialism is the ongoing...

Scientific paper • 2014

Railway transport and social-ecological transformation in Germany

By: Hannes Fauser

Abstract: This short paper summarizes the development of railway services in Germany in the past two decades, which have been marked by commercialization, increased competition and attempts of privatization. I argue that these policies are misled from a social-ecological perspective and have only modestly performed in terms of shifting passengers and cargo towards railway transportation. The...

Position paper • 2014

Initiative on socially responsible mobility – saying no to traffic madness

By: Sabine Leidig

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Transport and Mobility.

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Transport and Mobility

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Transport and Mobility at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Proposals for the Transformation > Making car transport less attractive (parking fees, speed limits, access limits, gas prices...) > Improve quality / quantity of public transport (right to access infrastructure and services) > Decrease prices of public transport –...

Position paper • 2014

Public infrastructure in a degrowth society

By: Jeremy Heighway

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Urban Transformation.

Presentation • 2014

Mobility for everyone – with less traffic

By: Sabine Leidig, Maggie Klingler-Lauer, Patrick Kayemba, Winfried Wolf

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Maggie Klingler-Lauer, Patrick Kayemba, Winfried Wolf Facilitation: Jan Urhahn From the conference programme: Today individual mobility is organized mainly to benefit transnational companies. Consequences are the destruction of the climate and the...