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Scientific paper • 2024

Adaptation and operationalisation of sustainable degrowth for policy: Why we need to translate research papers into legislative drafts?

Sustainable degrowth offers effective alternative strategies for tackling social and environmental problems such as climate crisis, resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and species hecatomb. However, it plays a marginal role in policy. Moreover, researchers need to operationalise many degrowth proposals in a more sufficient way for the policy. This mainly conceptual-methodological article...

Misc • 2022

Post-Growth Planning: Cities Beyond the Market Economy

By: Federico Savini, António Ferreira, Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld

This book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the imperative of perpetual economic growth. It sketches out a path towards planning theories and practices that can break the cyclical process of urban expansion, crises, and recovery that negatively affect ecosystems and human lives.

Misc • 2021

The Ecological Constitution: Reframing Environmental Law

By: Lynda Collins

This book sets out the necessary components of any constitution that could be considered "ecological" in nature. In particular, it argues that an ecological constitution is one that codifies the following key principles, at a minimum: the principle of sustainability; intergenerational equity and the public trust doctrine; environmental human rights; rights of nature; the precautionary principle...

Scientific paper • 2021

Steps Towards a Legal Ontological Turn: Proposals for Law's Place beyond the Human

By: Emille Boulot, Joshua Sterlin

Environmental law remains grounded in a ‘one-world world’ paradigm. This ontological structure asserts that, regardless of variation in world-construing, all beings occupy one ‘real’ world of discrete entities. The resulting legal system is viewed as an independent set of norms and procedures regulating the ‘human’ use of the ‘environment’ by specifying allowable harm rather than adjudicating...

Misc • 2020

The lens of ecological law: a look at mining

By: Carla Sbert

Containing an in-depth study of the emerging theory and core of ecological law, this book insightfully proposes a 'lens of ecological law' through which the disparity between current laws and ecological law can be assessed. The lens consists of three principles: ecocentrism, ecological primacy and ecological justice. These principles are used within the book to explore and analyse the...

Presentation • 2020

Degrowth Vienna 2020 - A legal approach to beyond GDP indicators: possibilities and limits

By: Norman Vander Putten

Presentation [part of the standard session "Institutional Change 1"] How can law contribute to the use of indicators that measure progress in an alternative manner? What are the limits thereof? This session will explore legal definitions and operationalizations of “beyond Gross Domestic Product” metrics by examining concrete existing legislation. Presenters: Norman Vander Putten (Université...

Scientific paper • 2019

From sustainability to sobriety

By: Valentin Baudouin

Considering the current ecological crisis, the concept of sustainable development, or ‘sustainability’ appears to have failed to meet the goals laid out by its authors at the 1992 Earth Summit of Rio de Janeiro. Sustainable development was originally perceived as the torchbearer of a new project, a new hope of protecting humanity’s general interest, a ‘magic formula meant to reconcile free...

Study • 2019

L'entreprise sobre : essai sur un concept juridique émergent

By: Valentin Baudouin

L’entreprise est une liberté ambigüe, elle est autant un facteur de progrès que de risque. La crise écologique actuelle conduit les entreprises à prendre conscience des effets de leurs activités sur la société dans son ensemble et l’environnement. Pressées par de nouvelles normes sociales de la société civile, les entreprises sont amenées à modifier leur comportement, notamment à travers une...

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Taxation

By: Tove Maria Ryding, Sol Piciotto, Richard Murphy, Philip Kerfs

Chair: Elly Schlein, MEP (S&D) Panellists: Tove Maria Ryding (Tax Justice Coordinator at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad)), Sol Piciotto (Emeritus Professor of law of Lancaster University, Member of the Advisory Group of the International Centre for Tax and Development), Richard Murphy (Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London...

Misc • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Alternative territorialities for black peoples in Colombia: a reading of the post-development approach

By: Yeny Rodríguez Junco

Esta presentación explica el concepto de 'territorio' de las comunidades negras del Pacífico colombiano y su interpretación judicial como alternative descolonizadora del modelo de desarrollo.

Scientific paper • 2017

Trees and springs as social property: a perspective on degrowth and redistributive democracy from a Brazilian squatter community

By: Jonathan DeVore

Key Words: degrowth; redistributive democracy; squatters; agroforests; water resources; property rights; private property; commoning; cacao zone; Atlantic Forest; Brazil

Scientific paper • 2016

Sufficiency, degrowth and sustainable consumption

By: Joachim Spangenberg

Keywords: Sustainable consumption, sufficiency, Great Transformation, satisfiers and needs, good life, labour, design, human rights Sustainable Consumption Transitions Series Issue 6, 25

Misc • 2016

Willkommen bei der Erdbeerernte! Ihr Mindestlohn beträgt.... - Gewerkschaftliche Organisierung in der migrantischen Landarbeit: ein internationaler Vergleich

By: Sezonieri

"Wir bekommen Lohnzettel, wo alles richtig draufsteht. Der Lohn wird jeden Monat am gleichen Tag auf unser Konto überwiesen. Und wenn wir Überstunden leisten, dann werden die ausbezahlt." Was nach "ganz normalem" Lohnarbeitsverhältnis klingen könnte, ist hart erkämpftes Terrain: Nach wie vor ist die landwirtschaftliche Lohnarbeit eine der prekärsten Branchen. Bezahlung weit unter...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Nicht auf Kosten der eigenen Strategie ... Aktivistin Maria im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Maria

Interview mit Aktivistin Maria im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Die vom Klimacamp und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier ausgehende Besetzung des Tagebaus Garzweiler hat die von den deutschen Leitmedien lange ausgeblendete Problematik der Braunkohleförderung und -verstromung auf spektakuläre...

Misc • 2015

Food sovereignty and solidarity economy

By: Andrea Ferrante, Ludwig Rumetshofer, Paula Gioia, Paula Gioia, Jocelyn Parot, Judith Hitchman, Jenny Gkiugki, Elizabeth Ritsch-Meyer, Isa Alvarez

Video of the forum "Food sovereignty and solidarity economy" from the Solikon-Congress for Solidarity-based Economy and Transformation 2015 in Berlin. From the program: What are the key manifestations and criteria? What are the areas that are shared, and how can they be strengthened? This forum will bring together practitioners, both producers and consumers interested in how food as a human...

Scientific paper • 2014

State- prescribed (re)productivity? The Philippine Legislation on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Crisis

By: Janina Dannenberg

Abstract: (Re) productivity transports a concept of sustainable society where boundaries between different forms of work and productivity are subject to annulment. In the Philippines, the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act recognizes the right to collective ownership of land and considers a broad variety of economic, social and cultural land uses. Even if not titled the same, the concept of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Phosphorus Governance for Sustainability

By: Felix Ekardt

Abstract: This article broaches the legal treatment of the non-substitutable nutrient phosphorus, which is indispensable for life. We not only address the case of a highly important resource problem that has hitherto received little attention in the political discourse, but also focus on the excessive and wasteful entry of phosphorus in the environment. It is the sum of multiple minor actions...

Scientific paper • 2014

Choosing between Blue Growth and Degrowth and the need to reclaim the right to the sea

By: Maria Hadjimichael

marine governance; neoliberalization; coastal communities; rights

Scientific paper • 2014

Commons, Social Choice and Welfare: the limits of private Property Rights system.

By: Alain Herscovici

Commons, Social Choice, Property Rights

Scientific paper • 2014

Interpretation of Ecological Integrity according Planetary Boundaries: Towards improved implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements to promote degrowth

By: Volker Mauerhofer, Rakhyun Kim

global limits, international law, re-interpretation