The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
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Ten years ago G20 leaders committed a staggering $5 trillion of public funds to rescue the banks and restore growth during the largest economic contraction in modern times. The economies of an unprecedented number of countries — and their associated environmental footprints — experienced very low growth over the decade that followed. In a recent study published in the Journal of Cleaner Prod...
Degrowth aims at undoing growth. Undoing growth both at the level of social structures and social imaginaries. Although the focus is very often on the latter, i.e. the “decolonization of imaginaries” as put by Serge Latouche, the degrowth perspective still seems to lack a comprehensive understanding of the role of ideology, the path dependencies and the power that shape these imaginations. Degr...
Aktuelle Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien von Unternehmen sind insbesondere auf die Steigerung der Effizienz und den Ausbau der Konsistenz in der Wertschöpfungskette ausgerichtet. Sie erscheinen jedoch unter den gegebenen wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen nur begrenzt geeignet, um den ökologischen Herausforderungen angemessen zu begegnen (vgl. Stengel 2011; Schneidewind/Palzkill 2011). Daher ist eine Unternehmenskommunikation wichtig, die Suffizienz anstatt Effizienz oder [...]
