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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Degrowth: lost in plurality? There seems to exist a gap in the degrowth discourse around the question of how to move towards a degrowth society. This brings to our attention an important concept - that of strategy. Here, we will use the word ‘strategy’ to refer to how the ends (i.e. a degrowth society) is achieved by the means. Having spent a number of years probing into the degrowth discourse...
Dragon Dreaming offers simple, objective and playful tools for visionary processes, planning, implementation, evaluation and celebration to make our dreams come true. Thus it helps building a degrowth society. We have a world economy where eight men have a wealth equivalent to more than 50 per cent of the world’s people, while three billion try to live on less than three dollars a day. We ar...
Wachstum ist die vorherrschende Zielvorstellung modernen Wirtschaftens, Unternehmenswachstum gilt als Normalfall und Leistungsnachweis: Wer es richtig macht, wird auch wachsen. Dieses Bild eines klaren Zusammenhangs wurde vornehmlich durch den Wachstumsschwung der europäischen Nachkriegszeit geprägt; längst jedoch stößt die Wirtschaft an Grenzen des Wachstums. Stagnierende oder schrumpfende Märkte, ökologische Knappheiten, ökonomische Krisen oder einschneidende demografische Veränderungen [...]
