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...
Interview mit Nina Treu Wenige Tage vor Beginn der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinland hat die Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung Nordrhein-Westfalen die Förderung eingestellt. Nina Treu vom Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie über die Begründung der Stiftung, was das politisch bedeutet und wie es jetzt weitergeht. Nur zehn Tage vor Beginn der Sommerschule hat die Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwic...
Since the 2014 Leipzig Degrowth Conference, the argument that climate justice cannot exist without degrowth has repeatedly been made. In a keynote at the Degrowth conference in Budapest, in September 2016, I developed this line of thinking further and argued that the opposite is equally important: There is not degrowth without climate justice. My argument, which I presented as someone involved ...
