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• 2016

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The Great Deceleration

By: Alex Jensen

From the text: . . . One incontrovertible conclusion of all this, it seems to me, is that it is precisely the increasing scale of economic activity – of ‘the economy’ – that is the heart of the multiple interlocking crises that beset societies and the earth today. The relentlessly expansionist logic of the system is inimical to life, to the world, even to genuine well-being. If we wish to inste...

Report • 2016

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Peoples Global Action

By: Friederike Habermann

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um das Netzwerk Peoples Global Action geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt e...

Report • 2016

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Attac

By: Werner Rätz, Dagmar Paternoga

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um Attac geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl bei diesen als auch i...

• 2016

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Exit from the Megamachine

By: Fabian Scheidler

"Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy: Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, which is exactly what the common present...

• 2016

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Ausstieg aus der Megamaschine

By: Fabian Scheidler

"Warum sozialökologischer Wandel nicht ohne eine Veränderung der Tiefenstrukturen unserer Wirtschaft zu haben ist: Wer eine Zeitung aufschlägt oder Nachrichten hört, fühlt sich in ein Panoptikum von Katastrophenmeldungen veretzt: hier eine verheerende Dürre, dort ein zerfallender Staat, hier ein Terroranschlag, dort ein Finanz-Crash. Man kann alle diese Ereignisse als unzusammenhängende Einzelp...

• 2016

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Exit from the Megamachine - Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy

By: Fabian Scheidler

"Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, which is exactly what the common presentation of news suggests. From another angle, however, they appear as symptoms of a systemic crisis, with di...

Scientific paper • 2015

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Sold Futures? The Global Availability of Metals and Economic Growth at the Peripheries: Distribution and Regulation in a Degrowth Perspective

By: Andreas Exner, Christian Lauk, Werner Zittel

Abstract  In recent years, the strategic role certain metals play is seen as central to the geopolitics promulgated by state agents in the North. While a switch to renewable energy and an increase in energy efficiency might be instrumental to reducing dependence on fossil energy, it increases dependence on metals. This paper starts from an analysis of the likely availability of metals in...

Interview • 2015

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Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit in Indien

By: Vaishali Patil

Dokumentation eines Interviews in Rahmen der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 „Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit“ Titel des Kurses: Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit in Indien Kurzbeschreibung: Vaishali Patil, Klimaaktivistin in der Konkan-Region in Maharashtra/ Indien, spricht interviewt von Steffen Lange vom Konzeptwerk für Neue Ökonomie über die Folgen von Ressourcenabbau für Indien, globale Ve...

Scientific paper • 2015

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Degrowth and health: local action should be linked to global policies and governance for health

By: Eduardo Missoni

Degrowth, Health, Globalization, Global governance, Civic action, World Health Organization

Scientific paper • 2014

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Extern? Weshalb und inwiefern moderne Gesellschaften Externalisierung brauchen und erzeugen

By: Adelheid Biesecker, Uta von Winterfeld

Zusammenfassung: In den reichen kapitalistischen Ländern wird die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich immer größer. In den geopolitisch zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnenden sog. BRICS-Staaten (Brasilien, Russland, Indien, China, Südafrika) bildet sich eine wohlhabende bürgerliche Klasse heraus, die sich deutlich von der Masse der Armen abhebt. Und in vielen anderen Ländern des globalen Südens deutet sic...

• 2014

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Geschichte wird gemacht! Etappen des globalen Widerstands

By: Friederike Habermann

Der Verlag: Friederike Habermann legt den Schwerpunkt ihrer Erinnerungen an die Globalisierungsbewegung auf jene Zeit, die das Ende vom »Ende der Geschichte« einläutete: von Francis Fukuyama als endgültiger Sieg des Kapitalismus ausgerufen, machten die 1990er Jahre aus Bewegungen Nichtregierungsorganisationen und aus Kämpfen Runde Tische. Doch beginnend an den Rändern dieser Erde entstand mit ...

Presentation • 2014

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The new economy of nature – tendencies of valuation and financialization

By: Camila Moreno, Alexandra Strickner, Bernd Hansjürgens, Barbara Unmüßig

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Bernd Hansjürgens, Barbara Unmüßig, Camila Moreno Facilitation: Alexandra Strickner From the conference programme: Different strategies have been developed to address the “multiple crises”. One of them is the intensified financialization of natu...

Presentation • 2014

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Free Trade – a barrier for degrowth?

By: Filka Sekulova, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Lutz Weischner, Alexandra Strickner

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Lutz Weischner, Filka Sekulova Facilitation: Alexandra Strickner From the conference programme: International free trade regimes and neoliberal trading rules (NAFTA, TTIP, WTO) are a central obstacle for a development towards ...

Position paper • 2014

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Resources & Extraction

By: Ulrich Brand

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 Resources and Extraction.

Position paper • 2014

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Where does responsibility begin and end?

By: Antje Schaffartzik

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 Consumption.

Scientific paper • 2014

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Open Localism

By: Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Abstract: The so-called “open-growth-society”, related to globalisation, has only been open for a few: the rich ones, and for the products from multinationals. Criticizing globalisation, worse promoting degrowth, leads very quickly to accusations of being reactionary. In practice now growth and globalisation in this finite world leads to increasing inequality and therefore – frustration, closur...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Interdependencies between Ethnic Inequality and the Success of Climate Change Policy Making – the Case of Guyana

By: Constanze Weiske

Abstract: Global climate change is the most pressing environmental issue the world society has to tackle in this day and age. Although the international Framework Convention on Climage Change (UNFCCC) has been established in 1992 in order to mitigate climate change, substantial progress is not made yet. In order to identify the reasons for that unsatisfactory situation, researchers has mainly c...

Scientific paper • 2014

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The social construction of green and social inclusive technological discourses in the Global South: evidence from India and Bangladesh

By: Mario Pansera

Abstract: The process of technological innovation is widely considered to be crucial to enable human development and to guarantee environmental sustainability. However, the process of development in the so-called Global South has delivered controversial outcomes in terms of social and environmental sustainability. Does this setting present new forms of sustainable futures or is it rather absorb...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number

By: Lorenzo Fioramonti

GDP; power; war; markets; economists; globalization

Scientific paper • 2014

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Towards a re-evaluation of the land sparing vs. land sharing debate from the perspective of peasant farming systems

By: A. Cristina de la Vega-Leinert

Abstract: Worldwide agricultural land is a scarce and degraded resource, while the commoditisation of natural resources spatially decouples the environmental and societal impacts of production, trade and consumption. Sustainability, increasingly an explicit political and social desirable norm, seeks to reverse Nature'S degradation, while fostering human well-being in a fairer society. An often ...