By: Cordula Kropp, Michael Kunkis, Jiska Gojowczyk, Franziska Engels, Martin David, Daniel Belling, Sophia Alcantara, Sandra Wassermann, Martin Schweighofer, Amrit Bruns, Maximilian Schmies, Maria Seewald, Sebastian Johann, Franziska Vaessen, Sarah Schmitz, Lenard Gunkel, Moritz Boddenberg, Alexander Kleinschrodt, Luise Tremel

Über Prozesse des Abschaffens und Erneuerns in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation Der Verlag: Das Zauberwort Innovation beherrscht nicht nur die öffentlichen Debatten über nachhaltige Entwicklung sondern auch den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs um gesellschaftliche Nachhaltigkeitstransformation. Das Antonym Exnovation, d.h. die Abschaffung von Altem, ist dagegen kaum gebräuchlich und nur unzureich...

By: Hans E. Widmer

Inhalt: Wie schrumpfen ohne auf die Nase zu fallen? 5 Mit einem andern Wachstum das Schrumpfen finanzieren 11 Wirtschaft. Wessen Wirtschaft? 15 Was heisst da «smart»? 21 Ein neuer New Deal für die Schweiz? 27 Wer macht mit? 36 Erwähnte Literatur 41 Anhang 42

By: Samuel Alexander

The publisher: In this second volume of collected essays, Samuel Alexander develops the provocative ideas contained in 'Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits'. Given that the global economy in in gross ecological overshoot, Alexander argues that the richest nations need to transcend consumer culture and initiate a 'degrowth' process of planned economic contraction. To ac...

By: Samuel Alexander

Subtitle: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits The publisher: Calling for a sufficiency-based culture of 'simple living' to underpin a macroeconomic framework of 'degrowth', Samuel Alexander draws on a remarkable breadth of economic, political, ecological, and sociological literature to explore the radical implications of living in an age of limits. Written with clarity, rigour, and insig...

By: Vincent Liegey

From the text: In order to move beyond a productivist vision of life, we have to question the notion of work itself, which, for the most part, serves to sustain a system of profound inequality. We need to break from “sacrosanct economic growth”, “abandoning work-based ways of thinking, putting the economy and our obsession with the bottom line back where they belong, rejecting the view that eve...

By: Samuel Alexander

From the article: What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can’t grow for ever. This week’s Addicted to Growth conference in Sydney is exploring how to move beyond growth economics and towards a “steady-state” economy. But what is a...

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Scenarios for a post-growth economy" mit Niko Paech und Clive Spash. Der Bericht ist in 3 Teile geteilt: Teil 1, Teil 2, Teil 3 Aus dem Bericht: "Szenarios einer Postwachstumswirtschaft" - zwei Ökonomen versuchten sich am vierten, vorletzten Tag der Internationalen Degrowth-Konferenz daran, diesen Titel mit Inhalt zu fülle...

By: Miriam Lahusen, Sirkka Jacobsen

[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="105124,105125,105126,105127"] From the conference programme: Needs and behaviours of citizens are important sources of knowledge for research and development in the field of energy sufficiency. This workshop will investigate how these can be included by using artistic methods developed by designers in the project “Energiesuffizienz” of the ifeu Institute...

By: Niko Paech, Clive Spash

Scientific lecture at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Presentations by Niko Paech and Clive Spash. Niko Paech: An Introduction to Post-growth Economies Clive Spash: A Future Social Ecological Economy: Reality-Transformation-Utopia Discussion with Niko Paech and Clive Spash

By: Harald Welzer, Uwe Schneidewind, Anja Humburg

Diskussionsveranstaltung auf der 4. Internationalen Degrowth Konferenz für ökologische Nachhaltigkeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit in Leipzig im Jahr 2014. Sprecher: Harald Welzer, Uwe Schneidewind Moderation: Anja Humburg Aus dem Konferenz Programm: Die deutsche Postwachstumsdebatte ist eng verknüpft mit der dritten Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie: Suffizenz. Doch während manche Autoren auf die e...

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Uwe Scheidewind

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 Politics of Sufficiency.

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Politics of Sufficiency at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 General strategies > Focus on local policies (bottom-up participation) > Offer alternatives: > > both infrastructural & actual policies to try out alternative activities (like free bus pass) > > particularly to new residents because of higher accept...

By: Robert Strauch

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 Learning for degrowth.

By: Corinna Vosse, Dieter Haselbach

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.

By: Carina Millstone

Abstract: This paper concerns new business models for de-growth and the steady state economy. It argues that business models need to be developed that drive products and services with the attributes of efficiency and sufficiency. It identifies four such models, including new approaches to product creation and retail, a shift from ownership to access, a shift from products to services and new wa...

By: Melanie Lukas, Christa Liedtke, Jola Welfens, Alexandra Seibt, Lisa Geringhoff

social practice, consumer behaviour, sufficiency, sustainable consumption, transition

By: Niko Schäpke, Felix Rauschmayer

Abstract: Sustainability transitions require altered individual behaviors. Policies aiming to make people change their consumption behavior are designed according to efficiency, consistency, and sufficiency principles. Taking into account shortcomings of the first two principles, this paper specifically addresses the sufficiency principle. Sufficiency policies are not very popular due to the fe...

By: Ulrich Schachtschneider

Abstract: An ecological basic income is one financed through eco-taxes. This principle could both combine the necessary rise in costs of environmental goods with redistribution of income and link sufficiency with different lifestyle norms. Moreover, it can help to switch off the acceleration motors which are responsible for the ongoing social acceleration in modern societies, according to the t...

By: Robert Ulmer

unconditional basic income, modesty, sufficiency

By: M Le Dû

Abstract: Lifestyles and social structures have a significant impact on energy consumption. Governments are focusing their strategies on renewable energies for energy supply and on energy efficiency to reduce energy demand, but energy transition is strongly linked to wider societal change. By creating prospective energy scenarios, the aim of this research focused on energy sufficiency was to ev...