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By: Aili Pyhälä

Abstract: The last few decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of studies addressing the concept of “happiness”. However, the existing literature is highly biased to a) income-related studies; b) modern, industrialized societies; and c) single case studies. There is scarce research on cross-cultural understandings of happiness, particularly from small-scale, preindustrial societie...

By: Monica Guillen

human needs, international development, wellbeing, economic growth, values

By: Gustavo Garcia-Lopez

de-growth, common-pool resources, social movements, community-based resource management

By: Lucia Gallardo

Sumak Kawsay, anti-capitalist, Eurocentric, indigenous women, non-capitalist values, emergence and time

By: Mar Daza

Abstract: A new cycle of colonial expansion for the massive extraction of common goods is currently restructuring the relationship between humanity and nature, and thus the relationship between market, autonomous societies and State as well as the relations between global North and South and gender relations. This reality issues a complicated challenge to social movements seeking transformation...

By: Michael Curran, Laura de Baan, Thomas Koellner, Carlo Rondinini, Piero Visconti, Stefanie Hellweg

Biodiversity loss, agriculture, ecological tax, compensation

By: Ulrich Brand

Abstract: Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective? There are at two continents two thrilling debates taking place. In Europe, the degrowth perspective pushes a dynamic political and scientific debate in Europe which started some years ago in order to develop alternatives to the business-as-usual strategies. Since the beginning of the economic crisis, those strategies c...

By: Natalia Bracarense

Abstract: Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies: an “outward-oriented” program based on exports of primary commodities and, alternatively, a domestic industrialization from within strategy. A consensus that both models failed to achieve sustainable development in Latin America opened space for rethinking development theory and policy in the beginning of the tw...

By: Livia Boscardin

Degrowth, ecofeminism, environmental crisis, animal liberation

By: Alan Boccato-Franco, Elimar Nascimento

Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to analyze to what measure, apparently very distinct movements like Solidarity Economy in Brazil and Degrowth, have the conditions to provide a common platform. So, through the identification of a given textual corpora for both movements, it was possible to verify and compare their theoretical-conceptual basis. The analysis of the basic corpora consisted o...

By: Nicholas Anastasopoulos

Abstract: Plan Nacional Buen Vivir de Ecuador 2013-2017 places special emphasis on sustainability at all levels, social, environmental and financial, as expressed in the twelve National Objectives for Good Living, including the Guarantee of the Rights of Nature and the Promotion of a Healthy and Sustainable Environment. Research undertaken by FLOK Society in Ecuador is an experiment of global s...

By: Alberto Acosta

extractivism, neocolonialism, redistribution, ecological costs

By: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: . . . Fast überall in Asien sind noch erhebliche Investitionen in Infrastruktur, Bildung und Sozialsysteme notwendig, um die Situation der Menschen zu verbessern oder ihnen gar einen Wohlstand zu ermöglichen, wie ihn die westlichen Gesellschaften vorleben. Wie sollen diese Mittel erwirtschaftet werden, und was bedeutet dies für die globale Entwicklung? Werden die Kapazit...

By: Elimar Pinheiro do Nascimento, Alan Ainer Boccato-Franco

Resumo Identificar as possíveis convergências entre a ideia de decrescimento, defendida sobretudo nos países do Norte, a economia solidária e a agroecologia no Brasil para a construção de uma plataforma comum de conversação é a proposta do presente artigo. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica foram identificados sete elementos comuns entre decrescimento e economia solidária e mesmo número entre ...

By: Miriam Lang, Eduardo Gudynas, Margarita Aguinaga, Dunia Mokrani, Alejandra Santillana, Alberto Acosta, Edgardo Lander, Ulrich Brand, Maristella Svampa, Raúl Prada, Elisa Vega, Eduardo Gudynas

The publisher: Latin America is at the forefront of thinking on how to build a new sustainable economy that rejects consumerism and extractivism. An exciting compilation on new ideas such as Buen Vivir that are reshaping the global debate on how to live in harmony with each other and nature. Contents > Prologue: Crisis of civilisation and challenges for the left - Miriam Lang > Debat...

By: Pankaj Mishra

Untertitel: Die Revolte gegen den Westen und der Wiederaufstieg Asiens Der Verlag: Nachdem die letzten Erben des Mogul-Reiches getötet und der Sommerpalast in Peking zerstört war, schien die asiatische Welt vom Westen besiegt. Erstmals erzählt der Essayist und Schriftsteller Pankaj Mishra, wie in dieser Situation Intellektuelle in Indien, China und Afghanistan eine Fülle an Ideen entwickelte...

By: Jin Xue, Petter Næss, Finn Arler

Abstract In industrialized countries, the idea of degrowth has emerged as a response to environmental, social, and economic crises. Realizing environmental limits to and failures of more than half a century of continual economic growth in terms of social progress and environmental sustainability, the degrowth paradigm calls for a downscaling of consumption and production for social equity an...

By: Bob Thomson

Abstract: I show that understanding the limits to growth for our finite planet is slowly gaining currency due to the (mostly) European sustainable degrowth ‘movement’ and a plurinational Latin American cosmovision which is largely indigenous but also criollo. These visions challenge us to decolonize our minds, as well as our economies. I introduces a number of writers and perspectives on ‘degro...

By: Mildred Gustack Delambre, Alan Ainer Boccato-Franco, Edson Franco

Keywords: Solidarity Economy, Political strategy, participatory transition, degrowth process, social movements

By: Annalisa Stagni, Mani Tese

Abstract: The consumption pattern in the north requires an intensive exploitation of natural resources in the south of the world, making some countries totally depending from the sale of their natural resources. The global north needs to stop consumption without limits of our environment and people must be aware that these limits exist, due to the finiteness of our world. Our lifestyles have a ...