From a provocative activist slogan to an academic concept towards policy making This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first international degrowth conference in Paris (2008). This event introduced the originally French activist slogan décroissance into the English-speaking world and international academia as degrowth. I want to take stock of the last decade in terms of conference...
Welche Auswirkungen hat die Beschäftigung mit Degrowth für verschiedene Bewegungen, die beim Projekt "Degrowth in Bewegungen" dabei waren? Darüber sprechen Olaf Bernau (afrique europe interact), Friederike Habermann (Ecommony, MOVE Utopia), Theresa Klostermeyer (Deutscher Naturschutzring) und Werner Rätz (Attac), moderiert von Nina Treu (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie) bei einer Podiumsdiskussion i...
In a recently published article in Nature Climate Change, Jeroen van den Bergh argues that neither degrowth nor green-growth strategies might lead to sufficient climate action and hence makes the case for a third option which he calls “agrowth”. While the understanding of degrowth reflected in the article can certainly be disputed – it comes across as mainly targeting a shrinking GDP – his conc...
