Ten years ago G20 leaders committed a staggering $5 trillion of public funds to rescue the banks and restore growth during the largest economic contraction in modern times. The economies of an unprecedented number of countries — and their associated environmental footprints — experienced very low growth over the decade that followed. In a recent study published in the Journal of Cleaner Prod...
By Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta André Reichel’s very thoughtful piece ‘Retaking sustainable development for degrowth’ raises several very important issues. We start by acknowledging that we and Reichel are clearly on the same page in criticizing current models of ‘growth’ including in its ‘green’ and ‘eco-modernist’ forms. We concur also on the need for the world to move...
Der Kapp-Forschungspreis für Ökologische Ökonomie ging dieses Jahr an Matthias Schmelzer, Corinna Burkhart und Dirk Posse. Die Verleihung des mit 5.000 Euro dotierten Preises zur wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchsförderung fand am 5. September auf einer feierlichen Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Degrowth-Konferenz statt. Aus den 25 eingereichten Studien wurden drei für einen Preis ausgewählt. Der Hist...
