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By: François Gillet

complexe thinking, growth, degrowth , stabilization

By: Max Gaedtke

Abstract: Subject of this paper is to analyse the potential of permaculture teachers as change agents for a sustainable modernity. The theoretical basis of the work is the change agent approach by KRISTOF (2010). Permaculture is presented as a sustainable design approach. The change agent approach is used as a framework. The methodology consists of qualitative interviews with teachers and stude...

By: Charlotte Knips

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 Technology and Production.

By: Mladen Domazet, Danijela Dolenec, Branko Ančić, Marija Brajdić-Vuković

Abstract: We analyse comparative findings for 18 European ‘old’ and ‘new’ democracies, based on ISSP survey data from 2011. Indices originally constructed for this analysis reveal comparative insights into the potential within different societies for supporting policies and practices conducive to a sustainability switch. The authors initially confirm the so-called ‘prosperity thesis’ (Franzen a...

By: Timothée Duverger

organized modernity – environmentalism – self government – heteronomy

By: Ricardo Orzi

Abstract: The present work tries to recognize the importance of social-complementary currency systems for the sustainability of a social and ecological economy. The official currency and the current monetary systems promote an approach of perpetual growth, the predominance of the relation of competition in opposition to cooperation, and a mechanistic paradigm of society like a sum of individual...

By: Vladimir Cvijanovic, Tomislav Tomasevic

Abstract: This contribution is a part of Degrowth in post-socialist European Countries Special Session. It outlines the development path Croatia has pursued (that has not produced desirable results) and will argue that the country should pursue sustainable degrowth. We identify potentials Croatia has in ecological agriculture, utilisation of forests as well as other potentials in renewable ener...

By: João Luís Homem de Carvalho

Abstract: There is a dispute between two agricultural models in Brazil: the agribusiness and the peasant agriculture. We need to discuss which agricultural model is more to our proposed degrowth. This paper aims to show that peasant agriculture in Brazil produces more food for the local population, occupies more manpower, uses fewer natural resources and emits lower amounts of greenhouse gases ...

By: Louison Cahen-Fourot, Marc Lavoie

Ecological macroeconomics ; Ecological monetary economics ; post-Keynesian economics ; steady-state ; degrowth

By: Christine Bauhardt

Abstract: The paper deals with three approaches conceived as alternative models to the capitalist growth economy: Green New Deal, Degrowth, and Solidarity Economy. Ecofeminist economics has much to offer to each of these approaches, but as yet these contributions remain unrealized. The Green New Deal largely represents the green economy, which makes economic success contingent on the ecological...

By: Mauro Bonaiuti

Abstract: This paper will examine the hypothesis that - roughly speaking from the mid-1970s- the advanced capitalist societies entered a phase of declininig marginal returns (DMR) (Tainter, 1988). In this perspective indicators concerning agriculture (Fulginiti and Perrin, 1997), energy (Hall, Powers, and Schoenberg, 2008) and mineral extraction (Bardi and Pagani (2007), research and health sys...

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Money and Finance at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Consensual proposals: > Complementary currencies should be allowed in a degrowth societies. > Cooperative banks managed by communities will be established in degrowth societies. > If we want to reach a stationary or shrinking economy in a peaceful way, corrections in t...

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: Christine Ax

This media entry describes the special session "Degrowth versus growth. Do we really have the choice?" at the 4th International Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. Please find enclosed the overiew of the special session with all short Abstracts.

By: Hidekazu Aoki, Nobuo Kawamiya

Resources, Capital, Substitutability, Growth, Depletion

By: Andrea Pürckhauer, Marielle Beck

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 Reproduction and Work.

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: Jean-Louis Aillon, Elena Dal Santo

health, degrowth, sustainability, medicine, determinants of health

By: Andrea Acquarone, Júlia Pàmias Prohias

Abstract: This paper aims to present a theoretical framework useful for a qualitative analysis of the general economic system. Under this perspective, a possible path to realize a degrowth economy in a specific territory is shown, mainly thinking about a southern European reality. The reasoning starts from a reflection upon the feature of the utility function, which is conducive to a formulatio...

By: Ulrich Schachtschneider

»Wenn jemand mehr vom Kuchen haben möchte, dann machen wir ihn einfach größer« – nach dieser Strategie funktionierte bisher unser Sozialstaat. Soziale Sicherheit war damit immer abhängig vom Wachstum. Doch die Praxis »Unten geben, ohne oben zu nehmen« kommt angesichts der Übernutzung natürlicher Ressourcen an ihr Ende. Und es leidet nicht nur die äußere, sondern auch die innere Natur des Mensch...