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• 2018

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Are de defining economic sucess all wrong?

By: Kevin Charles Fleming

A new study asks: Can countries meet citizens' needs without over-consuming resources?

• 2017

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Degrowth: the case for a new economic paradigm

By: Riccardo Mastini

Introduction: Unbridled growth appears to be at odds with social well-being and environmental sustainability. How might we develop a model that reduces the imperative for growth while maintaining economic stability?

Scientific paper • 2017

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The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: paths to the pluriverse

By: Federico Demaria

Abstract: This article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron ‘sustainable development’, and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj from India and Degrowth from Europe as two examples of alternatives to development. This gives a hint of the forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Post-Development Dictionary, that is meant to deepen and widen a ...

• 2017

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UBI could increase human well-being and help save the planet

By: Joseph Cederwall

Introduction: Anthropologist Jason Hickel believes basic income could be part of the solution to this problem of the pervasiveness of the growth mentality. He presents UBI as forming part of a strategy of “planned de-growth,” which he believes will “increase human well-being and happiness while reducing our economic footprint.”

Scientific paper • 2017

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Climate change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective

By: Giorgos Kallis, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Chapter in the "Handbook on Growth and Sustainability" Edited by Peter A. Victor and Brett Dolter About the book: This Handbook assembles original contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees and Tim Jackson who have helped to define our understanding of growth and sustainability. The Handbook also pre...

• 2017

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Postgrowth and Wellbeing - Challenges to Sustainable Welfare

By: Max Koch, Milena Büchs

The publisher: This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs des...

Scientific paper • 2017

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Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: meaning, measure and degrowth in a living development alternative

By: Ritu Verma

Keywords: Gross National Happiness, degrowth, holistic development, Bhutan

Scientific paper • 2017

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Shifting Priorities in Degrowth Research: An Argument for the Centrality of Human Needs

By: Hubert Buch-Hansen, Max Koch, Martin Fritz

From the introduction: Economic growth is neither socially inclusive nor ecologically sustainable. While in the rich countries the unequal distribution of wealth has reached the levels of the nineteenth century (Piketty, 2014), the Earth's carrying capacity is being exceeded in relation to at least three planetary boundaries: climate change, the nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss (Rockström e...

Presentation • 2016

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Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Money and subjective well-being

By: Christopher Boyce, Filka Sekulova, Martin Ftiz

Academic special session, with Filka Sekulova, Christopher Boyce, and Martin Fritz Interest in subjective well-being in public policy has been growing steadily over the last decades arriving at a voluminous and thematically diverse literature. A reoccurring theme for debates is the extent to which short and long-term income growth relates to well-being. Although many studies have shown that in...

Presentation • 2016

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Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Weal. The reorientation of well-being

By: György Folk

Presentation by György Folk Degrowth may appear for the majority in the developed world a sacrifice of the human comfort we live in, a loss of the present standard of life or well-being. Weal proposes a radical reorientation of our understanding about the human good. Biological and social research produced a multitude of partial results that shed light on how humans live well. Equating the lev...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Mapping sustainable wellbeing viewpoints on two dimensions: technical and socio-cultural decoupling

By: Timo Järvensivu

It seems that discussions between camps such as ”green growth” and ”degrowth” often end up being debates, even if the aim would be a dialogue. The purpose of this paper and presentation is to draw a map of the main arguments of some of the camps, with the hope of improving the dialogue. Discussion on sustainable wellbeing is often carried along two main dimensions. The first dimension concerns...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Money and subjective well-being

By: Max Koch, Filka Sekulova, Filka Sekulova, Christopher Boyce, Martin Fritz

Interest in subjective well-being in public policy has been growing steadily over the last decades arriving at a voluminous and thematically diverse literature. A reoccurring theme for debates is the extent to which short and long-term income growth relates to well-being. Although many studies have shown that income growth at the societal level contributes little, if any, to well-being over tim...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Sport and (de)growth: what type of competition makes us happier?

By: Szathmári, Tamás Kocsis

Training, selection, peaking, workloads, etc. are common notions associated with our growth-oriented, capitalist society. However, these concepts are also inherent in elite sport as well, where ‘the winner takes all’. Thus the logic of modern sport resembles the capitalist milieu in which it has evolved: individualism, competitiveness, peak performance, and productivity are all essential compon...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Weal - the reorientation of well being

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György Folk: Weal – the reorientation of well-being Degrowth may appear for the majority in the developed world a sacrifice of the human comfort we live in, a loss of the present standard of life or well-being. Weal proposes a radical reorientation of our understanding about the human good. Biological and social research produced a multitude of partial results that shed light on how humans liv...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Wellbeing-restoring strategies in situations of coercive consumption reduction: implications for degrowth efforts

By: Dr. Ágnes Zsóka, Dr. Maria Csutora

The concept of degrowth has serious implications on consumption. The challenge lies in the most probable necessity of consumption reduction which is still an unpopular idea today. Situations of coercive consumption reduction indicate various individual reactions and severe impacts on subjective wellbeing. Our previous research aimed to analyse how individuals create resilient adaptation strateg...

• 2016

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Im Club der Zeitmillionäre - Wie ich mich auf die Suche nach einem anderen Reichtum machte

By: Greta Taubert

Ist Zeit wirklich Geld? Fühlt man sich reich, wenn man unbegrenzt Zeit hat? Und kann ein anderer Umgang mit Zeit die Gesellschaft verändern? Greta Taubert will wissen, was Zeitwohlstand ist und besucht Menschen, die ihn leben. Sie nimmt sich Zeit, lässt sich treiben, wird inspiriert - und dabei immer aktiver. Im Club der Zeitmillionäre lernt sie neue Lebensentwürfe kennen und wird vor Herausfo...

Scientific paper • 2016

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Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible?

By: Robert Costanza, James D. Ward, Paul C. Sutton, Adrian D. Werner, Steve H. Mohr, Craig T. Simmons

Abstract: The argument that human society can decouple economic growth—defined as growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—from growth in environmental impacts is appealing. If such decoupling is possible, it means that GDP growth is a sustainable societal goal. Here we show that the decoupling concept can be interpreted using an easily understood model of economic growth and environmental impact...

Scientific paper • 2016

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De-growth and critical community psychology: Contributions towards individual and social well-being

By: Alfredo Natale, Salvatore Di Martino, Fortuna Procentese, Caterina Arcidiacono

Keywords: Degrowth; Critical community psychology; Well-being; Decolonisation of the imaginary; Reciprocity; Social justice

• 2016

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Die Paradoxie des nachhaltigen Wachstums

By: Rotherbaron

Teaser: Zwischen Green New Deal und Abwrackprämie: Über Glück, Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlstandskonzeptionen einer postmaterialistischen Gesellschaft Aus dem Text: . . . Wie man sieht, bleibt die Definition dessen, was unter “Glück” zu verstehen sei, in der bhutanischen Verfassung absichtlich vage. Keinesfalls beansprucht der Staat, den Einzelnen vorzuschreiben, auf welchem Weg sie glücklic...

Scientific paper • 2015

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Measuring rural–urban disparity with the Genuine Progress Indicator: A case study in Japan

By: Takashi Hayashi

Japan, often regarded as one of the world's most egalitarian societies, has faced increasing rural–urban disparity since the late 1980s. However, even if the wages and income levels of rural populations are lower than those of urban residents, some people will remain in the rural areas or, in some cases, return from the cities. These observations imply the necessity of measuring the rural–urb...