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By: Petra Wächter

degrowth; spatial planning; settlement structures

By: Kent Klitgaard

heterodox political economy; political ecology; metabolic rift; monopoly capitalism; social structure of accumulation; second contradiction of capitalism; energy return on investment

By: Giorgos Kallis

Degrowth; Work; Metabolism; Institutions

By: Julia Hahn

From the text: The project “Bürgerdialoge“ (“citizens’ dialogues”) initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research aims to incorporate the perspectives of citizens regarding future technologies. Germany’s highly discussed withdrawal from nuclear energy and the accompanied fundamental changes in energy production were subjects of eight regional dialogues (with about 100 partic...

By: Roberto Pellerey

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. - only available in Italian

By: Anna Ciaperoni

Key words: social farming, penitentiary system, integration, rehabilitation

By: Paolo Ermano

Abstract: Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, especially in U.K., several programs had passed to help and assist the poor workers through a redistributive mechanism managed by the State. We call these programs Welfare State and they still represent one of the main achievements of modern society. In the hypothesis of a degrowth society on one hand it would be difficult finding reso...

By: Lisi Krall, Kent A. Klitgaard

Keywords: Degrowth; Ecological economics; Evolutionary economics; Political economy; Economic surplus

By: Jin Xue

Abstract: By thoroughly exploring the trends of the housing sector growth in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Hangzhou (China) metropolitan areas and its social, economic and environmental consequences, the paper argues for a non-growth and even degrowth in the housing sector in the global North and the wealthy cities in China. A simple thought experiment of a non-growing housing sector is made in orde...

By: Ricardo Braun

Key Words: Sustainable development, Agenda 21, institutional build-up capacity, and local sustainability

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Gail Tverberg

[ Gail Tverberg // A World Running Out of Oil ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Gail Tverberg made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Gail Tverberg talks about the impact of a financial or environmental or resource crisis on insurance systems and pensions. She also discusses how the energy supply and high oil prices will effe...

By: Randy Hayes, Foundation Earth

Abstract: Over the next century, communities worldwide will experience an unprecedented shift of weather with occasional extreme weather events (ecological spasms) resulting in economic spasms and occasional regional collapses. Concerned citizens and opinion leaders need to prepare before these eco-spasm collapses occurs. Far from being prepared, most opinion leaders and power brokers are not e...

By: Giorgos Kallis

Sustainable degrowth, Economic crisis, Environmental taxes, Working hours, Politics, Sustainability

By: Kent Klitgaard, Lisi Krall

Poster by Lisi Krall and Kent Klitgaard from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Institutional Ambiguity and Ecological Economics".

By: Kent Klitgaard, Lisi Krall

Transcription of an poster session by Kent Klitgaard and Lisi Krall at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Institutional Change and Ecological Economics: Extending the Exploration of Human Ecology and Human Economy".

By: Carol Black, Jim Hurst

schoolingtheworld.org: If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? - You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to...

By: Irmi Seidl, Angelika Zahrnt (Hrsg.)

Sammelband: Perspektiven für eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft.

By: Gunther Tichy, Stephan Lutter, Stefan Giljum, Michael Getzner, Engelbert Stockhammer, Wolfgang Fellner, Claudia Kettner, Rita Trattnig, Friedrich Hinterberger, Elke Pirgmaier, Friedrich Schneider, Jörg Mahlich, Claudia Kettner, Michael Getzner, Niko Paech, Kurt Bayer, Ernst Tüchler, Elm:ar Altvater, Helene Schuberth, Brian Czech, Herman Daly, Christian Kerschner, Manfred Prisching, Richard Münch, Erich Gundlach, Fred Luks, Gerhard Schulze, Norbert Reuter, Mohssen Massarrat, Jürgen Grahl, Reiner Kümmel, Frithjof Bergmann

Gunther Tichy,

By: Cornelius Castoriadis, John Murphy

For some time now, 'development' has been simultaneously the motto and theme of the official and 'professional' ideology - as well as government policies. It is perhaps useful to recall briefly the genealogy of the notion. Text of a Conference paper given at Florence in 1974. First published in Esprit, May 1976. Reprinted (with a lengthy discussion, not  given here) in C. Mendes ed., le Myth...