The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
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Last summer, Matthias Schmelzer and Andrea Vetter, both from the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie in Leipzig, published the book ‘Degrowth/Postwachstum’. With this book, they provide the first introduction to degrowth in German. For lack of a good German translation of ‘degrowth’ they use ‘Postwachstum’ more or less as a synonym. First they describe how our societies came to depend on growth, and they...
Dragon Dreaming offers simple, objective and playful tools for visionary processes, planning, implementation, evaluation and celebration to make our dreams come true. Thus it helps building a degrowth society. We have a world economy where eight men have a wealth equivalent to more than 50 per cent of the world’s people, while three billion try to live on less than three dollars a day. We ar...
Der Kapp-Forschungspreis für Ökologische Ökonomie richtet sich an junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler im deutschsprachigen Raum und soll Studien zur Ökologischen Ökonomie fördern. Im Jahr 2012 wurden zwei Postwachstumsdenker ausgezeichnet. Für die Ausschreibung 2014 lautet die übergeordnete Themenstellung: „Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum“ Von Interesse sind wissenschaftliche Beiträge, die sich den Wachstumsursachen und -zwängen moderner Ökonomien, der (Un-)Vereinbarkeit wirtschaftlichen Wachstums mit [...]
