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By: Frederik Berend Blauwhof

Keywords: Steady-state economy; Capital accumulation; Capitalism; Ecological economics; Marxian economics; Growth; Crisis; Reform; Policy

By: Vincenzo Lauriola

Subtitle: The Raposa Serra do Sol case: nature conservation facing opportunities and risks of ethnocentrism No abstract available Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012.

By: Giuseppe Caridi

No abstract available Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012.

By: Guido Dalla Casa

Abstract: Economic growth was born only in a human culture in a particular moment of its history and is not a "natural push of mankind". It grew up in a culture with a completely anthropocentric background, which considers our species above (out of) Nature and independent from the Ecosystem: it originated from a worldview that sees human activities as possible regardless of their link with the ...

By: Richard Douthwaite

Energy; Money supply; Debt; Regional currencies; Climate change

By: Charles Eisenstein, Extraenvironmentalist

[ Charles Eisenstein // Living Without Economic Growth ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. In this video Charles Eisenstein is thinking out loud what might mentally happen to people when the economy doesn't grow any longer. Extraenvironmentalist about the video: Charles Eisenstein talks about lower rates of economic growth across the planet. As economic growth stalled in 2012, will 2...

By: Geoffrey Garver, Geoffrey Garver

From the text: Systemic ecological boundaries, buffered with means to allow the flourishing of life and not merely its survival, are the boundaries that matter most in this critical era. They can serve as the base of a structure of ecological law that must be respected and enforced to fend off catastrophe and enhance the capacity for life to flourish. I argue that the looming prospect of transg...

By: Hartmut Rosa

Mit der Beschleunigung des sozialen Lebens in der Moderne ändert sich auch die Art und Weise, in der der Mensch »in die Welt gestellt« ist. Hartmut Rosa analysiert aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln die Veränderungen in der Welterfahrung, der Weltbeziehung und der Weltbearbeitung moderner Subjekte. Dabei entsteht umrißhaft das Programm einer kritischen Soziologie, in deren Zentrum die Bestimmun...

By: Eric Zencey

Chapter two from "The Other Road to Serfdom and the Path to Sustainable Democracy", University Press of New England

By: Mauro Bonaiut

Abstract: The present paper attempts to reveal the relationships between some long-run systemic processes (on the economic, ecological, social and symbolic levels) and the theme of democracy. Starting from the distinction between democracy and autonomy, the paper focusses on its main issue: the trade-off between growth and autonomy. Continual growth can be produced, and indeed has been produced...

By: Luigi Giario

From the text: We search for a new lifestyle because we know that living in a communitarian environment which values diversity brings serenity. A fulfilled person is a resource for the entire society. We can say to each other “I can be a resource but I need you to make it happen”. On these bases, the first experiences of housing communities and territorial communities were born. Territory can b...

By: Maurizio Pallante

Introduction: Analysis of the situation and premises The gravity of the problem of public debt has not been underestimated. It is the foundation on which growth of the present historical period is built, indispensable for the purposes of increasing production of commodities. It is a choice pursued knowingly and unanimously by governments of the right and left in all industrialized countries. ...

By: Andrea Baranes

Introduction: Too much welfare? Some European countries, namely the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) have lived beyond their capabilities. Too much welfare and too many social expenditures led to an increasing public debt. It is now time to impose some discipline over these “spendthrift” states, in order to force them to tighten their belts and put order into their public acco...

By: F. Tabellini, P. Ponti

From the introduction: . . . We think that we have to choose and to make explicit a theory of justice because we believe that any theory concerning human action, even those that claim to be purely descriptive, they subtend a specific idea of human being and they have a normative component (besides a prescriptive one). Looking for a possible solution, we try to trace an integration path between ...

By: Joan Martinez-Alier

Ecological Economics, Social Metabolism, and Political Ecology

By: Giorgos Kallis, Christian Kerschner, Joan Martinez-Alier

By: Wolfgang Fischer, Peter Wirth, Barbara Mali

Der Verlag: Bergbauregionen überall in Mitteleuropa sind auf der Suche nach neuen Perspektiven. Sie setzen auf Tourismus, regenerative Energiegewinnung oder auf ihr reichhaltiges kulturelles Erbe. Trotz vielfältiger Herausforderungen ist die nachhaltige Entwicklung ehemaliger Bergbaugebiete ein ebenso lohnenswertes wie aussichtsreiches Unterfangen. Eine Vielzahl von Fallstudien bietet reichlich...

By: Eberhard von Kuenheim Stiftung, Akademie Kinder philosophieren

"Wem gehört die Natur?" "Was bedeutet Verantwortung?" „Brauchen wir Regeln?“ "Was ist Verzicht?" „Kann man die Zukunft planen?“ Können Kinder solche Fragen beantworten? Darüber nachdenken können Sie in jedem Fall, mit überraschend tiefsinnigen und erfrischend lebendigen Ansichten: Kinder philosophieren über Nachhaltigkeit – und zwar gerne! „Junge Vor!Denker“ heißt das Projekt, in dem Kinde...

By: Christoph Deutschmann

Abstract: The paper enters the vast debate on capitalism and religion and offers a discrete interpretation of their relationship. On the one hand, it is questioned to consider capitalism as a secularized social system in which religions do no longer play a dominant public role, although its historical rise may have been influenced by religious movements. On the other hand,...

By: Giorgos Kallis, Christos Zografos, Claudio Cattaneo, Giacomo D’Alisa

Introduction the the Special Issue "Politics, Democracy and Degrowth" published in the Jornal "Futures". Futures, Volume 44, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 515–523, Special Issue: Politics, Democracy and Degrowth