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By: Matthias Schmelzer, Steffen Lange, Susan Paulson, Giorgos Kallis, Barbara Muraca, Vasilis Kostakis

Abstract: Scholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical political and economic reorganization leading to reduced resource and energy use. The degrowth hypothesis posits that such a trajectory of social transformation is necessary, desirable, and possible; the cond...

By: Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón

El principal hallazgo muestra que la viabilidad de las ecotecnologías está correlacionada con la diversidad ecológica, cultural y social de los municipios. Asimismo, su adopción social se fortalece con procesos participativos con perspectiva de género y educación ambiental con base en la mezcla de conocimiento técnico y el conocimiento vernáculo. ¿Tecnociencia para el bienestar o para el cap...

By: Lucía Díez Sanjuán

Metabolic and biocultural changes of agroecosystems: the transition from traditional organic farming to industrialised agriculture in a Mediterranean village (Les Oluges, 1860-1959-1999). The analysis of traditional farm systems is an important source of knowledge of management practices based on local knowledge, recycling and ecosystem services, useful for building sustainable agroecosystems.

By: Cemal Karakas, Stanislas Jourdan, Sophie Swaton, Jeroen Van Ranst, Ludovic Voet

Chair : Guillaume Balas, MEP (S&D) Panellists: Dr Cemal Karakas (Policy Analyst, European Parliamentary Research Services, European Parliament), Stanislas Jourdan (Head of Positive Money Europe, Former Coordinator of the European Citizens’ Initiative for Basic Income and co-Founder of the French Movement for Basic Income), Sophie Swaton (University of Lausanne, Faculty of Geosciences and E...

By: Conference Organizing Committee

Some 430 researchers, professors, students, activists, professionals, artisans, cooperative members and representatives of social movements from 38 countries met in Mexico City, as registered attendees at the Conference, to discuss the latest conceptual and empirical contributions of the movements that object to unlimited growth (degrowth-descrecimiento), usually understood as a response to the...

By: Niklas Lollo

Comment from Niklas Lollo on the novel "Ecotopia" by Ernest Callenbach. Introduction: Since 1972, Ecotopia has inspired many to envision, and perhaps even foster, a more ecological society. In Ernest Callenbach’s novel, we are transported to a contemporary America, albeit an America that has been torn in two through civil war. This time the war wasn’t over slavery, but rather ecological prin...

By: Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, Gordon Walker

Description: The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice presents an extensive and cutting-edge introduction to the diverse, rapidly growing body of research on pressing issues of environmental justice and injustice. With wide-ranging discussion of current debates, controversies, and questions in the history, theory, and methods of environmental justice research, contributed by over 90 lea...

By: Joseph Evans

Introduction: The sticking plaster approach of neoliberalism is no longer good enough, argues Joseph Evans. We need to rethink our basic economic models.

By: Alberto Acosta, Ulrich Brand

Warum man den Kapitalismus nur mit vereinten Kräften überwinden kann Der US-amerikanische Kulturtheoretiker Fredric Jameson sagte einmal, es sei leichter, sich das Ende der Welt vorzustellen als das Ende des Kapitalismus. Entsprechend beherrscht der Wunsch nach Wachstum und die Orientierung am wirtschaftlichen Gewinn seit Jahrzehnten unser Denken. Alternativen zum kapitalistischen System wer...

By: Steffen Lange, Tilman Santarius

Digitalisierung zwischen Überwachung, Konsum und Nachhaltigkeit »Alles wird sich ändern!« Dieser prophetische Ruf aus der IT-Branche ist inzwischen zur gängigen Einschätzung über die Tragweite der Digitalisierung geworden. Doch was bringt die Digitalisierung für Ökologie und Gerechtigkeit? Führt sie uns in eine smarte grüne Welt, in der alle vom technologischen Fortschritt profitieren und wi...

By: Samuel Decker

The rise of far-right globalization criticism requires a new role for the Degrowth movement. ‘Progressive De-Globalization‘ could be the counter-project that is urgently needed. After the German and Austrian elections, it becomes clear once more that the rise of the new far-right is not a temporary phenomenon. Neither the difficult Brexit negotiations nor the missteps

By: Carina Millstone

Edited excerpt from "Frugal Value: Designing Business for a Crowded Planet" by Carina Millstone

By: Kevin Charles Fleming

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

By: kollektiv orangotango+

"Maps articulate statements that are shaped by social relations, discourses and practices, but these statements also influence them in turn. Hence, maps (and atlases) are always political. "In this interplay between facts and perception, the cartographer is both witness and actor. [...] In order to create, or, more accurately: to invent, "his worlds", he finally arrives at a subtle mixture of t...

By: Alain Deneault

Point de haine de l’économie là où on nous fait aimer l’argent, à tout prix. Point de haine de l’économie, mais une économie de la haine. Le programme: faire l’économie de la haine. Haïr sans qu’il n’y paraisse. Ainsi s’investit-on dans l’asservissement à l’argent. Sous les données, sous les calculs et sous la spéculation : des crimes, du sang, du vol et des morts, mais assourdis par ce savoir ...

By: Konstantinos Andriotis

Conceptual, Theoretical and Philosophical Issues Degrowth in Tourism explores newly-emerging development and philosophical approaches that provide more equity for host communities and offer a low-carbon future by looking at alternatives to the classic models of development and applying the concept of degrowth in a tourism context.

By: Aleida Azamar Alonso

Esta presentación trata de los impactos económicos, sociales y ambientales del extractivismo en América Latina.

By: Sara Sophia Lowden

Gendered landscapes and binational conservation in the US-Mexico Borderlands

By: Daniel Hausknost, Mladen Domazet (ed.), Marija Brajdić Vuković, Melita Carević, Karin Doolan, Pinija Poljaković, Drago Župarić-Iljić

The publisher: Political ecology is a research approach that combines the disciplinary tools of ecology as well as political economy to address the relations between humans and nature, and various outcomes of social and cultural norms that determine different human communities’ access to nature. Political ecology seeks explanations and interpretations of the phenomena resulting from the human-n...

By: David Murray, Cédric Biagini, Pierre Thiesset

La civilisation industrielle ne s’est pas imposée sans résistances. De grands esprits critiques se sont toujours levés contre la liquidation des artisans et des paysans, contre la destruction de l’environnement et le bouleversement des modes de vie, contre l’emprise du marché et des machines sur les individus. La contestation de l’idéologie du Progrès que porte aujourd’hui le courant de la décr...