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Scientific paper • 2014

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The Resource Cap Coalition - Advocating for policy tools, which set limits to unsustainable consumption and production

By: Veronika Kiss

Abstract: The Resource Cap Coalition - Advocating for policy tools, which set limits to unsustainable consumption and production Special Session: Respecting planetary boundaries while enhancing the well-being of all Today we face growing global competition over resources and price increase, which hits the poorest the most mainly in impoverished countries, but also in the rich. Policy efforts ad...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Non-renewable energy entitlement scheme for Europe

By: Veronika Kiss

Abstract: Non-renewable energy entitlement scheme for Europe – a policy tool to fit our consumption within planetary limits Special Session: REDUCTIONS: Reducing Environmental Degradation & Unsustainable Consumption Trends & Impacts On Nature & Society The non-renewable energy entitlement scheme is a means to achieve an absolute reduction of nonrenewable energy use at EU level with ...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Prevention of Degradation Through Community Participation: A Pragmatic Approach for Environmental Governance in Northeast India

By: Alok Sen

Abstract: Environmental governance is the most daunting task faced by most of developing countries today specially where poverty is widespread and natural resources abundant. Poor people there depend heavily on the environmental resources for their livelihood and the resultant degradation in turn depletes the food stock for the poor thus further aggravates poverty. The growth oriented developme...

Scientific paper • 2014

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De-growth approach to the European chemicals management.

By: Oksana Udovyk, Erika Öhlund

Abstract: The number of newly synthesized chemicals is continuously increasing, and many of these are now affecting ecosystems as well as human health. The overall objective of chemical risk assessments and management is to assess and contain the risks associated with the introduction of these chemicals. Evidence shows, however, that chemical assessments fail to live up to this objective. Asses...

Scientific paper • 2014

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The quest for sustainable development: Decoupling of what and how?

By: Michael Herrmann

From the introduction: This paper provides a clear framework of sustainable development, which helps to navigate through the increasingly muddled discussion, and to identify policy priorities for sustainable development pathways. The paper reiterates the call for more inclusive and greener economic growth and to this end argues for two distinct types of decoupling: Efforts to decouple economic ...

Scientific paper • 2014

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The garbage crisis , environmental migrants and ecological justice in Campania (Southern Italy)

By: Romina Amicolo

Abstract: The garbage crisis in Campania, a region of the Southern Italy, is an example of human – made enviromental degradation, which determined a sudden drop in the health condition of local inhabitants, with a considerable increase in the number of deaths caused by cancer, respiratory illnesses, and also genetic malformations. Since the mid-1990s the Italian government declared the state of...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Problems of unlimited economic Growth

By: Hugo Hanbury

Degrowth, environment, consumerism, transition, world food system

Scientific paper • 2014

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The Analysis of Libertarian Municipalism

By: Cagri Eryilmaz

Abstract: The aim of this paper to analyze political proposal of social ecology that Murray Bookchin and Janet Biehl’s studies are reviewed. Social Ecology, developed by Murray Bookchin provides a coherent and radical critique of environmentalism as a discourse of capitalism. The solution of ecological crisis cannot be granted by environmental actions, projects and campaigns, green production &...

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Phosphorus Governance for Sustainability

By: Felix Ekardt

Abstract: This article broaches the legal treatment of the non-substitutable nutrient phosphorus, which is indispensable for life. We not only address the case of a highly important resource problem that has hitherto received little attention in the political discourse, but also focus on the excessive and wasteful entry of phosphorus in the environment. It is the sum of multiple minor actions o...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Going beyond organized modernity : The Age of environmentalism ?

By: Timothée Duverger

organized modernity – environmentalism – self government – heteronomy

Scientific paper • 2014

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Limits to substitution between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and intergenerational decision-making

By: Moritz A. Drupp

Limited substitutability, ecosystem services, subsistence, dual discounting, sustainable development, project evaluation

Scientific paper • 2014

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We Need to Change: analysing potential for degrowth across Europe

By: Mladen Domazet, Danijela Dolenec, Branko Ančić, Marija Brajdić-Vuković

Abstract: We analyse comparative findings for 18 European ‘old’ and ‘new’ democracies, based on ISSP survey data from 2011. Indices originally constructed for this analysis reveal comparative insights into the potential within different societies for supporting policies and practices conducive to a sustainability switch. The authors initially confirm the so-called ‘prosperity thesis’ (Franzen a...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Convivial Conservation: Degrowth and the quest of overcoming Capitalist Conservation

By: Bram Büscher

Abstract: A growing body of literature is exploring the intertwined histories and current dynamics of global capitalism and global conservation. One of the major arguments in this literature is that the development of global conservation is directly related to the development of global capitalism, and thus to capitalism’s sine-qua-non, economic growth. This paper reviews these intertwined histo...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Socioecological Dynamics of Resurgent Forests: Lessons for Degrowth

By: Christine Biermann, Becky Mansfield

Abstract: This paper considers resurgent, or regrowing, forests, asking: What dynamics drive forest re-growth? How do economic changes articulate with ecological processes, and to what ends? Drawing on research in Appalachian Ohio, we add to critiques of forest transition theory, which states that after decades if not centuries of forest loss, countries begin to experience increases in forest c...

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Do people care for a sustainable future? Evidence from happiness data.

By: Stefano Bartolini, Francesco Sarracino, Laurent Theis

Abstract: While the various streams of environmentalism agree in claiming that the current patterns of economic activity are unsustainable for natural resources, they disagree in answering the following question: who is the responsible? Two different answers have been provided: the people or the socio-economic system. The first answer claims that people are inter-temporally greedy. Unsustainabl...

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The garbage crisis, the ecological justice and enviromental migrants in Campania (Southern Italy)

By: Romina Amicolo

Abstract: The garbage crisis in Campania, a region of the Southern Italy, is an example of enviromental transformation. It's a human – made enviromental degradation, which determined a sudden drop in the health condition of local inhabitants, with a considerable increase in the number of deaths caused by cancer, respiratory illnesses, and also genetic malformations. Since the mid-1990s the Ital...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Green Agrowth as a Third Option: Removing the GDP-Growth Constraint on Human Progress

By: Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh

climate change, degrowth, GDP paradox, green growth, growth debate, macro indicators

Interview • 2013

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„Der geplünderte Planet“ – neuer Bericht an den Club of Rome

By: Ugo Bardi

Mehr als 40 Jahre nach dem Bericht „Die Grenzen des Wachstums“ stellte der Club of Rome nun seinen neuen Bericht vor: „Der geplünderte Planet“. Autor Ugo Bardi erläutert im Kontext-TV-Interview, welche Folgen der Raubbau an der Erde hat und warum es in den kommenden Jahrzehnten zu Ressourcen-Knappheiten kommen wird. Neben Öl könnte es auch bei Uran und Kupfer bald zu Engpässen kommen. Noch grav...

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Vom rechten Maß - Suffizienz als Schlüssel zu mehr Lebensglück und Umweltschutz

By: Niko Paech, Manfred Linz, Christoph Lütge, Christian Baatz, Laura Spengler, Mathias Binswanger, Lieske Voget-Kleschin, Lars-Arvid Brischke, Andrej Cacilo, Arne Steffen, Oliver Stengel, André Reichel, Harald Heinrichs, Konrad Ott, Uwe Schneidewind, Angelika Zahrnt, Rüdiger Haum, Daniela Gottschlich, Christine Katz, Wilfried Kühling

Zeitschrift "politische ökologie" 135 - 2013 Immer mehr Menschen befreien sich vom materiellen Ballast und ignorieren das Wachstumsdogma: In Reparaturcafés, Genossenschaften, Verleihläden und Tauschbörsen leben sie vor, warum ein genügsames und an den wahren Bedürfnissen orientiertes Leben glücklicher macht und die natürlichen Ressourcen schont. Noch ist die Kultur des »Weniger ist mehr« abe...