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By: Helmut Haberl, Julia K. Steinberer, Christoph Plutzar, Karl-Heinz Erb, Veronika Gaube, Simone Gingrich, Fridolin Kraussmann

Indicators of resource use such as material and energy flow accounts, emission data and the ecological footprint inform societies about their performance by evaluating resource use efficiency and the effectiveness of sustainability policies. The human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) is an indicator of land-use intensity on each nation's territory used in research as well as in...

By: Antonia De Vita

From the text: 3. The objectives of the research project were: - to identify the educational and participatory processes, self-training and training processes that currently exist in emerging economies; - to find out what entities are represented or self-represented in communities that have put into practice emerging economic practices; - to identify any possible impact or repercussions (eco...

By: Mario Santi

From the text: Waste allows us to see our civilisation back-to-front. If we examine what we throw away (and why, when and how we remove it from our surroundings) we can understand who we are and where we are going. Starting from refuse, we can reconstruct the development of our civilisation and evaluate our standards of living and margins of survival. Thinking about the ‘end of life’ of things ...

By: Marinella Favot

KEYWORDS: ERP; extended producer responsibility; e-waste; WEEE; green design; design for environment (DfE); financial mechanisms

By: Laura Badalucco

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

By: Teresa Baca, Pilar Lorente, Alberto Peña, José Manuel Soto, Francisco Peula, Antonio Salas, Manuela Perales, Carmen Bullejos, María de Nobili

Keywords: biowaste, sustainability, recycling

By: Graziano Naressi

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

By: Michelle Arroyo

Part of the introduction: In México, one of the most agriculturally-based countries in the Americas, there is a growing tendency among rural farmers to promote a new type of rurality. This new approach aims to solve their ecological, economic and social problems through actions that encourage a de-growth instead of a sustainable growth in development. In this essay I aim to contribute to an und...

By: Luca Colombo

Abstract: The 2011 Nyeleni Europe Forum set up the conditions for the establishment of a wide European movement for food sovereignty that aims at a thorough redefinition of food and agriculture systems towards more sustainable and socially responsible policies and practices. Three pillars were identified as outcomes of the Forum, meant to ‘resist’, ‘build’ and ‘transform’ the current food syste...

By: Andrea Ferrante, Ortolani Livia

Abstract: “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems”. The organic movement developed and led by farmers who wanted to change the relation between consumer/citizen and producers, with an explicit critique to the distribution mode...

By: João Luis

The publisher: In this book you will find an experience that many - at the time that it was implemented - called a completely utopian proposal. However, it was fully achieved and proved that it is possible to carry out an agro-food production by undertaking the reallocation of both production and consumption, combined with a social inclusion program based on degrowth principles regarding the us...

By: Leigh Brownhill, Terisa E. Turner, Wahu Kaara

From the paper: Our objective is to more seriously consider another route to overcoming the disasters of capitalism. For the sake of paralleling the tone and spirit of the term ‘degrowth,’ we call it ‘de-alienation.’ The term calls attention to the problem of ‘alienation’ from enclosure of land, productive processes, and products to the alienation of people from each other and from themselves a...

By: Simone D'Alessandro, Ennio Bilancini

Degrowth; Endogenous growth; Consumption externalities; Leisure externalities; Production externalities

By: Alexis J. Passadakis

Herausgeber: Der Green New Deal wird weder die ökologische Krise bewältigen noch Arbeits losigkeit aus der Welt schaffen. Im Gegensatz dazu versuchen Konzepte für eine solidarische Postwachstumsökonomie beiden Herausforderungen gerecht zu werden.

By: Christine Resch, Heinz Steinert

Seit Ende des real existierenden Sozialismus ist die Rede vom Kapitalismus wieder salonfähig, spätestens mit der Finanzkrise beängstigend. Dabei verwischen sich die Auslegungen und Assoziationen in Alltag, Medien und Sozialwissenschaften zwischen „Profitgier als Verhängnis“ über die „Ankurbelung des Binnenkonsums“ zu „notwendigen Reformen“. Was aber ist mit Kapitalismus eigentlich gemeint? C...

By: Valentin Thurn, Stefan Kreutzberger

Rund die Hälfte unserer Lebensmittel - bis zu 20 Millionen Tonnen allein in Deutschland - landet im Müll. Das meiste schon auf dem Weg vom Acker in den Laden, bevor es überhaupt unseren Esstisch erreicht: jeder zweite Kopfsalat, jede zweite Kartoffel und jedes fünfte Brot. Massenproduktion und ein schneller Warendurchlauf sichern der globalisierten Ernährungsindustrie und dem Handel Milliard...

By: Valentin Thurn

(english below) tastethewaste.com: 50 Prozent aller Lebensmittel werden weggeworfen: Jeder zweite Kopfsalat, jede zweite Kartoffel und jedes fünfte Brot. Das meiste davon endet im Müll, bevor es überhaupt den Verbraucher erreicht. Und fast niemand kennt das Ausmaß der Verschwendung. Wer macht aus Essen Müll? Welche Folgen hat die globale Nahrungsmittel-Vernichtung für das Klima? Und für die E...

By: David Barkin

Presentation of an oral Session by David Barkin at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona wit the title "Degrowth: New Strategies for Strengthening Tradition". Barkin decrecbarcelona from Goteo / Platoniq

By: Emmanuel Pezrès

Poster by Emmanuel Pezrès from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Architecture and Degrowth? - How an Art of Production can fundamentally and voluntary degrow without disappearing".

By: Lucia Piani, Carlo Santarossa

Poster by Lucia Piani and Carlo Santarossa from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Alternative circuits on agrifood markets".