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By: Barbara Muraca

In her keynote speech, Barbara Muraca will outline the key strategies for degrowth, specifically reflecting on the following topics, which are also the guiding topics of the third day of the conference: -Changing networks of production and consumption and driving political action -Degrowth as a fundamentally social challenge, involving structural changes of social practices, institutions and ...

By: Hans-Joachim Lauth, Christian Wagner

Für die 8. Auflage wurde dieser Klassiker unter den Einführungen in die Politikwissenschaft erneut aktualisiert. Er gibt einen studien- und problemorientierten Überblick über die zentralen Fragestellungen und Themenfelder der Politikwissenschaft. Behandelt werden: Historische Entwicklung und aktueller Stand des Faches, seine theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen und – ausführlich – die ein...

By: Katja Kipping

Vortrag von Katja Kipping beim 16. BIEN-Kongress in Seoul 2016.

By: Alf Hornborg

An European Policy Brief of the European Commission of the project: FINANCIALISATION ECONOMY SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT From the text: What is the fundamental goal of this proposal? The most fundamental idea underlying this proposal is to insulate local human subsistence and livelihood from the vicissitudes of national and international economic cycles and financial...

By: Robert Orzanna

This is a collaborative podcast project to create an audio book version of the book “Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era” for various languages. English Deutsch Espanol Francais

By: Ulrich Brand

Rechte Wahlsiege in Argentinien und Venezuela, die brasilianische und bolivianische Regierung unter Druck. Gibt es noch linke Perspektiven in Lateinamerika? Und was brachten die bisherigen Versuche, auf dem Subkontinent eine andere Politik umzusetzen? Ulrich Brand hat Expert*innen vor Ort befragt und stellt die aktuellen Debatten dar. Ein Beitrag geht der Frage nach, was die europäische Linke v...

By: Bernhard Schmid

Aus dem Artikel: . . . Einer von Latouches zentralen Ansätzen ist die Kritik an der »Uniformierung der Welt«. Unter diesem Begriff fasst er Tendenzen zur Unterwerfung der Gesellschaft unter Kapitalimperative zusammen, die er jedoch um Aspekte des sogenannten Verlusts kultureller Identitäten ergänzt. Dies macht ihn für Rechtsextreme und Ideologen der naturnotwendigen Ungleichheit wie Alain de Be...

By: Vincent Liegey

Vincent Liegey answers questions about the current state of the degrowth movement, degrowth in Eastern Europe and about the European Union. From the text: These days, the degrowth movement is not interested in provocation anymore. Instead it wants to stimulate discussions amongst the people who believe that it is possible to decolonise our minds. Vincent Liegey, the coordinator of the latest...

By: Aaron Vansintjan

Over a year ago I lived in Barcelona, where I was lucky enough to witness a social movement—in large part fuelled by cooperatives, squats, and other autonomous spaces—win the mayoral elections. I had spent the year being involved with a group that studies and advocates ‘degrowth’—the idea that we must downscale production and consumption to have a more equitable society, and that we therefore m...

By: Ludivine Damay, Anne Guisset

In different cities around the world, one can find a lot of citizen initiatives that propose alternatives to the main consumerist and capitalist logic of production and consumption (Pleyers, 2011). They defend other conceptions of society through cooperative, networks for exchanging goods and services, collective vegetable gardens, “repair cafés”, local currencies, etc. This communication is ...

By: Klara Hajdu

Transition to a sustainable economy requires a fundamental change in how we use natural resources in a quantitative and qualitative way. Not only a substantial reduction of resource use is needed in a range of 3 to 5, but also a deep decarbonisation needs to take place, which results in zero GHG emissions by mid century. At the same time the growing national and international inequalities pose ...

By: Samuel Alexander

From the text: . . . Others have shown why limitless growth is a recipe for disaster. I’ve argued that living in a degrowth economy would actually increase well-being, both socially and environmentally. But what would it take to get there? In a new paper published by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, I look at government policies that could facilitate a planned transition beyond gro...

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Teaser: Manche Ökonomen haben eingesehen: Die Wirtschaft kann nicht immer weiter wachsen. Ihre Schlagworte sind Degrowth und Postwachstumsgesellschaft. Eine Gegenrede zu Rainer Hank. Der Artikel auf den sich diese Gegenrede bezieht ist hier zufinden.

By: Nafeez Ahmed

Report form the British All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Limits to Growth which launched a report on the same topic. From the text: A report commissioned on behalf of a cross-party group of British MPs authored by a former UK government advisor, the first of its kind, says that industrial civilisation is currently on track to experience “an eventual collapse of production and living s...

By: Fabian Scheidler

"Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy: Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, which is exactly what the common present...

By: Samuel Alexander

From the introduction: This paper provides a summary case for why there are, in fact, limits to growth, and outlines a range of bold policy interventions that would be required to produce a stable and flourishing post-growth economy. The analysis draws on and attempts to develop a rich array of thinking from literatures including ecological economics, eco-socialism, degrowth, and sustainable co...

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Felix Ekardt, Anja Humburg, Joachim Spangenberg, Joachim Spangenberg

Sufficiency is the anti-thesis to the dominant orientation towards getting ever “more, further and faster”. Often treated as a lifestyle issue for the better-off, it essentially requires (1) a fundamental policy change to offering new opportunity spaces, from advertisement- and commerce free spaces via repairable design to reverting work intensification, and (2) a change in societal standards a...

By: Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins offers a Transition take on a recent blog by Sam Bliss, Aaron Vansintjan called ‘Degrowth Is Punk as F*ck‘. > Blog post ‘Degrowth Is Punk as Fuck‘

By: Piet Depuydt, Geert Gielens, Marius de Geus, Brent Bleys

At 19:30 on Tuesday the 19th April, deBuren held a debate which looked at the primacy of economic growth and it and degrowth’s relative merits. About the debate: In the last few years, the financial crisis and climate change have led more and more people to question the primacy of economic growth. Proponents of degrowth advocate a totally different sort of economics and a complete ch...

By: Lanka Horstink

Food, whether conceptualised as necessity, system or industry, is central to major social, economic and ecological challenges, both source and solution of wicked problems such as hunger, poverty, and climate change. It has been foundational to economic thinking and policies, from the first complete theory of economics by physiocrats, to classical economics and the sociologies of Marx, Weber and...