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By: Lilian Pungas

Abstract: Agriculture is not only an essential nexus between society and nature but in its current industrial form also a possible threat to ecological stability. This article explores how a supplement to the conventional agrifood system alleviates the negative consequences of the industrial food production system that manifest through the metabolic rift (Marx, 1981). During fieldwork in Eston...

By: Patricia E. Perkins

<strong>Keywords:</strong> climate justice, community resilience, community development, climate risk reduction, extreme weather events, social capital, participatory governance, ecological economics, political ecology, ecofeminism, social learning, subsistence, resource governance, degrowth

By: Asmelash Dagne

Interview with Asmelash Dagne from the Solikon-Congress for Solidarity-based Economy and Transformation 2015 in Berlin. From the program: Small-holding farming and permaculture gardens have something in common: they provide their people with food and they are a self-providing or subsistance economy. Permaculture is also being used to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is helping far...

By: Samuel Alexander

Subtitle: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits The publisher: Calling for a sufficiency-based culture of 'simple living' to underpin a macroeconomic framework of 'degrowth', Samuel Alexander draws on a remarkable breadth of economic, political, ecological, and sociological literature to explore the radical implications of living in an age of limits. Written with clarity, rigour, and insig...

By: Robert Strauch

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Learning for degrowth.

By: Corinna Vosse, Dieter Haselbach

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Consumption.

By: Santiago Gorostiza

degrowth, autonomy, democracy, fascism, ruralism, Spain

By: Rita Calvario

Back-to-the-land, agri-food downscaling, degrowth transition

By: Ted Trainer

Abstract: The implications of de-growth are much more far reaching and radical than seems to be appreciated. It is important to start with a brief consideration of the magnitude and nature of the global predicament, because when this is understood it becomes clear firstly that consumer-capitalist society cannot be made sustainable or just, secondly that a satisfactory and viable post-capitalist...

By: Nadia Johanisovaa, Stephan Wolf

Abstract: As opposed to political democracy and its attempts at power control in the public sector, the concentration of economic power, and its antidote, the concept of economic democracy, has received much less attention. In the paper, we first offer a definition of economic democracy as a “a system of checks and balances on economic power and support for the right of citizens to actively par...

By: Sébastien Boillat, Julien-François Gerber, Fernando R. Funes-Monzote

Abstract: While degrowth is about reducing energy and material flows in the economy while sustaining basic human needs, capitalism fosters the opposite trend. How then is degrowth to be implemented on a large scale? In line with different critical intellectual traditions, we argue that degrowth is unlikely to occur within an economy based on capital accumulation and free market of assets. Our o...

By: Niko Paech, Björn Paech

Herausgeber: Der überbordende Konsumwohlstand ist einsturzgefährdet und unserem Wohlbefinden zunehmend abträglich. Suffizienz und urbane Selbstversorgung hingegen verringern die Abhängigkeit von Geld, Ressourcen und Wachstum. Dabei gewinnt die Kommune als bürgernahe Gestaltungsebene an Bedeutung.

By: Linda Nierling

Transcription of an oral session by Linda Nierling at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Recognition of unpaid work in the perspective of degrowth".

By: Christa Müller, Andrea Baier, Karin Werner

Auch im 21. Jahrhundert leben Menschen noch ebenso sehr von »Luft und Liebe« wie von Geld und Waren. Natur, Muße und Gemeinsinn bilden die Ressourcen, von denen und für die sie leben. Zwei Drittel der gesellschaftlich notwendigen Arbeit bestehen aus Hausarbeit, Eigenarbeit und Ehrenamt. Welche Bedeutung diese »andere Ökonomie« im Alltag von Menschen auch hierzulande immer noch hat, zeigt das v...

By: Wolfgang Sachs

Aus dem Text: Mobiltelefon, Laptop, digitale Photokamera, je kleiner, desto besser. Der über dreißig Jahre alte Buchtitel Small is Beautiful könnte auch der neueste Werbeslogan von Sony sein. Doch hinter der modernen Mini-Technologie versteckt sich immer noch der alte Industriegigantismus den Schumacher einst im Blick hatte. Essay über das Buch "Small ist Beautiful" von Ernst Friedrich Schum...