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By: Riccardo Mastini

Introduction: Unbridled growth appears to be at odds with social well-being and environmental sustainability. How might we develop a model that reduces the imperative for growth while maintaining economic stability?

By: Stephen Quilley, Kaitlin Kish

Highlights • Entanglement of socio-ecological systems is described from a historical perspective. • Entanglement of traditional growth economics, the sanctity of the sovereign individual and complexity is analysed. • We present five cherished norms and dimensions of progressive modernity and how limiting growth economic may change them. First Page Preview

By: I.L.A. Kollektiv

Kapitel aus dem Buch "Auf Kosten Anderer? - Wie die imperiale Lebensweise ein gutes Leben für alle verhindert" vom I.L.A.Kollektiv. Einführung: Wer kennt ihn nicht? Den Drang ›online zu gehen‹, um Teil der digitalen Welt zu werden und nichts von dem zu verpassen, was dort vor sich geht. Heute ist jeder vierte Mensch auf der Welt bei Facebook registriert. Jeden Tag werden über 150 Millionen S...

By: Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta, Arturo Escobar, Ariel Salleh

A dialogue between Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Alberto Acosta and Federico Demaria, moderated by Ashish Kothari

By: Friederike Habermann, Anja Humburg

Debattenbeitrag in der taz "Gegen eine Vereinnahmung der Postwachstumsdebatte von rechts hilft: ehrlich über Entfremdung und Privilegien sprechen."

By: Giorgos Kallis, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Chapter in the "Handbook on Growth and Sustainability" Edited by Peter A. Victor and Brett Dolter About the book: This Handbook assembles original contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees and Tim Jackson who have helped to define our understanding of growth and sustainability. The Handbook also pre...

By: Clive L. Spash, Armin Puller, Tone Smith, Arild Vatn, Alf Hornborg, Ariel Salleh, Ali Douai, Eric Berr, Karolina Safarzynska, Kozo Torasan Mayumi, Armin Dieter, Fridolin Krausmann, Vincent Devictor, Richard B. Norgaard, Lorenz Stör, Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen, Joan Martinez-Alier, Viviana Asara, Asad Zaman, Peter E. Earl, Karin Dobernig, Wolfgang J. Fellner, John O’Neill, Katie McShane, Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann, Richard B. Howarth, Andy Stirling, Irmi Seidl, Roger Strand, Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, Salvatore Greco, Giuseppe Munda, Rebecca White, Ben Davies, Kirsty L. Blackstock, Jasper Kenter, Nuno Videira, Paula Antunes, Rui Santos, Jon D. Erickson, Melinda Kane, Philippe Roman, Géraldine Thiry, Bengi Akbulut, Patrick Bond, Begüm Özkaynak, Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos, Christian Kerschner, Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Max Koch, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Daniel Hausknost, Brian Czech, Niko Paech, Molly Scott Cato, Laura Frye-Levine, Richard S. Levine, Nadia Johanisova, Eva Fraňková, Fikret Adaman, Pat Devine

Contents Part I Foundations 1. Social ecological economics - Clive L. Spash 2. A critical and realist approach to ecological economics - Armin Puller and Tone Smith Part II Heterodox thought on the environment 3. Critical institutional economics - Arild Vatn 4. Political ecology and unequal exchange - Alf Hornborg 5. Ecofeminism - Ariel Salleh 6. Ecological Marxism and ecological ec...

By: Giorgos Kallis, Angelos Varvarousis, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Manuel Castells, Sviatlana Hlebik, Lana Swartz, Lisa Servon, Sarah Pink, Kirsten Seale

Description on Wiley.com: Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life. A number of economic practices and organi...

By: Erik Assadourian

Introduction: I’m sure that some will criticize the insensitivity of the timing of this essay. How can you talk about Puerto Rico, climate change, and degrowth at this tragic time? But what time is better than now? There are only going to be more disasters and more tragic times ahead. And if after each one we spend billions on rebuilding costly infrastructure, the resulting carbon emissions are...

By: Marc Clauson

Introduction: Tom Rogan in the Washington Examiner wrote a very interesting piece on the new expression of an old idea–”degrowth.” (see http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-far-left-has-an-idiotic-new-craze-reduce-economic-growth/article/2631274). He leads with these words: “Even the Soviets sought to maximize economic output. But today’s contemporary far-left are far bolder: they believe that...

By: Richard Swift, Naresh Giangrande

Co-Founder of the Transition Movement, Naresh Giangrande in conversation with Richard Swift, author of SOS Alternatives to Capitalism and a former editor of New Internationalist magazine for more than two decades. These two thinkers were brought together in the Caribbean island of Dominica, with Earthbooktv's Jessica Canham and Timothy Speaks Fishleigh at the Earthbook retreat centre in the...

By: Frank Adler, Ulrich Brand, Felix Ekardt, Uta von Winterfeld, Corinna Burkhart, Matthias Schmelzer, Nina Treu, Dagmar Comtesse, Christoph Sanders, Maik Hosang, Jana Flemming, Frank Adloff, Fritz Reheis, Oliver Richters, Andreas Siemoneit, Steffen Liebig, Christoph Köhler, Robert Koepp, Ulrich Schachtschneider, Helge Peukert, Damian Ludewig, Jana Gebauer, Steffen Lange, Dirk Posse, Harald Bender, Norbert Bernholt, Eva Lang, Theresia Wintergerst, Hans-Peter Studer, Daniel Fuhrhop, Michael Kopatz

Herausgeber_innen: Wie werden demokratische Übergänge zu einem Leben und Wirtschaften möglich, deren Qualität und Stabilität nicht vom permanenten ökonomischen Wachstum abhängen? Reicht dafür eine Bottom-up-Strategie? Reichen all die Non-profit-Unternehmen, Tauschläden und Kulturen des Selbermachens als Keime einer im Entstehen begriffenen Postwachstumsökonomie und -gesellschaft? Wir meinen: Ne...

By: Christoph Gran

Der Verlag: Der zentrale Stellenwert, den Wirtschaftswachstum in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, aber auch in Medien, Politik und der Öffentlichkeit einnimmt, wird angesichts der massiven Überschreitung ökologischer Grenzen sowie des schwindenden Zusammenhangs von Wirtschaftswachstum und Lebensqualität zunehmend infrage gestellt. Hinzu kommt, dass in vielen frühindustrialisierten Ländern, so auc...

By: Carina Millstone

We live in unprecedented times. Climate change and ecosystem collapse are altering our world beyond recognition, and a growing global population is exacerbating the pressure on the resources that power our economies. How should the private sector respond to the new risks and uncertainties of our Crowded Planet? Frugal Value contests the notion that companies can rise to the great challenges ...

By: Elliot Hurst

Comment from Elliot Hurst on the novel "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin. Introduction: It won all the prizes when it came out and is considered a classic. Ursula Le Guin grew up with an anthropologist father. As she puts it ‘Even though I didn’t pay much attention, I heard a lot of interesting, grown-up conversation’. This was one early influence that guided her to creating societies ful...

By: Kate Aronoff, Kevin Anderson

"Bonn — This week, world leaders are convening along a sleepy stretch of Germany’s Rhine River for COP23, the first UN climate talks to be held since Trump announced he will withdraw United States from the Paris Agreement, the landmark climate deal arrived at in 2015. Yet while the administration’s fossil-fuel boosterism has grabbed headlines about COP23 stateside, the UNFCCC process has mor...

By: Lorenzo Fioramonti

GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our economic system which values GDP above all else as a measure of prosperity and growth. In this provocative and inspiring new book, ...

By: Dagmar Embshoff, Clarita Müller-Plantenberg, Giuliana Giorgi

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um die Solidarische Ökonomie geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl ...

By: Jonathan Barth, Christoph Gran, Tanja von Egan-Krieger

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um die Plurale Ökonomik geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl bei di...

By: Samuel Alexander

This text provides a deep but accessible introduction to the life and ideas of one of the simple living movement's greatest pioneers - Henry David Thoreau.