Degrowth by means of technology? A treatise for an ethos of releasement [PDF]
, 2018 The large-scale ecological damage caused by growth societies calls for economic degrowth in terms of a radical decrease in matter/energy throughput. This article examines the role of modern technology in degrowth with a focus on the question of agency ...
Heikkurinen, P
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Building solidarities and alliances between degrowth and food sovereignty movements
Journal of Political EcologyDegrowth and food sovereignty movements share commitments to social-ecological transformation, democracy and the flourishing of human and non-human life. Encounters between the two movements have been relatively limited, however.
Christina Plank +9 more
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Moins de biens pour plus de liens : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, décroissanciste avant l’heure ?
Astérion, 2019 Rousseau’s writings are far from the current developments of the capitalist economy, but they do foreshadow many of its consequences. The link between his philosophy and degrowth thinking illuminates both his approach and the genealogy of this economical
Pierre Crétois
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Transitions towards new economies? A transformative social innovation perspective [PDF]
, 2015 There are numerous social innovation networks and initiatives worldwide with the ambition to contribute to transformative change towards more sustainable, resilient and just societies.
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, 2016 This is the edited transcript of a conversation between Rebecca Bramall, editor of this special issue, Jeremy Gilbert, editor of New Formations, and James Meadway, who at the time was chief economist of the New Economics Foundation and is currently ...
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Re-establishing Justice as a Pillar of Ecological Economics Through Feminist [PDF]
, 2018 Ecological economics has long claimed distributive justice as a central tenet, yet discussions of equity and justice have received relatively little attention over the history of the field.
Erickson, J.D. +2 more
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Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability [PDF]
, 2017 Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? This overview paper addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, how, and when conflicts over the use of the environment may take an active role ...
Demaria, F. (Federico) +3 more
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Education, Longing, and the Art of Keeping Life Going
Nordic Studies in EducationThis article offers a critical appraisal of the term degrowth by questioning some of its basic epistemological and ontological assumptions. Rather provocatively, we suggest that both education and degrowth are chained to a logic of progressive ...
Anne Pirrie, Kari Marie Manum
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10-05 "The Macroeconomics of Development without Throughput Growth" [PDF]
Serious discussion has begun of policies to promote the goal of increasing well-being without material growth. Moving towards this goal requires a profound reorientation of macroeconomic theory. Importantly, the call by ecological economists to move away
Jonathan M. Harris
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The architectural and environmental retrofitting of public social housing as a resource for contemporary cities. The redesign of building envelopes [PDF]
, 2016 The current focus on the transformation of Western cities puts forward, in a shared and far-reaching manner, ‘degrowth’ as an opportunity to renew and update the perspective of sustainability, not only from an environmental point of view, but from a ...
Bianchi, Roberto, Paris, Spartaco
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