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The future of bicycling given a world in degrowth: perspectives and lessons based on the Central European project, BICY

open access: yes, 2012
The bicycle offers much for a world correcting through degrowth. As a resource-light vehicle, and long the most energy-efficient form of ground transport, bicycling offers low-carbon, healthy travel with superior mobility characteristics over motor ...
J. Meggs, SCHWEIZER, JOERG
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The vocabulary of degrowth: A roundtable debate

open access: yes, 2017
Roundtable about the book Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new era, published by Routledge in 2015. The roundtable took place at the ENTITLE conference in Stockholm, titled Undisciplined environments (20-24 March 2016). This is an edited transcription of the discussion.
Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina   +4 more
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Degrowth-ajattelu kiinteistötaloudessa

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Tässä opinnäytetyössä on tutkittu degrowth-ajattelun soveltamista kiinteistötalouden alalla. Lisäksi kirjallisuustutkimuksessa keskityttiin siihen, miten degrowth-periaatteet voivat muuttaa kiinteistötalouden käytäntöjä ja miten sen käyttöönotto ...
Kariniemi, Laura
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Degrowth

open access: yes, 2023
This article examines the idea of degrowth, a concept in political ecology used to envision a democratically planned downscaling of production and consumption in affluent regions of the world as a means to avoid ecological breakdown, decrease inequality,
Sam Bliss, Giorgos Kallis
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Planned Degrowth: Macroeconomic Coordination for Sustainable Degrowth

In view of the aggravating contemporary social and ecological crises, degrowth and post-growth has emerged as a new paradigm promoting a planned reduction of energy and resource use in the global North aimed at limiting environmental pressures, reducing global inequalities, and improving wellbeing. However, the specifics of such ‘planning beyond growth’
Elena Hofferberth   +2 more
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Degrowth

2018
The term 'degrowth' has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. <i>Degrowth</i> argues that economic growth is no longer desirable - its costs exceed its benefits - and advocates a transformation of economies so that they produce and consume less ...
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Degrowth

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
"We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust ...
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Towards a Society of Degrowth

2019
The book explores the concept of degrowth, beginning from a basic assumption, not of resource depletion, as is common in most literature in the field, but rather from a state of abundance, arguing that there is a vast amount of energy on the planet waiting to be utilized by all its inhabitants.
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