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Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological
Sustainability and Social Equity
Paris, 18-19 April 2008
Goals
- Overview of the state-of-the-art of degrowth research, debates
and movements
- Encouraging degrowth research and identifying degrowth research
gaps
- Exploration of campaign tools for equity and sustainability
- Position/Statement on Growth and Degrowth
Other outcomes
- Proceedings
- Internet discussion on www.degrowth.net
Day 1 Friday 18
April 2008 - Visions of degrowth by themes
The first day is about a partial / sector-based visionary
perspective of de-growth
9.00 - Opening, by Organisation and Scientific
Committee
Fabrice Flipo – Institut Telecom SudParis
Joan Martinez-Alier - UAB
Wolfgang Sachs – Wuppertal Institute
Sylvia Lorek & Friedrich Hinterberger - SERI
Thomas Schauer/ Raoul Weiler - Club of Rome
François Schneider & Denis Bayon - Research and Degrowth
9:30 - First Panels
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Historic panel:
From growth critics to degrowth |
Chair: Friedrich Hinterberger
Keynote
of the chair person De-growth as a solution
to ‘uneconomic’ growth - Philip Lawn
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Macro-Rebound effect - François
Schneider
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Crises with growth-as-usual - Richard
Douthwaite & David Korowicz
abstract - ppt
presentation - paper
De-growth or recession? - Daniel O’Neill
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper |
Chair : Joan Martinez-Alier
Keynote of the chair person
abstract - ppt
presentation - paper
Introduction to Georgescu-Roegen and Degrowth
- Jacques Grinevald
abstract - ppt presentation - paper
eSNI early growth critics - Roefie Hueting
abstract
- presentation
- paper
Conceptual roots of degrowth - Fabrice
Flipo
abstract - ppt presentation - paper
Nascent History of Steady State Politics
- Brian Czech
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
To shortcut a third rail issue - Christer
Sanne
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper |
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Contributors
that could not attend the conference |
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The ecological crisis needs a revolution in service
economy - Jean Gadrey
abstract - paper
(french only)
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11:15 - Special applications
(10 minutes each with questions)
14:00 / 15 : 15 - Second Panels session (1 hour
15 minutes)
15:30 / 16:45 - Roundtables (1 hour 15)
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| Chair : Joan Martinez-Alier
Short introduction of different representatives of degrowth
movements
Leida Rijnhout, VODO Belgium
Sara Vegni, ASUD Italy - contribution
David Woodward, (formerly nef), UK
Bravo Elizabeth, Accion Ecologica, Equador
Leire Urkidi, UAB
Gregor Meerganz, UAB, Spain
abstract - ppt presentation - paper
“Degrowth” to build convergence for a
fair and sustainable world - Francois Schneider,
R&D, France
abstract - ppt
presentation - paper
Policy:
Sara Kjellstrand, Research Programme Officer in the European
Commission’s Directorate General Research, Sustainable
Development Unit |
Chair : Christer Sanne
Economic localisation - Friedrich Hinterberger
abstract - ppt presentation - paper
The issue of degrowth and SCP policy agenda
- Arnold Tukker
abstract - ppt
presentation - paper
Sharing work - Christer Sanne
abstract - ppt
presentation - paper
Redistribution - Maurie Cohen
abstract - ppt presentation - paper
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17:15 / 18:30 - Third panel session (1 hour 15
min)
Panel 1
Consumption degrowth vs other sources of well-being |
Panel 2
Sharing
work |
Panel 3
Production
degrowth |
Panel 4
Redistribution |
Panel 5
What statutes for economic actors? |
Chair: Sylvia Lorek
Italy : issues in dematerialization and environmental
load displacement - Valeria Andreoni & al.
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Sustainable Consumption: Collection of Perspectives
from the institutional actors in Europe -Nguyen
et Khan
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
From Eco-modernism to Socio-ecologism
- Eva Friman
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper |
Chair: Christer Sanne
Degrowth
and universal revenue - Baptiste Mylondo
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
Degrowth professional orientation -
Arnaud du Crest
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
A human rights based political economy
- Manuel Couret Branco
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
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Chair: Oksana Mont
The Contribution of Precaution for
Design - Cucuzzella Carmela
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
IT as Facilitator of Material Degrowth and the
Problem of Rebound Effects - Thomas Schauer
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
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Chair: Maurie Cohen
The Nascent Policy Debate on Rationing - Maurie
Cohen
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Understanding the effect of demographic trends and labour market
institutions on the demand for public environmental protection
- Lisa Magnani
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
Multiple benefits of localisation - Nicolas Louchet
& Jean-Marc Deltorn
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
Is localisation of economy a step towards degrowth ? Case study
in France - Pierre Courjault-Rade
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper |
Chair: Friedrich Hinterberger
Economic De-growth as Corporate Competitive Advantage?
- André Reichel
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
Perspectives for a new redirected competition
in a de-growth-economy - Volker Mauerhofer
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
De-growth as structural change: an institutional
evolutionary approach - Gerardo Marletto
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
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| Contributors
that could not attend the conference |
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The labor question in problematics of transition
- A. Arnaud & al.
abstract - paper
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What monetary resources for a degrowth economy
? - Denis Bayon & Hélène Blanc
abstract
- paper |
20:00 - Evening Meal
- Informal Meetings
DAY 2- Saturday 19 April 2008
- Socio-economic processes and democracy for degrowth
Dealing with societal values and economic degrowth as
a whole
9:15 - Panels on macro socio-economic processes
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| Chair: Fabrice Flipo
The difficult path towards degrowth within involutive
development of the West - Pascal van Griethuysen
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Opening negociation - Grégoire
Wallenborn
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Less is more: The effects of high aspirations on
well-being - Astrid Matthey and Nadja Dwenger
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Psychological barriers to de-growth… and how
to overcome them - Thompson & Abdallah
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Degrowth and « anti-utilitarism » -
Onofrio Romano
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Moral values of degrowth - F. P. Piguet,
J. Van Niel et C. Lavallez
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
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Chair : Joachim Spangenberg
Is de-growth possible? Co-evolution and control
- Peter Bodø et al.
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Measures for collective reduction of material acquisition
capacity of affluent countries - Joachim Spangenberg
abstract - ppt
presentation - paper
Why growth ? Causes, welfare fallacies and how to
repair them - Gjalt Huppes
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
De-growth: Addressing Cultural and Institutional
Constraints - Igor Matutinovic
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Politics and actual de-growth in the era of the services
economy and global financial power - Maurizio
Ruzzene
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
On the Way towards a De-growth Society: A Review
of Transformation Scenarios and Desirable Visions of the Future
- Schriefl et Exner
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
Searching for a shared imaginary. A systemic approach
to degrowth and politics - Mauro Bonaiuti
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
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Contributors
that could not attend the conference |
System challenges in addressing sustainable consumption
and production: growth, speed, and profit - Robert
Nemeskeri et al.
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
+ appendix |
The de-growth economy and lifestyles - Brian
Davey
abstract
- paper
Evaluation des conditions et possibilités
de création d'une Centrale Economique - Luquet
J.-M. & Gilles
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
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11:30 - Posters Tour
14:00 / 15:45 - Forum
and workshops
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Workshop 1
Conference
statement |
Workshop 2
Degrowth
research
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For the inclusion of de-growth as a possible
option of the democracies, about the importance of democratic
and participative processes at all levels (economic, social,
environmental, local and global level…) for de-growth
Chair : François Schneider
Degrowth and democracy. Towards a post-developmentalist
politics - Marco Deriu
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
Forces and relations of production = the structure
of power - Willem Hoogendijk
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
Democracy for degrowth - Toby Quantrill,
WWF
abstract - ppt
presentation - paper
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Hali Healy
Earlier conference statements
against growth : CASSE / ESEE, Tilburg, Brussels...
Documents
for workshop |
Fritz Hinterberger & Fabrice Flipo
Relaunch of the Sustainable Europe theme ?
Documents
and forum for workshop preparation
Main
conclusions
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16:15 /18:15 - Forum and workshops
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Chair : Frederico de Maria
Policy and Technology Options for Reducing Resource ion in
a Degrowth Economy - Katherine Trajan & Kealan
Gell
abstract
- ppt
presentation - paper
- poster
Degrowth as transition - Yannick
Rumpala
abstract
- ppt presentation - paper
Yves Cochet
abstract - ppt presentation - paper
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18:30 - Conclusion – Reports from workshops
• Endorsement of degrowth and growth conference statements?
• Proposal of political strategy
• Proposal of political measures
• Research plans
19:00 End of the conference
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