Household work and energy consumption: a degrowth perspective. Catalonia’s case study

D’Alisa, Giacomo; Cattaneo, Claudio

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.11.058

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“…At the same time, however, degrowth faces the paradox that democracy has historically been demanded as a bourgeois condition for unconstraint individual freedom and economic growth ( Deriu, 2012 ). The issue of work has been addressed from two angles, the reduction of working time as a concrete measure to implement degrowth (e.g., van den Bergh, 2011 ) and the dichotomy between paid and unpaid work ( D'Alisa and Cattaneo, 2013 , Nierling, 2012 , Andreoni and Galmarini, 2014 ). The anecdotal characterization of articles thus far is complemented by a detailed overview of the research presented in each individual article ( Table S2 in the Supplementary Material).…”

Section: Characterizing the Academic Degrowth Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research could seek to capture the variety of economic conditions or to dimension the potential of the Peer-to-Peer phenomenon ( Kostakis et al, 2016 ). Such research could also include value-creating practices performed as part of household chores, the amateur economy ( Nørgård, 2013 ), or unpaid work ( D'alisa and Cattaneo, 2013 ).…”

Section: Towards a Research Program On Degrowthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm

Weiss

Cattaneo

2017

Ecological Economics

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Degrowth has evolved within a decade from an activist movement into a multi-disciplinary academic paradigm. However, an overview taking stock of the peer-refereed degrowth literature is yet missing. Here, we review 91 articles that were published between 2006 and 2015. We find that the academic degrowth discourse occupies a small but expanding niche at the intersection of social and applied environmental sciences. The discourse is shaped by authors from high-income, mainly Mediterranean, countries. Until 2012, articles largely constitute conceptual essays endorsed by normative claims. More recently, degrowth has branched out into modelling, empirical assessments, and the study of concrete implementations. Authors tend to agree in that economic growth cannot be sustained ad infinitum on a resource constraint planet and that degrowth requires far reaching societal change. Whether degrowth should be considered as a collectively consented choice or an environmentally-imposed inevitability constitutes a major debate among degrowth thinkers. We argue that the academic discourse could benefit from rigid hypotheses testing through input-output modelling, material flow analysis, life-cycle assessments, or social surveys. By analyzing the potentials for non-market value creation and identifying concrete well-being benefits, the degrowth discourse could receive wider public support and contribute to a paradigmatic change in the social sciences.

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Section: Characterizing the Academic Degrowth Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Towards a Research Program On Degrowthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm

Weiss

Cattaneo

2017

Ecological Economics

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“…Mobility is then increasingly regarded as a service (Kanninen et al 2010;Kamargianni et al 2015). Similarly, both in degrowth and transition campaigns, the determinism of evermore housing space per capita is challenged by neighbourhood and household level initiatives that creatively re-design rooms for housing (D'Alisa & Cattaneo 2013;Cattaneo & Gavalda 2015;Lietaert 2015).…”

Section: Arguing For Degrowthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Degrowth in city planning

Lehtinen¹

2018

Fennia

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This paper summarises the key arguments of degrowth thinking and examines their validity in a city planning setting. The paper argues that much of the reorientation work that is necessary to meet the goals of international climate change conventions needs to be carried out locally, in urban and regional settings, and this creates pressure to renew land-use planning practices. It also argues that in light of the latest carbon footprint studies the currently popular linking of urban planning motives with the doctrine of 'compactness policy' -which aims at urban core densification and accumulation of growth options -needs to be re-evaluated. The empirical part of the paper focuses on the inner city planning of Joensuu, a city in Eastern Finland with 75,000 inhabitants which has increasingly been criticised by some residents, civil servants and civic action groups for one-sided promotion of the central city. This is, according to critics, taking place at the cost of the surrounding countryside and peri-urban nodes. The paper illustrates how the 'tactics of growth' become manifest in the official local planning procedure and to what degree the planning critique, explicitly or implicitly, leans on degrowth concerns. The gathering of the empirical material progressed as part of my involvement in the local degrowth movement, Kohtuusliike, which actively participated in the preparation of the Central Joensuu General Plan 2012.

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“…They prefer the contraction of economies as over consumption lies at the root of long term environmental and social problems. It is easier to avoid a climate change disaster with less growth [20]. But socially, lack of growth in the Western economies may be problematic or even catastrophic.…”

Section: De-linking Re-linking and De-growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Note: De-Growth Debate and New Scientific Analysis of Economic Growth

Kaivo‐oja¹,

Vehmas²,

Luukkanen³

2014

JEP

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This article is a theoretical note on de-growth debate. The article includes an analysis of economic growth and alternative growth paths. The article is focused on the concepts of de-linking, re-linking and de-growth. We connected linking analysis (de-linking and re-linking) analytically to the de-growth debate. On the basis of our framework, special cases of de-growth in the linking process relate to strong re-linking, weak re-linking and recessive de-linking. This kind of theoretical approach helps us to define the special nature of de-growth. Key finding of us is that only the de-growth case of recessive de-linking meets the condition of environmental sustainability. However, this case does not fulfil the criteria of sustainable development defined in the WCSD context. In the linking process, the WCSD conditions of sustainable development are met in the strong de-linking process only. In our analytical framework, the theoretical concepts of de-growth and sustainable development seem to conflict by definition.

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Household work and energy consumption: a degrowth perspective. Catalonia’s case study

Cited by 36 publications

References 30 publications

Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm

Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm

Degrowth in city planning

A Note: De-Growth Debate and New Scientific Analysis of Economic Growth

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