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Daniela del Bene
Gualter Baptista – Activist-researcher and Project manager
Dr. Gualter Barbas Baptista, Activist-researcher and project manager Dr. Gualter Barbas Baptista is an activist-researcher and project manager at Transition Town Witzenhausen, Förderverein Wachstumswende and Research & Degrowth. He is currently coordinating the EU education project “GROWL – Learning More, Growing Less” and organising the Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity. He…
Viviana Asara
Simone d’Alessandro – University of Pisa
Simone D’Alessandro, Assistant Professor, University of Pisa He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics since January 2009. He was previously a Post-Doc Research Fellow (2-year grant) at the same Department. He received the Master and PhD degrees in Economics at the University of Siena. He was visiting research student at the Department of…
Lecturers 2014
Course and Guest Speakers Below is a list of speakers who will be presenting at the Degrowth Summer School 2014: ICTA-UAB Speakers Guest Speakers Viviana Asara – ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain Simone d’Alessandro – University of Pisa Daniela del Bene – ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain Gualter Baptista Claudio Cattaneo – ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain Fabrice Flipo – Telecom &…
School Venue
Summer School Venue The Summer School will take place at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Cerdanyola del Vallès, only 20 km away from Barcelona city centre. Daily field visits will be organised for the weekends How to get there The best way to reach the UAB Campus is by ferrocarril (FGC): Lines S2 and…
Reading Material 2014
Syllabus & Recommended Reading Full syllabus in PDF version here. ICTA/R&D Articles Demaria, F., Schneider, F., Sekulova, F., MartinezAlier,J. 2013. ‘What is degrowth? From an activist slogan to a social movement’. Environmental Values 22: 191-215. (20 pages) Schneider, F., Kallis, G., MartinezAlier J. 2010. ‘Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability….
Application Information
Application Information The summer school is designated for PhD and master students, as well as for senior researchers from multiple disciplines. Deadline for applications is April, 30th, 2016. Please send in a single pdf document your CV and a cover letter of maximum one-page explaining your motivation and background to summerschool {at} degrowth.net. The selection…
Degrowth Summer School 2014
Degrowth Summer School 2014: Adapting to the times of crisis, an advanced course on socially sustainable degrowth Amidst calls for restoring growth as a path out of the crisis, the intellectual and political degrowth movement exposes the impossibility to greening economic growth, or making it equitable. In theoretical terms degrowth implies a radical critique to…