Degrowth: setting the stage – Filka Sekulova (ICTA-UAB) Monday 6th July, 12.00-13.30, UAB Campus This semi-introductory explorative lecture will set the stage for the summer school, bringing the seeds of the discussions yet to come and knitting the logical (and illogical) threads between the analytical and prescriptive elements of degrowth. Starting with the common misinterpretations and…
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Welcome event
Sunday 25th July, 16.30-21.00 – Parc of Collserola (Barcelona) The Welcome Event will take place in the Parc of Collserola, the natural park surrounding Barcelona. The spot is in between Barcelona city centre and the UAB Campus and you can easily reach it by train from Plaza Catalunya in about 30 minutes. You should take…
Degrowth and the new left
Degrowth and the new left: trapped between anti-austerity and pro-growth politics? – Federico Demaria (ICTA-UAB) Tuesday 14th July, 12.00-13.30 – Cerbère (France) A new Left, new in terms of ideas, but also in terms of the young age of its members, is rising in Europe, from Spain and Catalonia, to Greece, Slovenia or Croatia. Will that…
energy sovereignity
Degrowth proposals from the North: energy sovereignity – Pablo Cotarelo (Ecologists in Action) Monday 13th July, 12.00-13-30 – Cerbère (France) Energy sovereignty is the right of conscious individuals, communities and peoples tomake their own decisions regarding the generation, distribution and consumption of energy, so that these are appropriate totheir ecological, social, economic and cultural…
What about technology and sciences
What about technology and sciences ? – Sylvain Fischer (R&D France) Monday 13th July, 10.00-11.30 – Cerbère (France) In the year 1637, René Descartes proposed a method for understanding the nature with the hope that humans can become « like masters and possessors of nature ». The four next centuries generalized progressively the cartesian rationalism, even yielding…
From limits to growth to the green economy
From limits to growth to the green economy – Erik Gomez-Baggethun (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research) Sunday 12th July, 12.00-13.30 – Cerbère (France) More than four decades since the launch of a global agenda for environmental governance, international policy has failed to reverse climate change, resource depletion and the generalized decline of biodiversity and ecological…
protection of collserola
Protection of Collserola – Claudio Cattaneo (R&D) Friday 10th July, 16.50-17.10 – Can Masdéu (Barcelona) Collserola is a mountain range in the middle of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area that has been greatly urbanized and, a fraction of it is, since a few years only, protected as a natural park. The fight for its declaration…
methodological training
Methodological training: Social Multi-criteria evaluation, Gonzalo Gamboa (ICTA-UAB) Thursday 9th July, 15.00-17.00, UAB Campus Traditional top-down and technocratic approaches seem to be insufficient to tackle the many conflicts related to the sustainable use of natural resources. At the same time, reductionist and mono-disciplinary approaches lack the capacity to capture the complex interactions within evolving…
degrowth and democracy
Degrowth, environmental justice, direct and deliberative democracy – Christos Zografos (ICTA-UAB) Thursday 9th July, 12.00-13.30, UAB Campus This lecture provides links between democracy and degrowth, specifically by presenting and reflecting upon the possible role of direct democracy for achieving degrowth transformations. The relevance of democracy for degrowth is paramount. Recently, key degrowth scholars have argued…
the degrowth alternative
The degrowth alternative – Giorgos Kallis (ICTA-UAB) Thursday 9th July, 10.00-11.30, UAB Campus Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation “green growth” depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and…