Bibliography

Here are some links to interesting convivial degrowth resources.

A number of interesting papers have recently appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals.

• Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm, Joan Martínez-Alier (a), Unai Pascual (b), Franck-Dominique Vivien (c) and Edwin Zaccai (d), Ecological Economics, Volume 69, Issue 9, 15 July 2010, Pages 1741-1747 [Note: This is a good overview, some say even a history, of degrowth thinking – Bob T..]
• An overview of degrowth research, Giorgos Kallis, Vasilis Kostakis, Steffen Lange, Barbara Muraca, Susan Paulson and Matthias Schmelzer
• “What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement”, by Federico Demaria, François Schneider, Filka Sekulova and Joan Martinez–Alier, in Environmental Values 22 (2013): pp 191–215
• Environment versus growth — A criticism of “degrowth” and a plea for “a-growth”, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, Ecological Economics, Article in Press
• In defence of degrowth, Giorgos Kallis, Ecological Economics, Forthcoming
• Questioning economic growth, Peter Victor, Nature, Vol.468 #18 pp. 370-371
• Editorial: Degrowth, Serge Latouche, Journal of Cleaner Production 18 (2010) pp. 519-522
• Economic de-growth vs. steady-state economy, Christian Kerschner, Journal of Cleaner Production 18 (2010) pp. 544–551
• Pachakuti: Indigenous Perspectives, Buen Vivir, Sumaq Kawsay and Degrowth, Bob Thomson, Development 2011 54(4) pp. 448-454

A selection of the proceedings of the May 1982 symposium, Les Enjeux Sociaux de la Dėcroissance, held at UQAM in Montreal is now available. (pp. 40 out of 250 – French only – PDF)

The proceedings of the 2002 “Actes du colloque – Défaire le developpement, refaire le monde”, held in Paris in February 2002 are now available online. Table des Matieres They are mostly in French and there is an immense richness of material there.

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Paris, 18-19 April 2008
Full proceedings (PDF – 320 pages – English
Table of Contents

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Barcelona, 26-29 March, 2010
Proceedings

Proceedings of the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas, Montreal, 13-19 May 2012

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Venice, 19-23 September 2012

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2-6 September 2014

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Budapest, 2016

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Malmo 2018

Proceedings of the First North/South International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Mexico 2018

Proceedings of the EU Seminar on ce on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Brussels 2018

A convivial degrowth bibliography, including Bob Thomson’s draft bibliography, can be found on the site of the Montreal 13-19 May 2012 International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas.