Degrowth has been launched into the political arena by activists and intellectuals as a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability. This overview of degrowth offers to the English speaking-world a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful for intervening in current political debates and fro bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global. The result is be the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.
Romano, O. (2015). Anti-utilitarianism. In Giacomo D'Alisa Federico Demaria Giorgos Kallis (a cura di), Degrowth. A Vocabulary for a New Era (pp. 21-24). GBR : Routledge [http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203796146].
Anti-utilitarianism
ROMANO, Onofrio
2015-01-01
Abstract
Degrowth has been launched into the political arena by activists and intellectuals as a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability. This overview of degrowth offers to the English speaking-world a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful for intervening in current political debates and fro bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global. The result is be the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
