Post-growth strategies can be more feasible than techno-fixes: Focus on working time

Antal, Miklós

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“…As the access to services can lead to increased use in turn (Frenken and Schor, 2017) further research on time use preferences is needed. Economic system : reducing working hours could alleviate time squeezes and enable spending more time with high quality of life and low-carbon activities in all other categories, for example with the family or in community activities or using less carbon intensive transport. Clearly, such reductions shouldn't lead to decreasing incomes below adequate levels (for further discussion, see: Wiedenhofer et al, 2018; Antal, 2018). Overall, such a measure could be advantageous for gender equality as well as for climate change mitigation. Community system : leisure activities mostly have a low carbon intensity, while few activities involve high costs and highest carbon emissions.…”

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“…Economic system : reducing working hours could alleviate time squeezes and enable spending more time with high quality of life and low-carbon activities in all other categories, for example with the family or in community activities or using less carbon intensive transport. Clearly, such reductions shouldn't lead to decreasing incomes below adequate levels (for further discussion, see: Wiedenhofer et al, 2018; Antal, 2018). Overall, such a measure could be advantageous for gender equality as well as for climate change mitigation.…”

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Time Matters: The Carbon Footprint of Everyday Activities in Austria

Smetschka

Wiedenhofer

Egger

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Ecological Economics

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Mitigating climate change to achieve the goal of staying below 2 °C of warming requires urgent reductions of emissions. Demand-side measures mostly focus on the footprints of consumption. Analysing time use can add to understand the carbon implications of everyday life and the potentials and limitations for decarbonising consumption better. We investigate the carbon footprints of everyday activities in Austria. We linked data from the Austrian Time-use Survey and the Austrian Household Budget Survey with the Eora-MRIO for 2009–2010 in order to estimate the household carbon footprints of all time-use activities. We introduce a functional time-use perspective differentiating personal, committed, contracted and free time to investigate the average carbon intensity of activities per hour, for an average day and for the average woman and man. We find that personal time is relatively low-carbon, while household as well as leisure activities show large variation in terms of CO2e footprint/h. The traditional gendered division of labour shapes the time-use patterns of women and men, with implications for their carbon footprints. Further research analysing differences in household size, income, location and availability of infrastructure in their relation to time use is crucial to be able to assess possible pathways towards low carbon everyday life.

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Time Matters: The Carbon Footprint of Everyday Activities in Austria

Smetschka

Wiedenhofer

Egger

et al. 2019

Ecological Economics

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“…Foster, 2017; Nørgård, 2013; Sekulova et al., 2013), ‘post‐growth’ (e.g. Antal, 2018; Johnsen et al., 2017; Schulz & Bailey, 2014; Strunz & Schindler, 2017) or ‘post‐capitalist’ (e.g. Blühdorn, 2017; Pitts & Dinerstein, 2017; S. Wright, 2010; Zanoni et al., 2017).…”

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Transformative perspectives on labour geographies – The role of labour agency in processes of socioecological transformations

Grenzdörffer

2021

Geography Compass

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Both geographical research on socioecological transformations and labour geography see decisive deficiencies in current capitalist structures centred around growth. To highlight possibilities of economic pluralism, both fields analyse diverse economic spaces within, next to and beyond capitalist structures. A basic assumption in transformation perspectives is that economic structures are not fixed, but can be transformed by people as economic actors. This corresponds to the concept of 'labour agency' from labour geography, i.e. that workers as active agents are able to (re)shape the structures they are embedded in.Despite those common perspectives, these threads of research coexist without having been intertwined. With a focus on wage labour, this paper addresses the potential for an integrative perspective illustrated by the example of companies owned/managed by workers. In charge of their own skills, time and resources, workers can actively break with prevalent market logics, which incentivise trading (human) resources at the lowest price possible. By rejecting core dynamics of capitalist structures, these companies illustrate the workers' potential key role in processes of socioecological transformations. Thus, the derived objectives of this paper are (1) to analyse and accentuateThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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“…Examples for the first challenge are debates on the role of Earth System Sciences (Hamilton, 2016) and the social sciences and humanities, respectively (Lövbrand et al, 2015; Malm and Hornborg, 2014), in conceptualizing the Anthropocene. The second challenge becomes visible in debates on the role of global capitalism (Malm and Hornborg, 2014; Moore, 2016; Soriano, 2018), of technology (Haff, 2014) and on the needs or options for degrowth (Antal, 2018; Reichel and Perey, 2018). Here, the Anthropocene is closely linked to debates on societal transformations, on sustainable and desirable futures and how to achieve them (Bai et al, 2016).…”

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Scrutinizing the Great Acceleration: The Anthropocene and its analytic challenges for social-ecological transformations

Görg

Plank

Wiedenhofer

et al. 2019

The Anthropocene Review

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Despite considerable advancements over the last couple of years, research on the Anthropocene still faces at least two challenges: (1) integrating different approaches from natural, social and cultural sciences, and (2) clarifying the political relevance of this concept. To address these challenges, we propose an interdisciplinary approach from Social Ecology and Political Economy which combines research on social metabolism with a historical approach to capitalist development. We argue that such an interdisciplinary approach can help to better understand the Great Acceleration of production and consumption and the related surge in global resource flows. The observation of such an acceleration in the physical growth of societies, in turn, is perceived as the most convincing argument to explain fundamental shifts in the state and functioning of the Earth system, the Anthropocene. Our approach emphasizes that the Great Acceleration was not homogeneous, neither in space nor in time. Instead, spatial varieties and different historical trajectories must be considered which allow for the differentiation of two phases of accelerated resource use, taking place in different world regions. In this article, we propose an integrated research framework for the study of the Great Acceleration, illustrate the insights to which its application leads and discuss the political relevance of the Anthropocene for further research on social-ecological transformations.

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Post-growth strategies can be more feasible than techno-fixes: Focus on working time

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Time Matters: The Carbon Footprint of Everyday Activities in Austria

Time Matters: The Carbon Footprint of Everyday Activities in Austria

Transformative perspectives on labour geographies – The role of labour agency in processes of socioecological transformations

Scrutinizing the Great Acceleration: The Anthropocene and its analytic challenges for social-ecological transformations

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