Topic 3: The anthropocene and the material basis of the economy
Videos:
(A) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-J91SwP8w
(B4) https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_hopkins_transition_to_a_world_without_oil#t-16615
(A) Webpage: (all concepts have to be known VERY WELL)
http://www.materialflows.net/methods/
Readings:
(A) Crutzen, P. J. (2002). Geology of mankind. Nature, 415(6867), 23-23.
(A) Georgescu Roegen: Minimal Bioeconomic Program
(B1) Moore,
Jason W.,
INTRODUCTION to "Anthropocene
or Capitalocene?
Nature, History,
and the Crisis
of Capitalism"
(2016). Sociology
Faculty
Scholarship. (available at
https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/1/
(B2) Fischer‐Kowalski, M., Krausmann, F., Giljum, S., Lutter, S., Mayer, A., Bringezu, S., ... & Weisz, H. (2011). Methodology and indicators of economy‐wide material flow accounting. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 15(6) (ONLY up to the first column of p. 862 PLUS my slides)
Further Readings (optional)
Daly, H. E. (2007). Ecological economics and sustainable development, selected essays of Herman Daly, Edward Elgar
Avallone G, Leonardi E, 2018, Anthropocene?
More like ‘Capitalocene’
https://global.ilmanifesto.it/anthropocene-more-like-capitalocene/
Spire S., 2018, Review:
Anthropocene or Capitalocene? https://www.simonspire.com/blog/anthropocene-or-capitalocene
Rockstrom et al. 2009, A safe operating space for humanity