Degrowth as a territorial-landscape project

Authors

  • Serge Latouche Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Orsay, France

Abstract

The landscape, especially in a country like Italy, is today entirely man-made, and is the other face of urbancivilisation. We are faced with a paradox: we enjoy a very high competence of landscape architects, urbanand ecological planners, and we have a disastrous landscape, that is the result of the crisis of civilization.The fabric of local societies and urban landscapes can be reassembled and preserved only by insertingthem in the construction of a degrowth society. As part of promoting a serene society of degrowth,relocalization cannot be only an economic issue. Politics, culture, and the entire way of life must regaintheir territorial anchoring. The keyword is autonomy, obtained through actions aimed to “re-territorialise”,to re-find a site and re-inhabit it, to organise rural and urban bio-regions. A route of de-industrializationwill also be needed. Since the landscape is part of the commons, a policy of degrowth will imply theprotection of the landscape as well as the search for the common good.

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Published

2016-06-28

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Vol. 1 (2016): Crisis of Landscapes, Landscapes of the Crisis. What are the Solutions?

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