Cover photo of the current issue titeled "A future without growth"

LICHTGEDANKEN 07

The Research Magazine.
Cover photo of the current issue titeled "A future without growth"
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

Feature: »A future without growth«

We cannot carry on as we are: We are running out of time to tackle climate change; raw materials and fossil fuels are dwindling; and the older population in industrialized countries is growing. While in the past every crisis could be overcome by opening up new markets and resources and introducing new products and structures, the concept of perpetual growth has finally reached its limits. But what now? What will the world be like without growth? How will our living environment change with industry sectors falling by the wayside, skilled labour lacking, and young people moving away from entire regions? Sociologists from the University of Jena, alongside experts from other disci­plines, are thoroughly addressing these questions and taking an analytical and critical look at our future.critical look at our future.

Editorial

 

Dr Karina Becker has been the scientific director of the »Post-Growth Societies« research group.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Society at a turning point
Are we prepared for the »great transformation«?
Prof. Dr Klaus Dörre is a sociologist who researches and teaches on the change in working society.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Capitalism has reached its limits
Growth has become obsolete as an economic criterion
Blick in den ehemaligen Braunkohletagebau Cottbus-Nord, im Hintergrund das Braunkohle-Kraftwerk Jänschwalde (Foto vom 20.10.2019).
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Post-coal conflicts
A »deep drilling operation« in the lignite district of Lusatia
Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner erforscht und lehrt Mikroökonomik an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena und ist Vizepräsident für wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs und Gleichstellung.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
The state needs to play a more active role!
Economists are calling for more state control of the economy.
Prof. Dr. Silke van Dyk (r.) und Tine Haubner (l.) , Soziologinnen auf dem Campus der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
(In)voluntary support of the welfare state
How charity work is becoming a state-sponsored black market.
This rural idyll is missing a touch of life.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
The demographic trap
Why people in East Germany feel disadvantaged.
Prof. Dr Norbert Frei teaches modern and contemporary history at the University of Jena.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Testing ground for the "Riders to the East"
Historian Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei analyses the success of the AfD.
Forest cover of the Hainich National Park near Kammerforst. Heavily damaged tree tops in grey.
Image: Sören Hese
Beeches in need
Effects of climate change on Germany's largest deciduous forest.

Further topics

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Ocean. Life threatening manoeuvres under its surface - at least for diatoms.
Hostile takeover in the ocean
A team of researchers from Jena and Frankfurt/Main resolves how egg fungis attack algaes.​
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Life in a mining desert
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Reportage
Life in a mining desert
Magdalena Steinhöfel as an »Engel am Zug« at Erfurt Central Station.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Portrait
Magdalena on track
Thousands of citizens protest in Jena, undated photo from 1990.
Image: Peter Scheere
Calendar
Jena remained quiet for a while

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