Some of the questions discussed at the conference were the following:

Could economic growth and consumption of resources be separated?
Does economic growth of the industrialised countries still contribute to an increase of our quality of live?
Can growth be un-economically?
Which roles can play new models of affluence?
What are the possibilities and the framework for a policy "beyond growth"?

In co-operation with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung SERI is working at a publication of the contributions to the conference. The papers will be published as a special edition of the journal "Politische Ökologie".

Our project "Beyond growth" ended with the publication of "Jenseits des Wachstums", issue 66 of Politische Ökologie, edited by the Heinrich-Boell Foundation in co-operation with Fritz Hinterberger and Fred Luks. Contributors include Herman E. Daly, Eric Neumeyer, Gerhard Scherhorn, Gerhard Meyer-Rigaud, Klaus T�pfer, Elmar Altvater, Hans-Werner Bellin and Thilo Bode.

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