Claudio Cattaneo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Cattaneo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | Cattaneo |
| SIGNATURE | CATTANEO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7049-9298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Energy, surplus and the economic process
This paper analyses the economic process through the concept of surplus, combining insights from ecological economics, Marxist political economy and anthropology. Humans, we argue, appropriate surplus energy with their labor from nature and apply it to transform matter into goods and services, with entropy increasing along the way. How societies distribute and expend their surpluses gives them some of their signature features. In hierarchical soc…
Ecological economics into action: Lessons from the Barcelona City doughnut
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: Just, desirable and practical options
Following Illich’s (1974) notion of convivial tools and the distinction he makes between “self-propelled transit” and “motorized transport” of mobility, we apply the emerging paradigm of degrowth to urban mobility. Based on the degrowth literature and Illich’s work, we derive principles and criteria for the mobility of a degrowth society that include institutional, energy and material use, infrastructure, local environmental impacts, social impac…
Understanding the (non-)Use of Societal Wellbeing Indicators in National Policy Development: What Can We Learn from Civil Servants? A UK Case Study
Gross Domestic Product is often used as a proxy for societal well-being in the context of policy development. Its shortcomings in this context are, however, well documented, and numerous alternative indicator sets have been developed. Despite this, there is limited evidence of widespread use of these alternative indicator sets by people working in policy areas relevant to societal wellbeing. Civil servants are an important group of indicator end-…
A Degrowth Transition: Pathways for the Degrowth Niche to Replace the Capitalist-Growth Regime
Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm
Degrowth has evolved within a decade from an activist movement into a multi-disciplinary academic paradigm. However, an overview taking stock of the peer-refereed degrowth literature is yet missing. Here, we review 91 articles that were published between 2006 and 2015. We find that the academic degrowth discourse occupies a small but expanding niche at the intersection of social and applied environmental sciences. The discourse is shaped by autho…
The urban political ecology of ecosystem services: The case of Barcelona
The Squatters' Movement in Europe: Commons and Autonomy as Alternatives to Capitalism
Civil and Uncivil Actors for a Degrowth Society
Within the context of the ecological crisis and technocratic drift of western nations whose overarching goal is economic growth, a plea for degrowth is emerging. In this essay, the concept of degrowth is adopted as an interpretative frame to describe a variety of forms of grassroots activism, mainly across crisis-ridden Europe. Particular attention is devoted to the distinction between forms of alternative activism that respect conventional socie…
Degrowth futures and democracy
The experience of rurban squats in Collserola, Barcelona: What kind of degrowth?
Investigating neorurals and squatters? lifestyles: Personal and Epistemological Insights on Participant Observation and on the Logic of Ethnographic Investigation
In my PhD thesis in Environmental Science, I used fieldwork amongst "neorural" communities in the Iberian Pyrenees, and direct participation amongst "okupas" (squatters) in Barcelona, I reflect on the two methodologies (ethnographic investigation and participant observation) that I used, and I discuss their application with respect to the style and to the particular context of the investigation. The experience of living within the Barcelona squat…
Steps towards autonomy: Autonomy of your thinking, autonomy from the money and autonomy from the system
Degrowth futures and democracy
Civil and Uncivil Actors for a Degrowth Society
Within the context of the ecological crisis and technocratic drift of western nations whose overarching goal is economic growth, a plea for degrowth is emerging. In this essay, the concept of degrowth is adopted as an interpretative frame to describe a variety of forms of grassroots activism, mainly across crisis-ridden Europe. Particular attention is devoted to the distinction between forms of alternative activism that respect conventional socie…
Understanding the (non-)Use of Societal Wellbeing Indicators in National Policy Development: What Can We Learn from Civil Servants? A UK Case Study
Gross Domestic Product is often used as a proxy for societal well-being in the context of policy development. Its shortcomings in this context are, however, well documented, and numerous alternative indicator sets have been developed. Despite this, there is limited evidence of widespread use of these alternative indicator sets by people working in policy areas relevant to societal wellbeing. Civil servants are an important group of indicator end-…
Investigating neorurals and squatters? lifestyles: Personal and Epistemological Insights on Participant Observation and on the Logic of Ethnographic Investigation
In my PhD thesis in Environmental Science, I used fieldwork amongst "neorural" communities in the Iberian Pyrenees, and direct participation amongst "okupas" (squatters) in Barcelona, I reflect on the two methodologies (ethnographic investigation and participant observation) that I used, and I discuss their application with respect to the style and to the particular context of the investigation. The experience of living within the Barcelona squat…
Steps towards autonomy: Autonomy of your thinking, autonomy from the money and autonomy from the system
Investigating neorurals and squatters? lifestyles: Personal and Epistemological Insights on Participant Observation and on the Logic of Ethnographic Investigation
In my PhD thesis in Environmental Science, I used fieldwork amongst "neorural" communities in the Iberian Pyrenees, and direct participation amongst "okupas" (squatters) in Barcelona, I reflect on the two methodologies (ethnographic investigation and participant observation) that I used, and I discuss their application with respect to the style and to the particular context of the investigation. The experience of living within the Barcelona squat…
The experience of rurban squats in Collserola, Barcelona: What kind of degrowth?
Degrowth futures and democracy
Civil and Uncivil Actors for a Degrowth Society
Within the context of the ecological crisis and technocratic drift of western nations whose overarching goal is economic growth, a plea for degrowth is emerging. In this essay, the concept of degrowth is adopted as an interpretative frame to describe a variety of forms of grassroots activism, mainly across crisis-ridden Europe. Particular attention is devoted to the distinction between forms of alternative activism that respect conventional socie…
The Squatters' Movement in Europe: Commons and Autonomy as Alternatives to Capitalism
The urban political ecology of ecosystem services: The case of Barcelona
Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm
Degrowth has evolved within a decade from an activist movement into a multi-disciplinary academic paradigm. However, an overview taking stock of the peer-refereed degrowth literature is yet missing. Here, we review 91 articles that were published between 2006 and 2015. We find that the academic degrowth discourse occupies a small but expanding niche at the intersection of social and applied environmental sciences. The discourse is shaped by autho…
A Degrowth Transition: Pathways for the Degrowth Niche to Replace the Capitalist-Growth Regime
Understanding the (non-)Use of Societal Wellbeing Indicators in National Policy Development: What Can We Learn from Civil Servants? A UK Case Study
Gross Domestic Product is often used as a proxy for societal well-being in the context of policy development. Its shortcomings in this context are, however, well documented, and numerous alternative indicator sets have been developed. Despite this, there is limited evidence of widespread use of these alternative indicator sets by people working in policy areas relevant to societal wellbeing. Civil servants are an important group of indicator end-…
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: Just, desirable and practical options
Following Illich’s (1974) notion of convivial tools and the distinction he makes between “self-propelled transit” and “motorized transport” of mobility, we apply the emerging paradigm of degrowth to urban mobility. Based on the degrowth literature and Illich’s work, we derive principles and criteria for the mobility of a degrowth society that include institutional, energy and material use, infrastructure, local environmental impacts, social impac…
Ecological economics into action: Lessons from the Barcelona City doughnut
Energy, surplus and the economic process
This paper analyses the economic process through the concept of surplus, combining insights from ecological economics, Marxist political economy and anthropology. Humans, we argue, appropriate surplus energy with their labor from nature and apply it to transform matter into goods and services, with entropy increasing along the way. How societies distribute and expend their surpluses gives them some of their signature features. In hierarchical soc…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sustainability (7 works) · Degrowth (6 works) · Global Energy and Sustainability Research (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Biology (4 works)