1st Edition
The Bioregional Economy Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
By Molly Scott Cato
Copyright 2013
272 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
264 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources? Green economists suggest a need to replace the globalised economy, and its extended supply chains, with a more ‘local’ economy. But what does this mean in more concrete terms? How large is a local economy, how self-reliant can it be, and what resources will still need to be imported? The... Read more
1.Why Bioregional Economics? Part One: Making Sense of the Bioregion 2. What is a bioregion? 3. The Economist as Shaman 4. A Culture of Wildness Part Two: Bioregional Resourcing 5. Visioning the Bioregional Economy 6. Provisioning and Provenance 7. Work as Craft 8. What About my iPod? 9. Conviviality and Community Part Three: Policies for a Bioregional Economy 10. Challenging Trade; Protecting the Earth 11. A System of Enhanced Self-reliant Local Economies 12. Sharing the Common Wealth of the Bioregion 13. Living the Full Circle of Life
Biography
Molly Scott Cato is Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author of Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice (Earthscan, 2008) and she has written widely on themes concerned with mutualism, social enterprise, policy responses to climate change, banking and finance, and local economies. She is a Director of Transition Stroud and of Stroud Common Wealth.
"My personal knowledge of the author and her previous work suggests that ... it will represent an important contribution to the promotion of a more decentralised national and global economy focusing on the wellbeing of people and the planet." – James Robertson
