The Bioregional Economy
Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
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 concept of the 'bioregion' - developed and popularised within the disciplines of earth sciences, biosciences and planning - may facilitate the reconceptualisation of the global economy as a system of largely self-sufficient local economies.A bioregiona…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-136-18174-0
- EAN: 9781136181740
- Produktnummer: 14498734
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 53'094 KB
- Abbildungen: 24 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 9 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 15 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 11 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
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.
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