The localization reader : adapting to the coming downshift / edited by Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.Description: xxvi, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780262516877 (pbk.)
- 026251687X (pbk.)
- 333.72 DEY
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Readings that point the way to a peaceful, democratic, and ecologically resilient transition to an era of localization, limits, and societal opportunities.
Energy supplies are tightening. Persistent pollutants are accumulating. Food security is declining. There is no going back to the days of reckless consumption, but there is a possibility-already being realized in communities across North America and around the world-of localizing, of living well as we learn to live well within immutable constraints. This book maps the transition to a more localized world.
Society is shifting from the centrifugal forces of globalization (cheap and abundant raw materials and energy, intensive commercialization, concentrated economic and political power) to the centripetal forces of localization- distributed authority and leadership, sustainable use of nearby natural resources, community self-reliance and cohesion (with crucial regional, national, and international dimensions).
This collection, offering classic texts by such writers as Wendell Berry, M. King Hubbert, and Ernst F. Schumacher, as well as new work by authors including Karen Litfin and David Hess, shows how localization-a process of affirmative social change-can enable psychologically meaningful and fulfilling lives while promoting ecological and social sustainability. Topics range from energy dynamics to philosophies of limits, from the governance of place-based communities to the discovery of positive personal engagement. Together they point the way to a transition that can be peaceful, democratic, just, and environmentally resilient.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fossil fuel decline / M. King Hubbert -- Energy returned on energy invested / Adam Dadeby -- The inevitability of transition / Joseph A. Tainter -- Less energy, more equity, more time / Ivan Illich -- An arc of scenarios / Rob Hopkins -- Inhabiting place / Robert L. Thayer -- Locally owned business / Michael Shuman -- Daring to experiment / Warren Johnson -- Civic agriculture / Thomas A. Lyson -- A whole new way of life / Karen Litfin -- The decentralist tradition / Kirkpatrick Sale -- Technology at a human scale / Ernst F. Schumacher -- Provincialism / Josiah Royce -- Local enterprise / Wendell Berry -- Conserving communities / Wendell Berry -- Abundance and fulfillment / Sharon Astyk -- Motives for living lightly / Raymond De Young -- Enabling the best in people / Rachel Kaplan & Stephen Kaplan -- Ecological democracy / John S. Dryzek -- Towards the regional / Gar Alperovitz -- Global problems, localist solutions / David J. Hess -- Adaptive muddling / Raymond De Young & Stephen Kaplan -- Promoting a partnership society / Lester W. Milbrath -- Tools for the transition / Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers & Dennis Meadows -- Downshift/upshift : our choice / Raymond De Young & Thomas Princen.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Raymond De Young is a Professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.Thomas Princen explores ecological and economic sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Treading Softly- Paths to Ecological Order and The Logic of Sufficiency (both published by the MIT Press).
Thomas A. Lyson was Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University until his death in 2006. He was the author of Civic Agriculture- Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community.
Raymond De Young is a Professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.
David J. Hess is Professor in the Sociology Department, James Thornton Fant Chair in Sustainability Studies, and Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry, Localist Movements in a Global Economy , and Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy , all published by the MIT Press.
Raymond De Young is a Professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.
Raymond De Young is a Professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.
Thomas Princen explores ecological and economic sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Treading Softly- Paths to Ecological Order and The Logic of Sufficiency (both published by the MIT Press).