The localization reader : adapting to the coming downshift / edited by Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Young, Raymond, 1952-

Princen, Thomas, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable living.

Environmentalism.

Energy conservation.

Energy consumption.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

026251687X

9780262016834

0262016834

9780262516877

OCLC:

733045195

Publisher Number:

99947547803