Surviving collapse : building community toward radical sustainability / Christina Ergas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ergas, Christina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development.

Sustainable development.

Climate change mitigation.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

As environmental crises loom, Surviving Collapse makes an argument for radical changes in the ways in which people live to avoid a dystopian future. To foster readers' imagination, Christina Ergas reveals real utopian stories that counter climate apocalypse narratives. Two eco-communities offer examples of alternative futures with small environmental footprints and more egalitarian social practices. They model solutions to the interconnected problems of rising social inequalities and environmental degradation. Each case engages in community-oriented practices, direct democracy, and ecological agricultural forms that attend to whole ecosystems. These practitioners recognize the value of whole biotic communities, human and nonhuman, and practice reciprocity.

Contents:

Introduction: Building Socioecological Community

In the Shadow of Sustainable Development

Grassroots Sustainability in a Concrete Landscape: An Urban Ecovillage in the Pacific Northwest

Urban Oasis: Socioecological Sustainability in Cuban Urban Agriculture

Beyond Neoliberalism: The Promise of a Communitarian Story

Scaling Up the Values Themselves: Real Utopian Stories for the Climate Apocalypse

Conclusion: There is No Future That is Not Built in the Present.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-754413-4

0-19-754412-6

OCLC:

1261366621