Fleeing Vesuvius : overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse / edited by Richard George Douthwaite and Gillian Fallon; foreword by Richard Heinberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Douthwaite, R. J.

Fallon, Gillian.

Heinberg, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics.

Sustainable development.

Finance.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Feasta, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Weaves together the threads of peak oil, resource depletion, economic instability, and climate change and offers solutions, including: concrete strategies for personal adaptation; workable models of self-reliant local communities; and, frameworks to support international action on financial and economic reform.

Contents:

Part VII : Ideas for action

Escape routes : fleeing Vesuvius- which way should we go? / Caroline Whyte

Should the United States try to avoid a financial meltdown?

Epilogure : fleeing Vesuvius.

Part III : New ways of using the land

Cutting transport costs and emissions through local integration / Emer O'Siochru

The nutritional resilience approach to food security / Bruce Darrell

The the land land from an emissions source to a carbon sink / Corinna Byrne

Part IV : Dealing with climate change

Future global climate institutions / Alex Evans

Cap and share : simple is beautiful / Laurence Matthews

Influencing high-level strategic decision making toward a sustainable low-carbon economy / Julian Darley

Part V : Changing the way we live

Danger ahead : prioritizing risk avoidance in political and economic decision-making / Brian Davey

Tranistion thinking : the goood life 2.0 / Davie Philip

Sailing craft for a post-collapse world / Dmitry Orlov

Part VI : Changing the way we think

The psychological roots of resource overconsumption / Nate Hagens

Busy doing nothing : seven reasons for humanity's inertia in the face of critical threats and how we might remove them / Mark Rutledge and Brian Davey

Cultivating hope and managing despair / John Sharry

Collapse or no cllapse : we need to respect to survive / Lucy McAndrew

Enough : a worldview for positive futures / Anne Ryan

Part II : Innovation in business, money and finance

The supply of money in the energy-scarce world / Richard Douthwaite

Liquidity networks : local trading systems using a debt-free electronic currency system / Graham Barnes

Equity partnerships : a better, fairer approach to developing land / Chris Cook

Using equity partnerships to rescue building projects hit by the downturn / James Pike

Trying to form an equity partnership to buy a Welsh farm / Tim Helweg-Larsen

The Mondragon Bank : and old model for a new type of finance / Oscar Kjellberg

Rethinking business structures : how to encourage sustainability through conscious design choice / Patrick Andrews

Why Pissburg real estate never crashes : the progressive reform that stabilized an economy / Dan Sullivan

Definancialization, deglobalization and relocalization / Dmitry Orlov

Part I : Energy availability

On the cusp of collapse : complexity, energy and the globalized economy / David Korowicz

Future energy availability : the importance of "net energy" / Chris Vernon

Calculating EIRR, the energy internal rate of return / Tom Konrad

Energy and water : the real blue chips / Nate Hagens and Kenneth Mulder

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613095114

9781283095112

1283095114

9781550924763

1550924761

OCLC:

714569611