The localization reader
Subtitle: adapting to the coming downshift
By: edited by Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262016834; 9780262516877
Subjects: Energy conservation; Environmentalism; Energy consumption; Sustainable living
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fossil fuel decline / M. King Hubbert; title: Energy returned on energy invested / Adam Dadeby; title: The inevitability of transition / Joseph A. Tainter; title: Less energy, more equity, more time / Ivan Illich; title: An arc of scenarios / Rob Hopkins; title: Inhabiting place / Robert L. Thayer; title: Locally owned business / Michael Shuman; title: Daring to experiment / Warren Johnson; title: Civic agriculture / Thomas A. Lyson; title: A whole new way of life / Karen Litfin; title: The decentralist tradition / Kirkpatrick Sale; title: Technology at a human scale / Ernst F. Schumacher; title: Provincialism / Josiah Royce; title: Local enterprise / Wendell Berry; title: Conserving communities / Wendell Berry; title: Abundance and fulfillment / Sharon Astyk; title: Motives for living lightly / Raymond De Young; title: Enabling the best in people / Rachel Kaplan & Stephen Kaplan; title: Ecological democracy / John S. Dryzek; title: Towards the regional / Gar Alperovitz; title: Global problems, localist solutions / David J. Hess; title: Adaptive muddling / Raymond De Young & Stephen Kaplan; title: Promoting a partnership society / Lester W. Milbrath; title: Tools for the transition / Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers & Dennis Meadows; title: Downshift/upshift : our choice / Raymond De Young & Thomas Princen.