The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy

TIME FOR A SEE CHANGE
SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC STRATEGIES FOR LIFE AFTER GROWTH

A new kind of world is possible — this book makes that clear. The question is whether we're willing to do the work to get there. — Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy

Resilience is the watchword for our dawning era of economic and environmental instability. This timely book offers a wide range of practical suggestions and inspiring examples to help us build more resilient communities. — Richard Heinberg, author, The End of Growth , Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute

Navigating transition from growth to resilience is a formidable challenge, but together we can reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a decentralized, cooperative, steady-state economy.

The authors explore a comprehensive series of strategic questions, community initiatives and transition factors within the areas of:

Community land trusts for affordable housing and workspace
Low-carbon urban partnerships and energy sufficiency
Stewarding the commons and local food systems
Fair Trade banking and fee-based finance
Economic democracy and Trusteeship companies

This provocative book challenges many of our deeply embedded cultural assumptions. Profoundly hopeful and inspiring, The Resilience Imperative affirms the limitless scope for positive change created when individuals, communities and institutions learn to live within our ecological limits.

This is a book that puts flesh on the occupy movement’s call for an economic alternative ... at once visionary and practical. — Robin Murray, Senior Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and author of Co-operation in the Age of Google

Michael Lewis is the Executive Director of the Canadian Center for Community Renewal.

Pat Conaty is a Fellow of new economics foundation and a research associate of C'Co-operatives UK.