{"product_id":"9780865717077","title":"The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTIME FOR A SEE CHANGE\u003cbr\u003eSOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC STRATEGIES FOR LIFE AFTER GROWTH\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eA 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.\u003c\/i\u003e — Bill McKibben, author \u003ci\u003eDeep Economy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eResilience 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.\u003c\/i\u003e — Richard Heinberg, author, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Growth\u003c\/i\u003e , Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNavigating 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors explore a comprehensive series of strategic questions, community initiatives and transition factors within the areas of:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunity land trusts for affordable housing and workspace\u003cbr\u003eLow-carbon urban partnerships and energy sufficiency\u003cbr\u003eStewarding the commons and local food systems\u003cbr\u003eFair Trade banking and fee-based finance\u003cbr\u003eEconomic democracy and Trusteeship companies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThis is a book that puts flesh on the occupy movement’s call for an economic alternative ... at once visionary and practical.\u003c\/i\u003e — Robin Murray, Senior Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and author of \u003ci\u003eCo-operation in the Age of Google\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Lewis is the Executive Director of the Canadian Center for Community Renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePat Conaty is a Fellow of new economics foundation and a research associate of C'Co-operatives UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Society Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022293319920,"sku":"9780865717077","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865717077_p0.jpg?v=1763838102","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865717077","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}