Alternative Economies and Spaces New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy

• Övriga skapare: Zademach, Hans-Martin (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare), Hillebrand, Sebastian (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2013
• Serie: Global Studies
• Ämnen: Human geography; Economics; Human Geography; Alternative Economies; Alternative Economic Spaces; Transition; Space; Economy; Globalization; Social Geography; Cultural Geography; Sustainability; Geography; Capitalism; Chiemgauer; Credit union; Currency; Ethics; Fair trade; Oxfam; Worldshop
• Länkar: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Sammanfattning

The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises - deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives.

ISBN

transcript.9783839424988
9783839424988

Tillgång

Open Access