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Building Sustainable Communities: Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Change


Shann Turnbull


International Institute for Self-Governance; Sustainable Money Working Group

C. George Benello


ICA group (Boston)- deceased

Robert Swann


E.F. Schumancher Society (US) - deceased

C. George Benello, Robert Swann, Shann Turnbull, BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: TOOLS AND CONCEPTS FOR SELF-RELEANT CHANGE, Ward Morehouse, ed., Bootstrap Press, May 5, 2008

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A revised edition of a classic work long out of print, this book is based on the Schumacher Society Seminars on Community Economic Transformation. It presents the underlying ideas and essential institutions for building sustainable communities. The three Major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources; worker-managed enterprises, and other techniques of community self-management; and community currency and banking. Included also are a lexicon of social capitalism and a bibliography of key words on self-reliant economic change.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 118

Keywords: Community currencies; Cooperatives; Land banking; Land trusts; Regional economics; Social capitalism; Sustainable development; Worker participation

JEL Classification: G29; L31; P49; R11; R52

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Date posted: May 5, 2008 ; Last revised: February 19, 2012

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Turnbull, Shann, Benello, C. George and Swann, Robert , Building Sustainable Communities: Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Change. C. George Benello, Robert Swann, Shann Turnbull, BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: TOOLS AND CONCEPTS FOR SELF-RELEANT CHANGE, Ward Morehouse, ed., Bootstrap Press, May 5, 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1128862

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Shann Turnbull (Contact Author)
International Institute for Self-Governance ( email )
PO Box 266 Woollahra
Cell: 61418222378
Sydney, New South Wales 1350
Australia
+612 8065 5905 (Phone)
HOME PAGE: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~sturnbull/
SKYPE: shann.turnbull
Sustainable Money Working Group ( email )
Holyoake House,
Hanover Street
Manchester, M60 0AS
United Kingdom
C. George Benello
ICA group (Boston)- deceased
Boston, MA
United States
Robert Swann
E.F. Schumancher Society (US) - deceased
Great Barrington, MA
United States
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