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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Terminology -- The Road Towards DemocraCity -- The Comparative Analysis with Two Hemispheres: Australia and Italy -- The Future Is Now -- From the "Sense of Community" to the "Civitas Maxima" -- References -- 2 The Rise of a Virtuous Consciousness -- The Beginning of a New Discipline -- Cowboys and Astronauts -- The 1970s, the Idea of "Growthmania" and the Club of Rome -- Development and Its Side Effects -- The Path of the Ecological Economy -- The Real Utopia and the Bioeconomics |
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Our Common Future: The Political Commitment to Safeguarding the Environment -- Ecological Rationalization: The Urgency to Change Direction -- The "Happy" Degrowth -- The Convenient Lie -- The Circle of the 8Rs -- References -- 3 Providing a Concrete Alternative: The Transition Towards the Post-development -- Farewell Global Warming, Welcome to Climate Change! -- The Bet on the Degrowth -- The Diabolic Carousel: The Vicious Circle of Growth -- Modern Heroes -- The Re-establishment of Politics -- The GDP of Happiness |
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Providing a Concrete Alternative: The Transition Towards the Post-development -- A New Humanism -- Beyond the Currency -- An Historical Background of the Transition Town Movement -- References -- 4 The Application of Resilience for Human Community: From Theory to Practise -- Resilience and Degrowth: Two Sides of the Same Coin -- The Detoxification of the Imaginary -- Ready and Resilient: Resilience, Degrowth, and a New Concept of Sustainability -- Other Ways and Other Worlds -- A Different Globalization -- Another Global Space -- Permaculture: The Basis of a Resilient Community |
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The Importance of Communities in a Resilient Society -- Spirit -- Trust -- Trade -- Arts -- What Is the Transition? Utopia is Real -- References -- 5 Ethics, Degrowth, and Resilience: The Complexity of the Transition Path Towards DemocraCity -- The Construction of a New Imaginary -- The Gift: An Introduction -- The Gift of Active Citizenship: Between Politics and Responsibility -- Ethics Within DemocraCity: The Lesson of Edgar Morin -- From One Crisis to Another: Recurring Cycles in the History of Civilization -- Long Term Unpredictability: From Pascal's Lesson to a Desirable Strategy |
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Teaching and the Value of Understanding -- Ethics for Future Generations -- A Laboratory of Ideas for Democracy -- From Morin to Illich: School Renovation Within DemocraCity -- References -- 6 Sic Parvis Magna: From Humble Beginnings -- The New Alliances -- The "Virtuous" Example of Transition Darebin -- Cooperation, Resilience, and Local Trade Within Transition Darebin -- The Modus Operandi -- The Example of Fiorivano le viole -- Leaving Competitiveness -- A Modern Myth -- Rethinking Degrowth: Disappointment or Need? -- Whose Future Is It? |
| Summary |
This book discusses the challenges faced by the homo resaliens and his need for a transition to a more sustainable social, economic, and environmental system. It fills a gap in the existing literature and provides a new perspective by changing the etymology of the word resilience: no more resiliere, but resalio. By comparing and analysing the relevant literature, the author has coined the term homo resaliens (resilient man), in contrast to the failure of the homo oeconomicus, the corruption of the homo politicus, the incompleteness of homo sustinens, and the limits of homo ecologicus. Opening a new debate in which the role of academia and res publica are fundamental to safeguard human communities and future generations, this book will greatly assist governments that wish to understand the socio-political and economic implication of resilience in terms of social inclusiveness and long term social and environmental sustainability. Marco Carcea has a PhD in Human Society from the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He is currently Head of strategic planning in Mayors Cabinet at Comune di Crotone, Italy. Previously, he worked as Research Associate in the School of Education and Social Sciences of Swinburne University of Technology and as a Lecturer at the school of Global, Urban and Social Studies of RMIT University, Melbourne. His areas of research interests include Ecological Economics, the application of resilience for human communities, sustainable development, alternative currencies and inclusive democracy |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2021) |
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Sustainable development -- Social aspects
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Sustainability.
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Human ecology.
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human ecology.
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Human ecology
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Sustainability
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Sustainable development -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811635052 |
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9811635056 |
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