The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift Cambridge

摘要

Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen, professors in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, have contributed in their earlier work on general issues of ecological sustainability, the need for sufficiency, simplification of life and an overall reduction of consumption. As editors of the recently published The Localization Reader (2012) they have concentrated on the concept of localisation as a process of social learning and flexible cultural change. In their view, in the coming decades there will be a definite shortage of fossil fuels and raw materials, resulting in highly negative consequences such as endangered food systems, massive environmental disruptions and uncontrollable climate change.