Localized Responses to Unsustainable Growth

摘要

De Young, Raymond, and Thomas Princen, eds. 2012. The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Scruton, Roger, 2012. How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism. Oxford University Press. Rask, Mikko, Richard Worthington, and Minna Lammi, eds. 2012. Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance. Earthscan. As another IPCC report about the causes and effects of climate change is under consideration by decision-makers everywhere, many question the scale of action best able to bolster resilience in the face of environmental crises and the always contested tragedy of the commons. How can individuals and societies live well under the constraints of a finite environment? This question points to the entanglement between local and global dynamics, endogenous and exogenous factors, and the intensification of multi-scale experiments in how to interpret and implement the slogan "think globally, act locally."