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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Transition town"”.
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Localisation and Resilience at the local level: the case of Transition Town Totnes
This thesis provides a critical review of the Transition movement, a grassroots response to peak oil and climate change, co-founded by this author. It focuses on two key aspects of the Transition approach, resilience and economic relocalisation, with the aim of analysing whether and how they can be …
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The silent community? : From practicing (a)-political volition to re-politicising difference
The search for new approaches to low-carbon transition have led to an array of different movements over the past 10-15 years, most notable has been the Transition movement which has grown from humble beginnings in Totnes (Devon) to become a global movement. But while Transition is now a global …
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Exploring Power in the Theory and Practice of Resilience
… the powerplane to the grassroots case of Transition Town Peterborough, Canada, shows that intimate knowledge of local social and political institutions can allow a grassroots organisation to introduce resilience ideas into social and political community life. Together the two case studies …