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Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change

Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anthony Flaccavento, Bill McKibben (Foreword by)Series:Culture of the LandPublish date:2016-06-10Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813167596ISBN-10:813167590UPC:9780813167596Book Category:Business & Economics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Development, Public PolicyBook Topic:Sustainable Development, Economic Development, Environmental PolicySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCMG65NFVG
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives-and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the total economy and are largely ignored by policy m
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813167596ISBN-10:813167590UPC:9780813167596Book Category:Business & Economics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Development, Public PolicyBook Topic:Sustainable Development, Economic Development, Environmental PolicySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCMG65NFVG

Anthony Flaccavento is the author of Healthy Food Systems: A Toolkit for Building Value Chains. He has published articles on sustainability and rural development in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and Solutions Journal. In 1995, he founded Appalachian Sustainable Development and now serves as the president of SCALE, Inc., a private consulting business that supports ecologically healthy economies. He is also an experienced organic farmer.


Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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