"How can we build local communities that are prosperous, inclusive and sustainable? Joe Guinan and Martin O'Neill argue that traditional economic strategies typically waste billions. In this book, they argue how this Community Wealth Building can transform our economies from the bottom up by...

"This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organisations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core. Extending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development -- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape -- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices -- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices -- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices -- Chapter 6: Conclusions:...

This paper examines how the introduction of the Fiscal Decentralization (FD) at the turn of the Century that offered greater freedom in local governance affected grassroots politics and local development in Indonesia. We find that socio-culturally homogenous communities are more likely to...