"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...

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a...