Alternative economies and spaces : new perspectives for a sustainable economy / / edited by Hans-Martin Zademach, Sebastian Hillebrand

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910213856403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2013]; ©2013
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Collana: Global Studies
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetti: Economic geography; Space in economics; Regional economics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers from the study program 'Space - Society - Economy' at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt held during the winter term 2011/2012.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 CONTENT 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES AND SPACES: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 9 INTERROGATING ALTERNATIVE LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECONOMIES: THE BRITISH CREDIT UNION MOVEMENT AND POST-BINARY THINKING 23 THE ALTERNATIVE ECONOMY AT THE REGIONAL SCALE? LESSONS FROM THE CHIEMGAU 43 THE POSSIBILITIES OF ECONOMIC DIFFERENCE? SOCIAL RELATIONS OF VALUE, SPACE AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES 69 PLACING THE PRACTICES OF ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES: ALTERNATIVE RETAIL, THE SPACES OF INTENTION AND ETHICAL AMBIGUITIES 85 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE, SOCIAL INNOVATION AND ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES: INSIGHTS FROM FAIR TRADE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 113 REFERENCES 131 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 155
• Sommario/riassunto: The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises - deliver ; valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives.; »This book is a welcome addition to the alternative economics literature, and would be helpful for students, academics and practitioners. The book clearly illustrates the complexity and various ethical negotiations facing those of us interested in alternative socio-economic practices.« Gradon Diprose, International Journal of Community Currency Research, 18 (2014) »Das Buch zeichnet sich durch eine für Sammelbände ungewöhnliche Kohärenz aus. Es ergänzt Standardwerke aus dem angelsächsischen und französischsprachigen Raum [...] durch seine differenzierten konzeptionellen Perspektiven und sektoralen Beispiele. Es eignet sich daher als hervorragende Einstiegslektüre in ein Themenfeld, das in der Geographie in den nächsten Jahren weiter an Dynamik gewinnen dürfte.« Christian Schulz, Geographische Zeitschrift, 103/2 (2015) »Insgesamt machen die Beiträge [...] zwei strukturelle Merkmale der Debatte über real mögliche Nachhaltigkeit deutlich: Annäherungen bedürfen in diesem Feld immer einer pluridisziplinären Perspektive - von der Geografie über die Politik bis zu den Ingenieurwissenschaften - und benötigen eine grundlegende Debatte darüber, was das gute Leben im 21. Jahrhundert, noch dazu in einem globalen Maßstab, eigentlich sein soll.« Matthias Lemke, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 24.04.2014 Besprochen in: http://www.ku.de (2014)

Climate variability and change in the 21th Century

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557547603321
• Autore: Stefanidis Stefanos
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (384 p.)
• Soggetti: Research & information: general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: - Water resources management should be assessed under climate change conditions, as historic data cannot replicate future climatic conditions. - Climate change impacts on water resources are bound to affect all water uses, i.e., irrigated agriculture, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, and environmental flow (of streams and rivers) and water level (of lakes). - Bottom-up approaches, i.e., the forcing of hydrologic simulation models with climate change models’ outputs, are the most common engineering practices and considered as climate-resilient water management approaches. - Hydrologic simulations forced by climate change scenarios derived from regional climate models (RCMs) can provide accurate assessments of the future water regime at basin scales. - Irrigated agriculture requires special attention as it is the principal water consumer and alterations of both precipitation and temperature patterns will directly affect agriculture yields and incomes. - Integrated water resources management (IWRM) requires multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, with climate change to be an emerging cornerstone in the IWRM concept.