Title Building sustainable communities : tools and concepts for self-reliant economic change / contributors, C. George Benello, Robert Swann, Shann Turnbull ; edited by Ward Morehouse.

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New York : Bootstrap Press, 1997.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	338.9 B465B	Check Shelf

Edition	2nd, rev. ed.
Description	xiii, 218 pages ; 23 cm.
Series	TOES book
	TOES books.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218).
Contents	Pt.1 Introduction. The world crisis and community economic revitalization -- Root causes of the world's economic breakdown.
	Pt.2 Community stewardship of land and natural resources. Alternatives to ownership: land trusts as land reform -- The community impact of land trusts -- Different types of land trusts -- Comparison of community land trusts and land conservation trusts -- Land conservation trusts -- Community land trusts -- Forest land trusts -- The cooperative land bank concept -- Comparison of community land trusts and cooperative land banks -- World resources trusteeship.
	Pt.3 Community self-management. Social capitalism as the road to community self-management -- Economic behavior and self-management: some governing principles -- Workplace Democratization -- Worker-managed enterprised: legal shells, structures, and financing -- Other methods of enhancing community self-management -- The lexicon of social capitalism.
	Pt.4 Community currency and banking. What everyone should know about banking and money (especially bankers and economists) -- Elements of autonomous banking -- Creating a community currency -- Building a community banking system -- Community financing and resource optimization.
	Pt.5 Afterword. Community economic vitalization: a decade and a half of building from the ground up.
Subject	Regional economics.
	Cooperative societies.
	Sustainable development.
	Land trusts.
	Management -- Employee participation.
	Banks and banking, Cooperative.
	Community development.
	Banks and banking, Cooperative. (OCoLC)fst00827061
	Community development. (OCoLC)fst00870818
	Cooperative societies. (OCoLC)fst00878181
	Land trusts. (OCoLC)fst00991465
	Management -- Employee participation. (OCoLC)fst01007168
	Regional economics. (OCoLC)fst01093090
	Sustainable development. (OCoLC)fst01139731
Added Author	Swann, Robert S.
	Turnbull, Shann, 1934-
	Morehouse, Ward, 1929-
ISBN	094285036X (paper ; alk. paper)
	9780942850369 (paper ; alk. paper)
	0942850378 (hard ; alk. paper)
	9780942850376 (hard ; alk. paper)

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