Localization Bibliography

LOCALIZATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

Raymond De Young Workshop on Transitions

Thomas Princen School of Natural Resources and Environment

University of Michigan

440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041

Table of Contents

PREMISE 1

PRIMARY TEXT 1

USEFUL LINKS 1

INTRODUCTION TO CATEGORIES 2

CONTEXT 2

SYSTEMS 7

INTEGRATION 18

TRANSITION 27

PREMISE

Localization assumes that high-consuming, growth-dependent societies will (a) soon be operating on much less energy and material, (b) need to rapidly transition to a sustainable state, and (c) be less affluent, although function with higher levels of psychological well-being. The energy descent may be more than 80% this century, a shift without precedent. Energy is a key driver that the readings discuss but do not dwell on. For a more detailed premise see: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rdeyoung/premise-precis.html

PRIMARY TEXT

De Young, R. & T. Princen (2012) The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

ISBN-10: 026251687X

ISBN-13: 978-0262516877

All royalties are allocated to two community organizations that exemplify localization. Growing Hope is an organization dedicated to helping people improve their lives and communities through gardening and local food security (www.growinghope.net) and People’s Food Co-op has long sought to feed a community with wholesome food and good work (www.peoplesfood.coop).

USEFUL LINKS

The Localization Papers: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rdeyoung

Definition of localization: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rdeyoung/definition.html

Seminar documents: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rdeyoung/syllabus.html

INTRODUCTION TO CATEGORIES

1. Context – Understanding the challenge presented by peak oil, peak everything, over-consumption, and global climate disruption. Alternate scenarios have been proposed. Durable solutions must be compatible with human behavior, social needs, and ecological constraints. Localization is a robust solution, more than anti-globalization, providing for foundational sustainability. It requires and supports human engagement, supports social needs, and is ecologically viable.

2. Systems – A reasonable solution must provide for basic needs in an ecologically sustainable manner. These include food, water, sewage, roads, energy, housing, health care and the accessibility to these. The focus here primarily is on tangible, material systems provided within a local geographical context.

3. Integration – The focus here is on cross-cutting processes and social structures. These include principles, metaphors, institutions, instruments, and procedures, along with ethics, worldviews and notions of integrative wellness. Finding or creating these are needed to plan for, provide, and maintain the fundamental systems of a localized society.

4. Transition – Human societies were once organized locally, but this is no longer the dominant paradigm. Changing to a different paradigm is possible but requires effective adaptation and strategic management wherever possible. Transition is aided by pre-familiarization techniques—e.g., storytelling, envisioning, conceptualizing, simulating, etc. Once transitioned, stabilization within the new reality benefits from ongoing dialog and perspective.

CONTEXT

Context: History

Berry, W. (2001) Thoughts in the presence of fear. Orion. Retrieved from http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/214 on 30 June 2008.

Berry, W. (2006) The idea of a local economy. The Relocalization Network. Retrieved from http://www.relocalize.net/node/4770 on 30 June 2008.

Bunting, M. (2007) Eat, drink and be miserable: The true cost of our addiction to shopping. The Guardian. December 3, 2007.Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2220838,00.html on 30 June 2008.

Greer, J. M. (2007) Adaptive responses to peak oil. The Archdruid Report. Retrieved from http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/11/adaptive-responses-to-peak-oil.html on 30 June 2008.

Heinberg, R. & D. Lerch (2010) The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press

Heinberg, R. (2007) MuseLetter #186 As the world burns: Powerdown revisited. Retrieved from http://www.richardheinberg.com/museletter/186 on 30 June 2008.

Heinberg, R. (2007) MuseLetter #188 What will we eat as the oil runs out? Retrieved from http://www.richardheinberg.com/museletter/188 on 30 June 2008.

Holmgren, D. (2009) Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.

Hopkin, R. (2011) The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.

Hopkin, R. (2011) The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.

Murphy, P. (2007) The End of Industrialism: Going Home. Planning for Hard Times – Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions. (October 27, 2007), Yellow Springs, OH. Retrieved from http://www.communitysolution.org/ppts/07PatPlanning4HardTimes.ppt on 30 June 2008.

Orr, D. (1992) Chapter 2 – Two meanings of sustainability (Pp. 23-40) Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany. NY: State University of New York Press.

Princen, T. (2002) Chapter 5 – Distancing: Consumption and the severing of feedback (Pp. 103-131) In T. Princen, M. Maniates, and K. Conca [Eds.] Confronting Consumption. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Sale, K. (1985) Chapter 4 – Dwellers in the land (Pp. 41-51). Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.

Sale, K. (1997) The Columbian legacy and the ecosterian response (Pp. 13-21). In H. Hildegarde People, Land and Community. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Context: Scenarios

Hopkins, R. (2006) Section 3.5 – Future scenarios and Section 3.6 – The post peak scenarios model (Pp. 19-23) and Section 4.3 – Relocalisation as a possible response to peak oil (Pp. 26-29). Energy Descent Pathways: Evaluating Potential Responses to Peak Oil. Retrieved from http://transitionculture.org/wp-content/uploads/msc-dissertation-publishable-copy.pdf on 30 June 2008.

Johnson, Warren (1972) Excerpts from Paths out of the corner, A new feudalism: A specific proposal (Pp. 46-47). IDOC North America. 47 (October): 43-48.

Johnson, W. (1985) Chapter 2 – The end of an era, not the end of the world. The Future is Not What is Used to Be: Returning to Traditional Values in an Age of Scarcity. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company.

Korten, D. C. (2006) Chapter 17 – Joys of Earth community (Pp. 281-301) The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.

Kunstler, J. H. (2005) Chapter 1 – Sleepwalking in the future (Pp. 1-21) and Chapter 2 – Modernity and the fossil fuels dilemma (Pp. 22-60). The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Raskin, P. et al. (2002) Preface (Pp. ix-x), Chapter 1 – Where are we? (Pp. 1-12), and Chapter 2 – Where are we headed? (Pp. 13-30). Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of theTimes Ahead. Boston, MA: Stockholm Environment Institute – Boston & Tellus Institute. Retrieved from http://gtinitiative.org/documents/Great_Transitions.pdf on 30 June 2008.

Roseland, M. (1997) Dimensions of the future, An eco-city overview (Pp. 1-12). Eco-city Dimensions: Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet. Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers.

Sale, K. (1980) The decentralist tradition (Pp. 443-454). Human Scale. NY: Perigee.

Shiva, V. (2008) The other carbon economy. Resurgence. 248 (May/June): 12-13.

Thayer, R. (2003) Reinhabiting: Recovering a bioregional culture (Pp. 52-71). Life Place: Bioregional Thought and Practice. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Context: Behavior

De Young, R. (2011) Slow wins: Patience, perseverance and behavior change. Carbon Management, 2, 607-611 (http://www.future-science.com/doi/pdfplus/10.4155/cmt.11.59)

De Young, Raymond & Stephen. Kaplan (1988) On averting the tragedy of the commons. Environmental Management. 12 (3): 273-283. (http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/48163)

Eisler, Riane (1999) Sex, spirituality and evolution: Are we victims to the beast within? [Interview by Mark Harris for Conscious Choice, Feb 1999]. Retrieved from http://www.partnershipway.org/html/subpages/articles/sexspiritevol.htm on 30 June 2008.

Johnson, Warren (2002) The Gift of Peaceful Genes: Cultural Evolution on a Finite Earth. Charleston, SC: The Other Way Press.

Kaplan, Stephen (2000) New ways to promote proenvironmental behavior: Human nature and environmentally responsible behavior. Journal of Social Issues. 56 (3): 491–508.

Levine, Daniel S. (2006) Toward a spirit-friendly science of people. Retrieved from http://www.partnershipway.org/html/subpages/articles/friendlyscience.htm on 30 June 2008.

Max-Neef, Manfred (Undated) Human needs and human-scale development. Retrieved from http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/background/maxneef.htm on 30 June 2008.

Midgley, Mary (1981) Toward a new understanding of human nature: The limits of individualism (Pp. 1-24). How Humans Adapt: A Biocultural Odyssey. Seventh International Smithsonian Symposium. Washington, DC.: Smithsonian Institution.

Context: Barriers and avenues

Banner, Bob (2008) Why relocalization? – A return to the local (Pp. 283-287) & Interviews about peak oil and solutions (Pp. 333-342). In Bob Banner [Ed.] Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope. San Luis Obispo, CA: Hope Dance Magazine.

Berry, Wendell (1996) Conserving communities (Pp. 76-84). In William Vitek & Wes Jackson [Eds.] Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Board on Sustainable Development, Policy Division, National Research Council (1999) Executive summary (Pp. 1-14), Introduction (Pp. 15-20), Chapter 1 – Our common journey (Pp. 21-58), Chapter 2 – Trends and transitions (Pp. 59-132), Chapter 3 – Exploring the future (Pp. 133-184), Chapter 4 – Environmental threats and opportunities (Pp. 185-232), Chapter 5 – Reporting on the transition (Pp. 233-275), and Chapter 6 – Integrating knowledge and action (Pp. 275-332). Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Booth, Douglas E. (2004) Chapter 1 – Hooked on growth: Introduction (Pp. 1-10), Chapter 5 – Everyday economic life and environmental decline (Pp. 55-100), Chapter 6 – Conventional and ecological economics: Adjusting the environment to the economy versus adjusting the economy to the environment (Pp. 141-184), Chapter 7 – Environmental values and getting unhooked from growth (Pp. 185-206) and Chapter 8 – The politics of getting unhooked from growth (Pp. 207-240). Hooked on Growth: Economic Addictions and the Environment. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Brownlee, Michael (2008) Relocalization and the regeneration of community (Pp. 403-407) and A renaissance of local (Pp. 275-278). In Bob Banner [Ed.] Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope. San Luis Obispo, CA: Hope Dance Magazine.

Bruyn, Severyn T. (1987) Chapter 1, Beyond the market and the state (Pp. 3-27). In Severyn T. Bruyn & James Meehan [Eds]. Beyond the Market and the State: New Directions in Community Development. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Gardner, Gary T. (2006) Part One – Progress unraveling (Pp, 13-53) [Includes: Chapter 1 – The power of vision: Worldviews shape progress (Pp. 13-22), Chapter 2 – The paradox of progress in the 20th century(Pp. 23-40) and Chapter 3 – Tools for course correction: religions’ contributions (Pp. 41-53)]. Inspiring Progress: Religions’ Contributions to Sustainable Development. New York, NY: Worldwatch and W.W. Norton Company.

Hines, C. (2000) Part One – The Problem–Globalization (Pp. 3-23), Part Two – The solution–localization: Chapter 4 – From globalization to localization – A potential rallying call (Pp. 27-36), Chapter 5 – Localization – Increasing community renewal (Pp. 37-61), Chapter 6 – ‘Protect the local globally’ – A route to localization (Pp. 62-67), Chapter 7 – Localizing production and dismantling transnational companies (Pp. 68-78), Chapter 8 – Localizing capital (Pp. 79-97) and Chapter 11 – Democratic localism (Pp. 118-129), Part Three – How localization might come about (Pp. 151-236), Appendix I: Answers to some criticisms of the ‘protect the local, globally’ form of localization (Pp. 237-241), Appendix II: ‘Making’ money to fund employment, a citizen’s income and the shift to localization (Pp. 246-255), and A global manifesto (Pp. 256-264). Localization: A Global Manifesto. London, England: Earthscan Publications.

Jackson, Wes (1994) Prologue (Pp. 1-5) and The problem (Pp. 6-13). Becoming Native to This Place. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

Jackson, Wes (1996) Matfield green (Pp. 95-103) In William Vitek & Wes Jackson [Eds.] Rooted in the Land. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Kunstler, James Howard (2008) Making other arrangements (Pp. 318-326). In Bob Banner [Ed.] Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope. San Luis Obispo, CA: Hope Dance Magazine.

McKibben, Bill (2007) Chapter 1 – After growth (Pp. 5-45). Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. New York, NY: Times Books & Henry Hold and Company.

Murphy, Pat (2006) Curtailment and community (Pp. 1-12). Community Solutions, #10. http://www.communitysolution.org/pdfs/NS10.pdf

Murphy, Pat (2008) Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: Canada, New Society Publishers.

Post Carbon Institute (2008) Global relocalization – A call to action (Pp. 279-282). In Bob Banner [Ed.] Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope. San Luis Obispo, CA: Hope Dance Magazine.

Roseland, Mark (1998) Part I: Sustainable Communities, sustainable planet, Chapter 1 – The context for sustainable communities (Pp. 1-13) and Chapter 2 – Toward sustainable communities (Pp. 14-26). Toward sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and their Governments (Revised and updated edition). Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers.

Shuman, M. (1998) Chapter 4 – Financing the future (Pp. 106-122), Chapter 5 – Pro-community local governance (Pp. 123-151) and Chapter 6 – Bringing home power, not bacon (Pp. 152-176). Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. New York: The Free Press.

Trayer, Robert L., Jr. (2003) Chapter 1 – Grounding: Finding the physical place (Pp. 11-31) and Chapter 2 – Living: awakening to a live region (Pp. 32-51). LifePlace: Bioregional Thought and Practice. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Trayer, Robert L., Jr. (2003) Introduction, Bioregional thinking (Pp. 1-9). LifePlace: Bioregional Thought and Practice. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Context: Fiction

Callenbach, E. (1975) Ecotopia. Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books.

Cobb, K. (2010) Prelude. Portage, MI: Public Interest Communications

Kunstler, J. H. (2008) World Made By Hand. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Kunstler, J. H. (2010) The Witch of Hebron. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Le Guin, U. (1985) Always Coming Home. New York, NY: Harper & Row.

Wright, A. T. (1942) Islandia. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books.

SYSTEMS

Systems: Food

Banner, Bob (2008) Food (Pp. 133-188). In Bob Banner [Ed.] Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope. San Luis Obispo, CA: Hope Dance Magazine.

Berry, W. (1977) The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.

Berry, W. (1987) A defense of the family farm (Pp. 162-178). Home Economics. San Francisco, CA: North Point Press.

Berry, W. (1987) Six agricultural fallacies (Pp. 123-132). Home Economics. San Francisco, CA: North Point Press.

Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC handout , undated) Community food security programs: What do they look like? (Pp. 1-4) Retrieved from http://www.foodsecurity.org/pubs.html on 30 June 2008.

Community Food Security Coalition and Partners (2007) Healthy food and communities initiative (Pp. 1-6) Retrieved from http://www.foodsecurity.org/CFSC%20HealthyFoodPub.pdf on 30 June 2008.

Heinberg, R. (2007) Fifty million farmers (Pp. 47-65), Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.