Sustainability and the Civil Commons : Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Age of Globalization -- Corporate Globalization -- Globalization from Below -- 2 Rural Reckoning: The Impacts of Corporate Globalization on Rural Communities -- Economic Impacts -- Political Impacts -- Social Impacts -- Environmental Impacts -- Gendered Impacts -- Cultural Impacts -- 3 Strategies for Sustainability: Building a Theory for Practice -- The Basis of the Theoretical Model -- Commonalities and Differences -- The Formation of the Theoretical Model -- Using the Theoretical Model -- 4 Searching for Sustainability: Past and Present -- The Idea -- The Concept -- The History -- The Watershed: The Brundtland Report -- The Definitions -- Perspectives and Definitions in the Academic Literature -- 5 Searching for Sustainability: Future -- Sustainability as a Set of Structures -- Sustainability as a Set of Processes -- Sustainability as the Civil Commons -- Whose Tragedy of the Commons? -- From the Enclosure of the Commons to the Assault on the Civil Commons -- A New Understanding of Sustainability -- 6 New Directions for Research -- A New Understanding of Sustainable Development -- A New Understanding of Sustainable Rural Community -- Sustainable Globalization -- Living in the Age of Sustainable Globalization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

Sustainability and the Civil Commonsmoves beyond rural roots to build a comprehensive understanding of sustainability that combines global reach with local focus.

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