Overview
- Provides a systems perspective to building sustainable community systems at the lowest governance unit
- Gives insight on possible perspectives towards building sustainable community systems within a particular district of any country across the world
- Offers a fresh perspective to design thinking for optimizing internal design consistencies
Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 26)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Relationships
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Production: Sustainable Agricultural Systems
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About this book
tion, organisation, and governance from design and systems perspectives for the
systematic transition of unstable and vulnerable communities across the world to
sustainable community systems.
• The first section discusses features of relationships and processes to deepen
cooperation and trust within a community.
• The second section examines institutions within and outside a district to
foster synergy across institutions within a district and to minimise negative
externalities on local communities within a district.
• The third section deals with food production systems that are nature-
friendly, resilient, efficient and sustainable.
• The fourth section discusses the design of producer organisations that can
graduate to become sustainable community enterprise systems.
•The fifth section focuses on community governance that can facilitate
decentralised, participatory, transparent and democratic local governance
systems.
This book
• offers a fresh perspective on design thinking for optimising internal design
consistencies.
• provides a systems perspective on building sustainable community systems
at the lowest governance unit in different countries, such as Ward/Gram
Panchayat/Panchayat Council/Gewong/Union Council/GN.
• gives insights into design & systems perspectives towards building
sustainable community systems within a district of any country across the
world.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems
Book Subtitle: Design and Systems Perspectives
Editors: Amar KJR Nayak
Series Title: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00356-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00355-5Published: 04 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00356-2Published: 23 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2367-4024
Series E-ISSN: 2367-4032
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 347
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainability Management, Sustainable Development, Development and Sustainability, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Social Work and Community Development