Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change

By Anthony Flaccavento

Book Overview

The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives-and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the total economy and are largely ignored by policy m

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813167590
• ISBN13: 9780813167596
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up