TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter will discuss understandings of forms of sustainable political economy within the context of sustainability in the community. Essentially, it will examine the issues which emerge when a community favours a green economic model within the context of the now largely discredited neo-liberal framework that never valued notions of sustainability, and is now largely in crisis due to the market decline and ‘credit crunch’. In addition, the section will outline the significance of community-based political economy for the development of sustainable forms of justice. A sustainable form of political economy incorporates particular concerns, such as ‘the geographical scope of production for local needs, and the exposing and combating the institutions and power structures that lead to poverty and lack of local control’ (Kennet & Heinemann, 2006, p. 78). Under the neo-liberal system, a dichotomy existed between community development and the dominant, yet ultimately unsustainable, growth-based form of political economy.
VL  - 6
SN  - 978-0-85724-301-0, 978-0-85724-302-7/2041-806X
DO  - 10.1108/S2041-806X(2010)0000006007
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-806X(2010)0000006007
AU  - Leonard Liam
AU  - Kenny Paula
ED  - Liam Leonard
ED  - Paula Kenny
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Chapter 4 Sustainable political economy
T2  - Sustainable Justice and the Community
T3  - Advances in Ecopolitics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 111
EP  - 136
Y2  - 2024/04/27
ER  -