Participatory Sustainability: Notes for an emerging field of civilizational engagement - Softcover

Atlee, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542856396 ISBN 13: 9781542856393

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Participatory Sustainability introduces the idea that sustainability cannot be achieved merely through top-down government policy or economic activity. Sustainability requires the participation of all people and all parts of society, working with each other and with nature. The book provides dozens of approaches for doing this, including guidance for generating collective wisdom, participatory leadership, inclusive participatory forms of power, and six expanded dimensions of intelligence we can use together to address the depth and complexity of the challenges we face. Recognition of the intrinsic participatory nature of both sustainability (co-creating a good life for our grandchildren) and non-sustainability (co-creating disaster) provides both motivation and direction for making a better world, starting immediately.

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About the Author

Tom Atlee is founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute and author of four books including The Tao of Democracy and Empowering Public Wisdom as well as dozens of articles for alternative journals and hundreds more for his blogs and websites, all accessible through co-intelligence.org. His collaborations cover the topics of sustainability, deliberative democracy, collective intelligence, complexity, peace, and conscious evolution. In 2017 he launched the participatory Wise Democracy Pattern Language Project to develop design elements for co-creating political systems that can dependably generate practical wisdom. He works with his granddaughter's future in mind.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1542856396
• ISBN 13: 9781542856393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92