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Seyfang, Gill 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4696-0798 and Longhurst, Noel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1630-0150
(2013)
Growing green money? Mapping community currencies for sustainable development.
Ecological Economics, 86.
pp. 65-77.
ISSN 0921-8009
Abstract
Parallel sustainable monetary systems are being developed by civil society groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), informed by ecological economics perspectives on development, value, economic scale and growth, and responding to the unsustainability of current global financial systems. These parallel systems of exchange (or community currencies) are designed to promote sustainable development by localising economic development, building social capital and substituting for material consumption, valuing work which is marginalised in conventional labour markets, and challenging the growth-based monetary system. However, this international movement towards community-based ecological economic practices, is under-researched. This paper presents new empirical evidence from the first international study of the scope and character of community currencies. It identifies the diversity, scale, geography and development trajectory of these initiatives, discusses the implications of these findings for efforts to achieve sustainable development, and identifies future research needs, to help harness the sustainability potential of these initiatives. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | complementary currencies,community currencies,lets,time banks,new economics,grassroots innovations,sustainable development,degrowth,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Gill Seyfang |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2013 22:36 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2023 01:21 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40522 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.11.003 |
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