Building a Radical Ecological Economy for Local Autonomy

Abstract

Autonomy is the desire of millions of people living in communities around the world. Radical Ecological Economics (REE) offers a methodology to understand and support them in their struggles, consolidating their societies, improving their quality of life and conserving their ecosystems. Incorporating core concepts such as: community institutions, governance and self-management, and networks of interaction and organization, we examine multiple success stories of groups that propose to remain on the margins of capitalist organization in the nations of which they are part. We offer a necessary and new theoretical interpretation of the practice of community organizations and their clear advantages in the way they relate to nature.