Community economies in eco-communities: Spaces of collaboration, opportunities and dilemmas

Malý Blažek, Jan

Community economies in eco-communities: Spaces of collaboration, opportunities and dilemmas

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9781350528185.ch19.pdf(490.88 KB)

Date

2025-07-10

Authors

Malý Blažek, Jan

ORCID

0000-0002-5255-0982

Publisher

Bloomsbury

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Abstract

While there is evidence of concrete environmental outcomes from eco-communities and anthropological research has informed on the cultural or governance aspects of living together, relatively little research has focused on eco-communities from an economic perspective, including their economic and financial sustainability, impact on local economies and the conceptualization of different economic, organizational and co-production models and their replicable potential. In this chapter, I argue that in order to understand their potential in terms of transformation/resilience, there needs to be also a more robust elaboration of how their social and environmental goals and outcomes relate to their economies. This requires both a theoretical framework and more empirical evidence.

Keywords

eco-communities, eco-collaborative housing, community economy, diverse economy, Europe

Citation

Eco-communities: Surviving well together. 2025, p. 285-298.
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781350528185&pdfid=9781350528185.ch-19.pdf&tocid=b-9781350528185-chapter19

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Peer-reviewed

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Published version

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en

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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