Community Economic Development and Trade 22.1

Editorial: Rethinking the Powers of Trade

The invisible hand of the globalized marketplace is far from benign. It leaves human and environmental destruction behind in its clumsy grasping for power and profit. Those of us committed to creating a just, humane and environmentally robust world need to find and to support a different approach to trade. ...

Editorial: Rethinking the Powers of Trade
Susan Wismer

Building Communities to Limit Trade: Following the Example of Women's Initiatives
Ellie Perkins
Building strong communities depends heavily on economic roles often filled by women and on approaches that women have been foremost in expounding and exemplifying.
Inset: Investing in Women by Cheryl Evans

Offsetting Corporate Trade: Free Trade, Community Development and Alternative Trade in the South Pacific
Frank Tester and Glenn Drover
Community development initiatives and alternative trading arrangements point to more ecologically and socially attractive approaches to development.
Inset: What is Trade? by Howard Esbin

Tracing the Trail of Tomasita the Tomato: Popular Education around Globalization
Deborah Barndt
How does a tomato get from a Mexican plantation to a hamburger in a Toronto fast food restaurant?

More Alternatives

Notes

Sun Provides Renewable Energy Alternatives for Developing World
Michael P. Milburn

Green Options for Investments
Tim Johnson

Wildlife's Best Neighbour
Steven Hunt

Reviews

Emery Roe, Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice
Munyaradzi Chenje and Phyllis Johnson, eds.,The State of the Environment in Southern Africa
Husain Sadar and Z. Si, eds., Priority Environmental Issues in Asia: The Need and Importance of Developing Cooperative Approaches
Kraft E. von Maltzahn, Nature as Landscape: Dwelling and Understanding
Michael M'Gonigle and Ben Parfitt, Forestopia: A Practical Guide to the New Forest Economy

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