Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems

This book presents five critical dimensions on relationships, institutions, produc-tion, organisation, and governance from design and systems perspectives for thesystematic transition of unstable and vulnerable communities across the world tosustainable community systems.- The first section discusses features of relationships and processes to deepencooperation and trust within a community.- The second section examines institutions within and outside a district tofoster synergy across institutions within a district and to minimise negativeexternalities on local communities within a district.- The third section deals with food production systems that are nature-friendly, resilient, efficient and sustainable.- The fourth section discusses the design of producer organisations that cangraduate to become sustainable community enterprise systems.-The fifth section focuses on community governance that can facilitatedecentralised, participatory, transparent and democratic local governancesystems.
This book- offers a fresh perspective on design thinking for optimising internal designconsistencies.- provides a systems perspective on building sustainable community systemsat the lowest governance unit in different countries, such as Ward/GramPanchayat/Panchayat Council/Gewong/Union Council/GN.- gives insights into design & systems perspectives towards buildingsustainable community systems within a district of any country across theworld.