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Social Economy and Polycentric governance of transitions
Bauwens, Thomas; Mertens de Wilmars, Sybille
2017In Cassiers, Isabelle; Maréchal, Kevin; Méda, Dominique (Eds.) Post-growth Economics and Society : Exploring the paths of a social and ecological transition
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Keywords :
social economy; social enterprise; transition; polycentric governance; cooperatives; nonprofit organisations
Abstract :
[en] The various challenges involved in a socio-ecological transition towards a post-growth society are typical problems of collective action. The current literature on these issues highlights the notion of “polycentric” systems of public good governance, which refers to a multiplicity of independent decision-making centres sharing an overarching set of common rules. A polycentric system also involves a high degree of self-organized citizen participation. The organizational forms necessary to support such citizen participation, however, have received little scholarly attention thus far, at least in relation to the socio-ecological transition. Given these theoretical gaps, this chapter seeks to explore the roles that social economy organizations may play in this respect. We show how their organizational specificities make them particularly well-suited to govern self-organized citizen initiatives and thus to foster the implementation of polycentric governance regimes for a socio-ecological transition. Finally, we apply this framework to two empirical fields: energy and food production and consumption systems.
Research center :
CES - Centre d'Économie Sociale - ULiège
Disciplines :
Social economics
Author, co-author :
Bauwens, Thomas;  Ecole polytechnique de lausanne
Mertens de Wilmars, Sybille ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > Social Entrepreneurship
Language :
English
Title :
Social Economy and Polycentric governance of transitions
Publication date :
November 2017
Main work title :
Post-growth Economics and Society : Exploring the paths of a social and ecological transition
Author, co-author :
Méda, Dominique
Editor :
Cassiers, Isabelle
Maréchal, Kevin ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre > Modélisation et développement
Publisher :
Routledge
ISBN/EAN :
9781138503274
Collection name :
Routldege studies in ecological economics
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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