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The Permaculture Research Digest has summaries of newly published permaculture-related research. All items are hyper-linked to the original publication.
The 'January 2013' archive contains 60 items published in 2012.
Items marked with a # have restricted public access, although abstracts are freely available.
This paper concerns the decline of cities over the coming decades. Taking the long view, the paper analyses the growth
and fall of civilisations and their cities. The discussion then moves on to how
modern civilisation came about, arriving in a state of ‘Possessive
Individualism’ and our technology-dominated, consumerist world of
megacities. The role played in this by fossil fuels
is analysed and the way this could never have been sustained
for long is made clear. The second half of the paper presents
scenarios of the future, a return to more
localised economies organised as networks of villages. Agriculture and the use of local resources may once
again characterise the way in which societies function. The paper discusses how this might unfold both logistically and in
terms of people's consciousness.
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