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International Journal of Community Currency Research
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Emerging trend of complementary currencies systems as policy instruments for environmental purposes: changes ahead?
Hélène Joachain and Frédéric Klopfert: We contribute to the research on CC as policy instruments for environmental sustainability by presenting a selection of such CC systems and by proposing a taxonomy of their constitutive parameters.
The SOL: A Complementary Currency for the Social Economy and Sustainable Development
May 29, 2012
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This paper reviews experience with The SOL, a very innovative and interesting complementary currency scheme which has been tested in France since 2007. It aims to contribute to the development of the social and solidarity economy, and contribute towards sustainable development. The SOL is the result of an informal working group who in 1998 examined […]
HOUR Town – Paul Glover and the Genesis and Evolution of Ithaca HOURS
May 23, 2012
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Ithaca HOURS are, arguably, the most successful of the local currency experiments of the last two decades. At the height of their popularity in the mid-1990s, perhaps as many as 2,000 of Ithaca and region’s 100,000 residents were buying and selling with HOURS. The high profile of HOURS in the Ithaca community has prompted a […]
Development at the Conjuncture of Feminism and Associationalism
May 23, 2012
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This article looks at whether or not Community Currency Systems form part of an alternative development agenda when analyzed through the lenses of feminism and associationalism. It begins by differentiating Alternative Development, as a static concept, from alternative development which is only comprehensible in its current context and form. The latter, according to the author, […]
July 8, 2012
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