Policy Implications
From calamity to community enterprise
Ann Hill, Jojo Rom
This paper highlights social enterprise development as a post-disaster livelihood re-building strategy that has the potential to build resilience and foster disaster preparedness in local communities.
Hill, A. and Rom, P. 2011. From calamity to community enterprise, Asian Currents. May, 7-9.
Diverse Food Economies
Jenny Cameron
This paper uses the Diverse Economies Framework to explore initiatives that have been developed to build more sustainable and ethical food futures, and to identify policy and reseach activities that might help strengthen these initiatives.
Cameron, J. and R. Gordon 2010. Building sustainable and ethical food futures through economic diversity: options for a mid-sized city'. Paper presented at the Policy Workshop on The Future of Australia's Mid-Sized Cities, Latrobe University, Bendigo, Australia, Sept 29-30.
Business as Usual or Economic Innovation?: Work, Markets and Growth in Community and Social Enterprises
Jenny Cameron
This paper explores the different and diverse economic practices that two Community Supported Agriculture initiatives use to enact their ethical commitments. The paper considers what this means for current government support for social and community enterprises.
Cameron, J. 2010, Forthcoming. Business as usual or economic innovations? work, markets and growth in community enterprises, Third Sector Review 16(2).
Rethinking rural transformation
Katherine Gibson, A Cahill, D Mckay
This paper draws on ecological ideas to rethink the dynamics of rural economic transformation in the Philippines.
K. Gibson, A. Cahill and D. McKay, 2010 Rethinking the dynamics of rural transformation in a Philippine municipality Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers volume: pages
Social Innovation for Community Economies
Gerda Roelvink, JK Gibson-Graham
In this chapter we stage a conversation between two innovative and longstanding projects, (1) the multiphase European-based research project on local social innovation that is represented in this book and (2) the Community Economies project which is engaged in rethinking economy through action research in Australia, the Philippines and the US.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. and G. Roelvink. 2009. Social innovation for community economies, in D. MacCallum, F. Moulaert, J. Hillier and S. Haddock (eds) Social Innovation and Territorial Development, Ashgate, Farnham, UK, 25-37.
Building Community Economies in Marginalised Areas
Jenny Cameron, Katherine Gibson
Elaborates an economic and social policy response to disadvantage that builds on the skills and ideas of marginalised groups.
Gibson, K. & Cameron. J. 2005. Building Community Economies in Marginalised Areas, in P. Smyth, T. Reddel & A. Jones (eds) Community and Local Governance in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 149-166.