The Potentials and Limitations of Self-reliance and Self-sufficiency at the Local Level: Views from southern Sweden

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra J. B. Vergunst
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Southern Sweden ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Self Sufficiency

scholarly journals Coopetitive Nature of Energy Communities—The Energy Transition Context

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 931
Author(s):  
Karolina Mucha-Kuś ◽  
Maciej Sołtysik ◽  
Krzysztof Zamasz ◽  
Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Energy Transformation ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Self Sufficiency

The decentralization of the large-scale energy sector, its replacement with pro-ecological, dispersed production sources and building a citizen dimension of the energy sector are the directional objectives of the energy transformation in the European Union. Building energy self-sufficiency at a local level is possible, based on the so-called Energy Communities, which include energy clusters and energy cooperatives. Several dozen pilot projects for energy clusters have been implemented in Poland, while energy cooperatives, despite being legally sanctioned and potentially a simpler formula of operation, have not functioned in practice. This article presents the coopetitive nature of Energy Communities. The authors analysed the principles and benefits of creating Energy Communities from a regulatory and practical side. An important element of the analysis is to indicate the managerial, coopetitive nature of the strategies implemented within the Energy Communities. Their members, while operating in a competitive environment, simultaneously cooperate to achieve common benefits. On the basis of the actual data of recipients and producers, the results of simulations of benefits in the economic dimension will be presented, proving the thesis of the legitimacy of creating coopetitive structures of Energy Communities.

scholarly journals Does eating local food reduce the environmental impact of food production and enhance consumer health?

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Edwards-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Non Local ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

The concept of local food has gained traction in the media, engaged consumers and offered farmers a new marketing tool. Positive claims about the benefits of local food are probably not harmful when made by small-scale producers at the local level; however, greater concern would arise should such claims be echoed in policy circles. This review examines the evidence base supporting claims about the environmental and health benefits of local food. The results do not offer any support for claims that local food is universally superior to non-local food in terms of its impact on the climate or the health of consumers. Indeed several examples are presented that demonstrate that local food can on occasions be inferior to non-local food. The analysis also considers the impact on greenhouse gas emissions of moving the UK towards self-sufficiency. Quantitative evidence is absent on the changes in overall emissions that would occur if the UK switched to self-sufficiency. A qualitative assessment suggests the emissions per item of food would probably be greater under a scenario of self-sufficiency than under the current food system. The review does not identify any generalisable or systematic benefits to the environment or human health that arise from the consumption of local food in preference to non-local food.

From Refugee to Entrepreneur? Challenges to Refugee Self-reliance in Berlin, Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Embiricos
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Entrepreneurial Success ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract The years following the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 saw unprecedented efforts to promote the social and economic inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers. Entrepreneurship has been praised as a promising route to refugee self-reliance, but its viability remains contested and under-researched in developed economies such as Germany. Limited literature on the topic suggests entrepreneurship is a useful route to self-sufficiency, although refugees face more barriers than other immigrant entrepreneurs, such as language barriers and bureaucratic processes. This article uses semi-structured interviews with refugee entrepreneurs, civil society, social enterprises and the public sector to identify the main challenges for refugee entrepreneurs and to examine whether entrepreneurship is effective for achieving self-reliance in one of the most important centres for creating innovative projects supporting refugee inclusion and entrepreneurship, namely Berlin. Though it is too early to demonstrate whether entrepreneurship has long-term economic gains, this research shows that entrepreneurship is not a ‘fast track’ to economic self-reliance, but has several benefits for social inclusion. It also demonstrates the importance of holistic support systems for refugee entrepreneurs and the difficulty of refugee entrepreneurial success even in the most developed economies.

Go West initiative may increase China’s self-reliance

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Western China ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Ethnic Tensions ◽  
Self Sufficiency

Significance It is also designed to enable greater reliance on domestic resources and markets in an increasingly hostile international geopolitical environment. Infrastructure is the core of the strategy. Impacts The most visible impact will be the construction of infrastructure, especially in transport, energy and the high-tech sector. Foreign investors are likely to play little if any role in Go West. Some foreign firms may benefit if costs fall and incomes rise in Western China; others will lose out if China’s self-sufficiency increases. Economic growth will not reduce ethnic tensions in Xinjiang and Tibet if ethnic Han benefit disproportionately.

Lollard Survival and the Textile Industry in the South-east of England

1966 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 191-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The South ◽  
Rural Industry ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
Textile Worker ◽  
South West ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Edward Iii

There is nothing new in the observation that cloth workers are frequently to be found in heterodox movements. The participation of weavers and other textile artisans in popular heresy on the continent has been amply demonstrated, extending from the popular response to Gregory VII’s denunciation of simony and married clergy, and the first stirrings of the heresy of the Free Spirit in the Rhineland, to Flagellants, Taborites, Storchites, and the militant Anabaptism of the sixteenth century. In England, Professor Dickens has noted the local Lollard tradition existing in the textile villages of south-west Kent where Edward III had settled John Kemp and his Flemish artisans in 1331, Cranbrook, Tenterden, and Benenden becoming notable centres of dyed broadcloth manufacture. In explaining the connection between textiles and the survival of Lollardy, Professor Dickens has stressed the mobility of the textile worker, while centres of rural industry had a relatively independent status in the medieval scene, which may well have led to relatively in dependent thinking. Regular mobility is best typified by the middleman who usually operated on a fairly local level, regional self-sufficiency in wool supply not really being broken down until the mid-sixteenth century.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCIAL DECENTRALIZATION AS A BASIS FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-202
Author(s):  
Tetiana Stroiko ◽  
Natalia Danik ◽  
Dmytro Prokofyev
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Effective Option ◽  
High Level ◽  
Management Functions

The purpose of this article is to analyze the achieved results in the process of financial decentralization in Ukraine, with the further improvement of the methodology of its implementation for increasing the efficiency in the system of financial security of local budgets. Methodology. For the purpose of substantiation of directions of financial decentralization development in conditions of hromadas self-sufficiency the following modern methods of research are used: historical, dialectical method of knowledge, system analysis, abstractedly-logical, graphic, statistical.The object of the study is the processes of development of financial decentralization through the prism of self-sufficiency of hromadas. The theoretical basis of this research is the fundamental provisions of economic theory, national economy, state and regional administration, and theory of local finance.Results. It has been proved that the most effective option is when the population residing in a particular territory takes part in the implementation of management functions in the region, which requires significant financial resources to ensure the implementation of management responsibilities. It is for this purpose that the process of decentralization, which is a complex and multi-component process connected with fiscal decentralization, was initiated in Ukraine.It has been substantiated that for further effective reform it is necessary to solve the issue of changes in the Constitution of Ukraine, as well as in the administrative organization of the country.Practical implications. It is determined that the keynote of fiscal decentralization is the principle of fiscal equivalence, when the efficiency of a particular hromada is achieved through such a mechanism of formation of revenues to local budgets that the end consumer of public goods at the local level will be financially responsible for expenses, as well as their order, volume and priority, within the limits of taxes transferred to them. The tax system bottlenecks of personal income were identified.  It has been proven that the more freedom in setting the rates of local taxes and fees is given to local governments, the more there is an opportunity to set them at a level that will be suggested by local residents, because the hromada will demand at a high level of taxation a proper quality provision for their vital needs and, in addition, local government accountability. 

The State of Food Production and Nutrition in the Developing Countries

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
K. Ghebremeskel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
South American ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Food Patterns ◽  
Food Requirement

The genesis of the problem of food production and nutrition of African, Asian and Central and South American countries can be traced back to the beginning of ‘inter-continental trade’ and the emergence of colonialism. Indigenous food patterns and social and economic orders that had evolved to befit the inhabitants and the environment were destroyed. A nutritional framework and an agricultural and economic policy designed to benefit the colonising nations were fostered. At present, millions of people in the developing countries suffer from endemic undernutrition and associated diseases. Famine is always present under the surface claiming families and individual hamlets and breaks through when the semblance of equilibrium between minimal food requirement for survival and supply is disturbed by natural or man-made disaster. Landlessness, an uneven distribution of wealth, overemphasis on cash-crop production, neglect of peasant agriculture in favour of unnecessary expenditure on military hardware and other misguided projects, and crop specialisation are some of the factors responsible for food shortage and undernutrition. Moreover, most of the staple foods of the developing countries are of low energy density and deficient in some essential nutrients. The cycle of undernutrition, hunger, disease and death can only be broken by instituting a well planned, peasant-orientated, integrated development programme based on self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

POSSIBILITIES TO CREATE AUTONOMOUS ENERGY REGIONS USING RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES

2018 ◽  
Vol XX (3) ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Waldemar Gostomczyk
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Self Sufficiency

The aim of the study is to analyze the level of energy self-sufficiency at the regional and local level. At the level of voivodships, the production of electricity, its relation to the energy consumed, the volume and dynamics of changes in the production of renewable energy in 2010-2016 and its share in total production are presented. Autonomous energy regions have been characterized as structures allowing to strive for energy self-sufficiency. The tests and analyzes used a comparative method and a breakdown of individual categories according to the analyzed values. As a result of the conducted analyzes, it was found that an important role in achieving energy self-sufficiency will be performed by micro and small installations based on local resources.

scholarly journals Local Wisdom of Capital in Development in Aceh Besar Regency

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-320
Author(s):  
Helmi Satria ◽  
Efi Safira
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The People ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Community Presence ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level ◽  
Depth Interviews

Development using a centralized approach without developing community self-reliance today is unable to solve various social problems due to the lack of developing community presence in development activities. Community development will be effective when local wisdom is used as capital by utilizing existing organizations or habits at the local level. In this case, the government as the party that provides encouragement and assistance in implementing development is enough to act as a facilitator and motivator. Let the community formulate and implement the types of development activities and how to implement them. Based on this description, the objectives of this research are as follows: (1) To describe local wisdom as development capital in the study of social reality in Aceh Besar Regency. (2) To analyze the forms of local wisdom used in development in Aceh Besar Regency. This study uses a qualitative approach in describing local wisdom as development capital with data collection techniques that the researchers did through observation, in-depth interviews and documentation. The research informants were determined by purposive sampling with consideration of their experiences in social life and their personalities. The results of the study indicate that the high level of local wisdom possessed by the people of Aceh Besar Regency is caused by a strong social base, as well as the historical orientation and dimension of the formation of social values ​​and norms in social life due to the similarity of religion and kinship relations, so that it has an impact on implementation. development. Local wisdom that supports development in the form of agreements, cooperation, participation that is used as a habit can produce high cohesiveness in the people of Aceh Besar, and there is a passion for charity in carrying out development as well as a sense of volunteerism that evokes self-reliance as well as a strong sense of social solidarity in society. Local wisdom possessed by members of the Aceh Besar Regency community is used as capital in development in the form of trust, social networks and social norms that are still strong enough to support the realization of development in accordance with community expectations.

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