In Radical Ecological Economics author David Barkin describes how Communities are realizing that they can be better off by taking control over their territories and organizing themselves collectively to assure the production of their needs and the conservation of their environments through direct democracy, based on a better understanding of social relations along with the connections between the economy, society and nature, placing power at the center of our analysis.
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