2025-01-272025-01-272020Soler Montiel, M.M. y Delgado Cabeza, M. (2020). Rearticulating the Economy from the Local Level: Towards an Economy Rooted in Caring for Life. En D. Fanfani, A. Matarán Ruiz (Ed.), Bioregional Planning and Design: Volumen I Perspectives on a Transitional Century (pp. 63-79). Cham: Springer.https://hdl.handle.net/11441/167607The ongoing ecological degradation, along with the socio-cultural conflicts, creates a pressing need for economic alternatives. The bioregionalist approach requires the construction of a balanced territorial dynamic of human activity, which must harmoniously fit in the biosphere. Therefore, it is necessary to exit the market economy, or even to exit the world of economy and enter the world of life-caring connections. This difficult and slow transition can only be initiated from the "local" by combining change processes in the four strategic areas analysed: sustainable access and management of resources through the enhancement of commons; the reorganization of the sustenance basing on artisanal activity for care; leaving the world of consumption and entering the one of caring for life, and the redefinition of our worldviews and social imaginaries. These necessity-oriented economies entail materialities, activities and relationships that are different from what is currently dominant. Furthermore, they imply different forms of conceiving and understanding reality, different worldviews, epistemologies and ontologies. These "other economies", often excluded and removed by dominant views are creating fair and sustainable ways of providing what is necessary for sustenance starting from the territories, in accordance with bioregional principles.application/pdf17 p.engEcological crisisDegrowthCare of lifeAlternative economyBioregionalisminfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45870-6_4