Transition Area Bouzovsko?

Max Vittrup Jensen M.sc. Planning and Environmental Management,

Aalborg University, Denmark

Is the Transition approach applicable in

socially / culturally less responsive areas?

What does the following images have in common?

‘Totnes- the Nut Capital of Britain’

Tool library; community owned and operated

Vegetable farm in Havana, Cuba

Unschooling

Watt-Watchers.

Community initiated electricity saving device

Participatory decision making

Community Supported Agriculture

Who’s Who’s designing a designing a

creative, creative, positive positive energy energy

descent? descent? (Europe)(Europe)

What’s stopping us? What’s stopping us?

Cognitive Overload Theory (fruit salad experiment)Cognitive Overload Theory (fruit salad experiment)

Short term vs long term thinkingShort term vs long term thinking

Belief in authority figuresBelief in authority figures

Sunk cost, or investment in the presentSunk cost, or investment in the present““it’s difficult convincing a person of something when his job it’s difficult convincing a person of something when his job depends on him not believing it”depends on him not believing it”

OptimismOptimisman optimistic outlook is neurochemically self-fulfillingan optimistic outlook is neurochemically self-fulfilling

Bouzovsko(Or a similar rural area in a post-socialist country)

-Majority of the educated population has left the area

-The town hall represents the remaining voters

-Lack of employment opportunities, especially for skilled labor

-Non-progressive development

-Non-participatory feudal decision processes

-Peer-to-peer exchange system

-Massive centralizing of property, heating, electricity and food production systems

Massive distrust against organized Cooperation

In other words

From top-down socialism

…to...

Egoism

Solution?

Establish viable plans for

Post-Collapse solutions

People transportationFreight transportation

Transportation infrastructureHealth Care

EducationWater at the community level

Land useUrban design

Building communityLocal agriculture and local food

supplyLocal agriculture as an industry

Local hunting Local aquaculture

Local manufacturingRepair as a local industry

Retail tradeEnergy productionWaste disposal

Household preparationSocial and psychological

adjustmentInformation infrastructure

Topics for Post-Collapse solutions

...Or our “common future”may be like this;

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