Systemic Alternatives

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Geordan Shannon and Jeremy Lauer:

"Systemic alternatives reflect systems-based approaches that centre place, care, pluralities, and justice, including vivir bien, the commons, degrowth, deglobalization, eco-socialism, the solidarity economy, ecofeminism, food sovereignty and others (Systemic Alternatives, 2014). These systems alternatives support aspects of planetary health, even if not explicitly stated, by positively impacting the relationships and the resources that feed into sustaining the health of each other and the whole. For example, ecofeminism centres caregiving and justice for humans and for nature, highlighting the links between equality, human health, and a healthy environment, while food sovereignty focuses on systems of agency over food production that have direct consequences for human nutrition and land and soil health (Shiva & Mies, 2014).

Systems-based multi-solutions are lived experiments. They’re not a disconnected intellectual project, but something that is embodied and experienced, allowing for learning to occur through practice."

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