ABSTRACT
Since the 1970s community-based economy has emerged as a local strategy for confronting the growing ecological and social uncertainties and the multiple crises of a global market economy. It is an effective approach to combat poverty, foster eco-social transformation, and create more equitable, independent, self-reliant, and resilient communities. The resilience of a community means that it has the capacity to deal with changes and cope with pressure from outside. The current eco-social challenges in society are intertwined and call for synergetic and comprehensive solutions. Diversity, whether biodiversity or cultural diversity; the plurality of organizational structures or economic transactions; and strong networks in human systems all support the building of resilience in this sense. While further development programs focus on moving people out of poverty, along the logic of the eco-social turn, community-based development approaches aim to change institutions and have a broader view of humans as stewards of their own future on earth (Folke 2016).
