Socio-Ecological Transition and Social and Solidarity Economy in the Development of Territorial Communities
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29173/cjnser715Keywords:
territorial community development, so- cioecological transition, systemic transformation, social and solidarity economyAbstract
A research partnership of eight territorial community development structures has highlighted initiatives that have led us to the idea that the social and solidarity-based economy could offer a privileged avenue for translating into concrete projects efforts to achieve the transition from an economy focused on a growth imperative to an economy of sobriety aimed at better collective living. The article begins by outlining how the transition issue arises in the development of the territorial communities where the research was carried out and then identifies how much these initiatives fall within the social/solidarity based economy and how this perspective offers for socioecological innovations a pathway to the systemic transformation demanded by the socioecological transition. The prospect of developing economically viable businesses seems to us to be a necessary step if socioecological transition initiatives are to become an effective lever for systemic change. In this respect, inclusion in Québec’s social economy expertise is an interesting avenue.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 René Lachapelle, Serigne Touba Mbacke Guey, Lucie Morin
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Submission of an original manuscript to the Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research / Revue canadienne de recherche sur les OSBL et l'économie sociale [thereafter CJNSER] will be taken to mean that it represents original work not previously published, and that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication.
The journal takes the stance that the publication of scholarly research is meant to disseminate knowledge and, in a not-for-profit regime, benefits neither publisher nor author financially. It sees itself as having an obligation to its authors and to society to make content available online now that the technology allows for such a possibility. In keeping with this principle, the journal will publish all of its issues online.
Authors who publish in CJNSER agree to release their articles under the Creative Commons 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). This licence allows anyone to copy and distribute the article provided that appropriate attribution is given. For details of the rights an author grants users of their work, please see the licence summary and the full licence.
[Content published between 2010 and 2019-10 was licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 CA) License. Content published between 2019-10 to 2023-12 was licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. Content published after 2023-12 is licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 International (CC BY) License.]
