This index of selected keywords has been compiled to facilitate the identification of specialized alternative and decentralist literature that is often overlooked by standard keyword searches. However, your choice of keywords to search with is by no means limited to those listed below. The majority of the Library’s holdings have also been indexed according to the Library of Congress subject headings and can be located through searches using standard keywords.
Key to Library of Congress Symbols: UF: Used for BT: Broader topic RT: Related topic SA: See also NT: Narrower topic Etc. indicates additional terms to be found under term provided. |
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES
Alternative energy
RT: Renewable energy
NT: Fuelwood, Hydropower, Hydrogen cells, Solar, Wind energy
Antinuclear
RT: Atomic, Nuclear, Radioactive, Radiation
Appropriate construction
RT: Appropriate design, Building design, Ecological design
Appropriate design
RT: Appropriate construction, etc.
Appropriate technology
RT: Intermediate technology, Human scale
Biotechnology
SA: Bioengeneering
Building design
BT: Architecture
RT: Appropriate construction, etc.
Cottage industries
SA: Cottage industry, Craft movement, Home industry
Craft movement
SA: Cottage industries, etc.
Ecocities
RT: Ecovillages; Appropriate construction, etc.
Ecological design
BT: Architecture
RT: Appropriate construction, etc.
Ecovillages
RT: Ecocities; Appropriate construction, etc.
Energy conservation
RT: Renewable energy, Alternative energy
Fuelwood
BT: Renewable energy
Home industry
SA: Cottage industries, etc.
Human scale
RT: Appropriate technology, Intermediate technology
Hydropower
BT: Renewable energy
Hydrogen cells
BT: Renewable energy
Industry
RT: Industrialization, Industries
Intermediate technology
RT: Appropriate technology, Human scale
Ludditism
SA: Luddites
Progress
RT: Technological imperative
Recycling
Renewable energy
RT: Alternative energy
NT: Fuelwood, Hydropower, Solar energy, Wind energy
Solar energy
RT: Solar heating, solar houses, solar greenhouse, solar greenhouses, solar power
Technological imperative
RT: Progress
Waste management
SA: Waste disposal
Wind energy
BT: Alternative energy, etc.
SA: Wind power
COMMUNITY AND COMMONS
Affordable housing
Ecocities
RT: Ecovillages
Ecovillages
RT: Ecocities
Common property
RT: Commons, Public goods, Public ownership
Commons
RT: Common property, etc.
Communal living
SA: Communes, Intentional community, Intentional communities, Planned community, Planned communities
Communes
SA: Communal living, etc.
Communities
SA: Community
Community currency
BT: Alternative financing
RT: Local currency, etc. under LOCAL ECONOMICS
Community design
Community development
Community economics
Community enterprise
Community investment fund
RT: Alternative financing, etc. under LOCAL ECONOMICS
SA: Community investment funds
Community land trusts
BT: Land trust under LAND
SA: Community land trust
Community loan fund
RT: Alternative financing, etc. under LOCAL ECONOMICS
Community organization
Community organizing
Community participation
Community planning
Community revitalization
Community supported agriculture
RT: Alternative agriculture, etc. under SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
SA: CSA
Human scale
Intentional communities
RT: Communal living, etc.
SA: Intentional community
Native Americans
SA: Indigenous peoples
Planned communities
RT: Communal living, etc.
SA: Planned community
Public goods
RT: Common property, etc.
Public ownership
RT: Common property, etc.
Rural development
SHARE Microcredit Program
Urban development
Utopian communities
Villages
SA: Village life
DECENTRALISM AND DECENTRALIST THINKERS
Agrarianism
Anarchism
Bioregionalism
RT: Regionalism
Citizen action
Cooperatives
SA: Collectives
Decentralism
SA: Decentralization
Economic self sufficiency
BT: Self sufficiency
Food self sufficiency
BT: Self sufficiency
Grassroots
Henry George
SA: Georgist thought, Georgeist thought
Human scale
Import replacement
RT: Self sufficiency
Intentional communities
Jane Jacobs
Libertarianism
RT: Liberalism
Local banking
SA: Local banks, Local bank
Local culture
Local currency
RT: Community currency
Local economy
RT: Regional development, Rural development
SA: Local economics, Local economic solutions
Local government
RT: Neighborhood government
Mahatma Gandhi
Microenterprises
SA: Micro enterprises
Microlending
Neighborhood government
RT: Local government
Participatory democracy
RT: Political participation
Participatory management
RT: Worker management, etc. under WORK
Peter Kropotkin
Political participation
RT: Participatory democracy
Ralph Borsodi
Regional development
RT: Local economy, etc.
Regional economics
RT: Local economy, etc.
SA: Regional economies
Regional land trust
BT: Land trusts, etc. under LAND
Regionalism
RT: Bioregionalism
Rural development
RT: Regional development, Local economy, etc.
Schumacher
Self sufficiency
RT: Import replacement
NT: Economic self sufficiency, Food self sufficiency
Small scale
Thomas Jefferson
SA: Jeffersonianism
Worker management
RT: see under WORK
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND CITIZEN ACTION
Citizen action
Citizen participation
Community participation
Community planning
Democratic governance
RT: Political participation
NT: Economic democracy, Participatory democracy, Workplace democracy
Economic democracy
BT: Democratic governance, Political participation
RT: Workplace democracy
Environmental activism
RT: under ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Participatory democracy
BT: Democratic governance, Political participation
RT: Economic democracy
Political participation
RT: Democratic governance
NT: Economic democracy, Participatory democracy, Workplace democracy
ECOLOGICAL SPIRITUALITY AND LIFE-AFFIRMING ETHICS
Biocentric
Deep ecology
RT: Spiritual ecology
Ecofeminism
Ecology movement
Environmental ethics
Gaia
SA: Gaia hypothesis
Intergenerational justice
Nature religion
SA: Nature religious aspects
Spiritual ecology
RT: Deep ecology
Stewardship
Sustainability
Trusteeship
Values
Voluntary simplicity
Wilderness
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABLE USE OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES
Biodiversity
Conservation
NT: Biodiversity conservation, Conservation easements, Conservation land trusts, Energy conservation, Environmental conservation, Land conservation, Natural resources conservation, Nature conservation, Soil conservation, Water conservation
Ecological crisis
Ecological justice
RT: Intergenerational justice
SA: Environmental justice
Energy conservation
Environmental activism
SA: Environmentalism
Environmental conservation
Environmental health
SA: Environmental quality
Environmental justice
RT: Intergenerational justice
SA: Ecological justice
Environmental protection
Environmental quality
SA: Environmental health
Environmentalism
SA: Environmental activism
Gaia
SA: Gaia hypothesis
Global ecology
Intergenerational justice
RT: Ecological justice, Environmental justice
Land conservation
SA: Land preservation
Land preservation
SA: Land conservation
NT: Farmland preservation
Natural resources conservation
Nature
Recycling
Renewable energy
RT: see APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
Soil conservation
RT: Soil erosion
Stewardship
Trusteeship
Water conservation
RT: Water management, Water preservation, Water resources, Water supply
HUMAN ECOLOGY AND HUMAN IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Birth control
BT: Population, etc.
Climate change
RT: Global change, Global ecology, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Ozone
Consumption
SA: Consumerism
Environmental degradation
Environmental cost
Environmental impact
Environmental policy
Externalities
Family planning
BT: Population, etc.
SA: Birth control
Global change
RT: Climate change, Global ecology, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Ozone
Global ecology
RT: Climate change, Global change, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Ozone
Global warming
RT: Climate change, Global change, Global ecology, Greenhouse effect, Ozone
Greenhouse effect
RT: Climate change, Global change, Global ecology, Global warming, Ozone
Growth
Human ecology
RT: Population, etc.
Overpopulation
BT: Population, etc.
Pollution
Population
NT: Birth control, Family planning, Overpopulation, Population growth
Social transformation
SA: Social change
Urban ecology
LAND
Agricultural land trusts
BT: Land trust, Land trusts
Community land trusts
BT: Land trusts
SA: Land trust
Conservation easements
RT: Conservation land trusts
Conservation land trusts
BT: Land trust, Land trusts
RT: Conservation easements
Farmland preservation
BT: Land preservation
Land banks
SA: Land bank
Land conservation
RT: Land preservation
Land distribution
Land economics
Land ethic
SA: Land ethics
Land ownership
SA: Land tenure
Land preservation
RT: Land conservation
Land reform
Land stewardship
BT: Stewardship
Land taxation
Land tenure
SA: Land ownership
Land trust
SA: Land trusts
NT: Agricultural land trusts, Community land trusts, Community land trust, Conservation easements, Conservation land trusts, Regional land trusts, Urban land trusts
Land use
Land use planning
Local culture
RT: Sense of place
Regional land trusts
BT: Land trust, Land trusts
Soil conservation
RT: Soil erosion
Soil erosion
RT: Soil conservation
Urban land trusts
BT: Land trust, Land trusts
LOCAL ECONOMICS, LOCAL CURRENCY, LOCALIZATION
Alternative banking
RT: Alternative financing, etc.
Alternative currency
SA: Local currency, etc.
Alternative economics
RT: Ecological economics, Environmental economics
Alternative financing
RT: Alternative banking, Community investment fund, Community investment funds, Community loan fund, Cooperative banking, Decentralized banking, Local currency, SHARE
Alternative money
SA: Local currency, etc.
Barter
Capitalism
Community currency
RT: Alternative financing, etc.
SA: Local currency, etc.
Community development
RT: Urban development, etc.
Community economics
RT: Local economy, etc.
Community enterprise
Community investment fund
RT: Alternative financing, etc.
SA: Community investment funds
Community loan fund
RT: Alternative financing, etc.
Community revitalization
RT: Urban renewal, etc.
Cooperative banking
RT: Alternative financing, etc.
Corporations
SA: Corporate, Corporation
Cottage industry
RT: Craft movement, Home industry SA: Cottage industries
Craft movement
RT: Cottage industry, Cottage industries, Home industry
Decentralized banking
RT: Alternative financing, etc.
Decentralized economics
SA: DECENTRALISM
RT: Local economics, Regional economics
Ecological economics
RT: Alternative economics, etc.
Economic justice
Economic reform
Economic self sufficiency
RT: Subsistence economy; Self sufficiency, etc. under SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Economics criticism
Economics ethics
Environmental economics
RT: Alternative economics, etc.
Externalities
Global economics
RT: Global economy, Globalism, Globalization
Green business
Home industry
RT: Cottage industry, Craft movement
Human scale
Import replacement
Income distribution
RT: Wealth distribution
Land economics
Land tenure
RT: Wealth distribution
Local banking
RT: Local currency, Local economy
SA: Local banks, Local bank
Local currency
SA: Alternative currency, Alternative money, Community currency, Private currency, etc.
Local economics
RT: Regional economies, etc., Local banking, Local currency, etc.
SA: Local economy, Local economic solutions
Microenterprise
SA: Micro enterprise, Microenterprises, Small business, Small scale enterprise
Political economy
Private currency
RT: Local currency, etc.
Regional economics
RT: Decentralized economics, Local economics, Rural development
SA: Regional economies, Regional development
Regional development
RT: Rural development
SA: Regional economics, etc.
Rural development
RT: Regional development, Regional economics, etc.
SHARE
Small business
RT: Small scale agriculture under SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
SA: Microenterprise, Small scale enterprise
Small scale enterprise
RT: Small scale agriculture under SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
SA: Microenterprise, Small business
Socially responsible investing
SA: SRI, Socially responsible investment, Socially responsible investments, Socially responsible business, Social investment
SRI
SA: Socially responsible investing, etc.
Steady state economy
Subsistence economy
RT: Economic self sufficiency; Self sufficiency, etc. under SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Sustainable development
Sustainable economics
Urban development
RT: Urban renewal, etc.; Community development, Community revitalization
Urban renewal
RT: Urban development, etc.
SA: Urban revitalization
Wealth distribution
RT: Income distribution, Land tenure
PEACE AND NONVIOLENT ACTION
Conflict resolution
RT: Peace
Conscientious objectors
RT: Peace
SA: Conscientious resistance
Disarmament
RT: Peace
Environmental activism
Global justice
RT: Peace
Green movement
SA: Green party, Green politics
Nonviolence
RT: Peace
SA: Non violence
Nonviolent resistance
BT: Nonviolence
RT: Peace
Pacifism
SA: Peace
Peace
RT: Conflict resolution, Conscientious objectors, Conscientious resistance, Disarmament, Global justice, Nonviolence, Nonviolent resistance, Pacifism
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE & HOMESTEADING
Agrarianism
RT: Village movement
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural land trusts
BT: Land trusts, etc. under LAND
Alternative agriculture
RT: Small farms, Small scale agriculture
SA: Alternative farming, Sustainable agriculture
NT: Biodynamic agriculture, Community supported agriculture, Organic agriculture, Organic farming, Permaculture
Alternative farming
SA: Alternative agriculture, etc.
Alternative pest control
RT: Pest management, Pesticides
Animal husbandry
Aquaculture
Biodynamic agriculture
BT: Alternative agriculture, etc.
CSA
SA: Community supported agriculture
Community supported agriculture
BT: Alternative agriculture etc.
SA: CSA
Compost
SA: Composting
Composting
SA: Compost
Ecovillages
BT: Villages
Farm preservation
RT: Farmland preservation
Farmland preservation
RT: Farm preservation
Flower gardening
BT: Gardening
Food self sufficiency
BT: Self sufficiency
Fruit cultivation
RT: Tree crops
SA: Fruit culture
Fruit culture
RT: Tree crops
SA: Fruit cultivation
Gardening
NT: Flower gardening, Herb gardening, Organic gardening, Vegetable gardening
Herb gardening
BT: Gardening
Homesteading
RT: Rural life, Rural living, Self sufficiency
Human scale
Local culture
Organic agriculture
BT: Alternative agriculture etc.
SA: Organic farming
Organic farming
BT: Alternative agriculture etc.
SA: Organic agriculture
Organic gardening
BT: Gardening
Permaculture
BT: Alternative agriculture etc.
Pest management
RT: Alternative pest control, Pesticides
Pesticides
RT: Alternative pest control, Pest management
Rural development
Rural life
RT: Homesteading, Village life
SA: Rural living
Rural living
RT: Homesteading, Village life
SA: Rural life
Self sufficiency
RT: Homesteading; Economic self sufficiency, etc. under LOCAL ECONOMICS
NT: Food self sufficiency
Small farms
RT: Alternative agriculture etc., Homesteading
SA: Small scale agriculture
Small scale agriculture
RT: Alternative agriculture etc., Homesteading
SA: Small farms
Soil conservation
RT: Soil erosion
Soil erosion
RT: Soil conservation
Solar greenhouse
SA: Solar greenhouses
Solar greenhouses
SA: Solar greenhouse
Sustainable agriculture
SA: Alternative agriculture, etc.
Sustainable forestry
Tree crops
SA: Fruit cultivation, Fruit culture
Vegetable gardening
BT: Gardening
Village life
RT: Rural life, Rural living
Village movement
RT: Agrarianism
Villages
NT: Ecovillages
WEALTH DISTRIBUTION
Economic justice
Global justice
Income distribution
Land tenure
Poverty
Social justice
Wealth distribution
WORK AND RIGHT LIVELIHOOD
Alternative production
RT: Worker management
Consumerism
SA: Consumption
Cooperation
Cooperatives
SA: Cooperative
Employee participation
RT: Worker management
Human scale
Life quality
Lifestyle
Microenterprise
SA: Microenterprises, Micro enterprise
Mondragon
Participatory management
RT: Worker management
Right livelihood
Transforming work
SA: Workplace reform
Voluntary simplicity
Work
Worker cooperatives
Worker management
RT: Alternative production, Employee participation, Participatory management, Worker participation, Workplace democracy
Worker participation
RT: Worker management
Workplace democracy
RT: Worker management, Workplace reform
SA: Transforming work