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NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS: Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet By Anitra Nelson ----------------- ‘With great insight, Anitra Nelson shows how collaborative housing is emerging across the world to re-ignite the ‘Small is Beautiful’ spirit of E.F. Schumacher. This is a wonderful guide featuring inspiring examples for those who want to use shared eco-housing to tackle the challenges ahead’ Paul Chatterton, Professor of Urban Futures, University of Leeds, and co-founder of the Lilac cohousing co-operative ----------------- Buy the book (With a free eBook): http://bit.ly/2zj9EUL ----------------- About the book: Does small mean less? Not necessarily. In an era of housing crises, environmental unsustainability and social fragmentation, the need for more sociable, affordable and sustainable housing is vital. The answer? Shared living - from joint households to land-sharing, cohousing and ecovillages. Using successful examples from a range of countries, Anitra Nelson shows how 'eco-collaborative housing' - resident-driven low impact living with shared facilities and activities - can address the great social, economic and sustainability challenges that householders and capitalist societies face today. Sharing living spaces and facilities results in householders having more amenities and opportunities for neighbourly interaction. Small is Necessary places contemporary models of 'alternative' housing and living at centre stage arguing that they are outward-looking, culturally rich, with low ecological footprints and offer governance techniques for a more equitable and sustainable future. ----------------- Anitra Nelson is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University, Australia. She is the author of Marx’s Concept of Money: The God of Commodities (Routledge, 1999) and editor of Life Without Money (Pluto, 2011). ----------------- PAPERBACK: JANUARY 2018 / 320 PAGES / ISBN 9780745334226 / £19.99 AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK ----------------- Want an inspection copy for your course? Visit www.plutobooks.com/academics Want a book for review? Email the publisher’s publicity team at [log in to unmask] Sign up to the Pluto Press newsletter for new books, news and events: http://bit.ly/1PqkZJ6 Facebook http://bit.ly/2dYqG0b Twitter: http://bit.ly/2dIvU5g You Tube: http://bit.ly/1BwpOre -----------------