Note: this section is currently undergoing an update. The entries below are from the 2015 Transition Design Monograph. Over the course of the next several months we will be regularly adding more current resources to this section.

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Aberley, Doug. 2008. “Building a Bioregional, Sustainable Alternative”. In Judith Plant, Christopher Plant and Van Andruss (eds.) Home! A Bioregional Reader, pp.159–160. Gabriola Island, BC: New Catalyst Books.

Berg, Peter and Raymond Dasmann.  2008. “Reinhabiting California”. In Judith Plant, Christopher Plant and Van Andruss (eds.) Home! A Bioregional Reader, pp. 35–38. Gabriola Island, BC: New Catalyst Books.

Bloch, Ernst. 1995. The Principle of Hope. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Borjeson, Lena et al. 2006. “Scenario Types and Techniques: Towards a User’s Guide”. Futures, 38: 723–739.

Brand, Stewart. 1999. The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. New York: Basic Books.

Candy, Stuart. 2015. Whose Future is This? TEDxChristchurch. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxgVxu2mdZI.

Casey, Edward. 2013. The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 

Charles, Leonard et al. 2008. “Where You At? A Bioregional Quiz”. In Judith Plant, Christopher Plant and Van Andruss (eds.) Home! A Bioregional Reader, p. 29. Gabriola Island, BC: New Catalyst Books.

Dunne, Anthony and Fiona Raby. 2013. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming, pp. 1–9. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Escobar, Arturo. 2013 (unpublished). “Transiciones: A Space for Research and Design for Transitions to the Pluriverse” Forthcoming in Design Philosophy Papers, 2015.

Fry, Tony. 2009. Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice. Oxford: Berg. 

Greer, John Michael. 2008. The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers.

Hopkins, Rob. 2008. The Transition Town Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. White River Junction, VT:Chelsea Green Publishing Company.

Hopkins, Rob. 2011. The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.

Knapp, Alex. 2011. “Brian David Johnson: Intel’s Guide to the Future.” Forbes Magazine, October. Available online: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/10/13/brian-david-johnson-intels-guide-to-the-future/.

Kossoff, Gideon. 2011. “Holism and the Reconstitution of Everyday Life: A Framework for Transition to a Sustainable Society.” In Stephan Harding (ed) Grow Small, Think Beautiful: Ideas for a Sustainable World from Schumacher College. Edinburgh: Floris.

Jacoby, Russell. 2005. Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Ant-Utopian Age. New York: Columbia University Press. Manzini, Ezio. 2009. “A Cosmopolitan Localism: Prospects for a Sustainable Local Development and the Possible Role of Design”. In Hazel Clark and David Brody (eds), Design Studies: A Reader, p. 448. New York: Berg.

Manzini, Ezio. 2012. “Resilient Systems and Cosmopolitan Localism – The Emerging Scenarios of the Small, Local, Open and Connected Space.” CNS Ecologia Politica. Available online: http://www.ecologiapolitica.org/wordpress/wp-con tent/uploads/2014/03/Resilient-systems-and-cosmopolitan-localism.pdf.

Manzini, Ezio. 2013. “Small, Local, Open and Connected: Resilient Systems and Sustainable Qualities”. Design Observer. New York: Design Observer Group. Available online: http://designobserver.com/feature/small-local-open-and-con nected-resilient-systems-and-sustainable-qualities/37670.

Manzini, Ezio and François Jégou. 2003. Sustainable Everyday: Scenarios of Urban Life. Milan: Edizioni Ambiente srl.

Margolin, Victor. 2007. “Design, the Future and the Human Spirit”. Design Issues. 23 (3): 4–15. Available online: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/desi.2007.23.3.4

Orr, David. 2005. “Place and Pedagogy”. In Zenobia Barlow and Michael K. Stone (eds) Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World, pp. 85-95. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.

Porritt, Jonathon. 2013. The World We Made: Alex McKay’s Story from 2050. New York: Phaidon Press Limited.

Raskin, Paul et al. 2002. The Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead. Stockholm: Stockholm Environmental Institute and Boston: Tellus Institute. Available online: http://www.world-governance.org/article90.html.

Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network. 2010. Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development. Available online: http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/bba493f7-cc97-4da3-add6-3deb 007cc719.pdf.

Sachs, Wolfgang. 1999. Planet Dialectics: Exploration in Environment and Development. pp. 105-107. London: Zed Books Ltd.

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Shuman, Michael. 2000. Going Local: Creating Self-reliant Communities in a Global Age. New York: Routledge.

Snyder, Gary. 1995. “Reinhabitation”. In Alan Drengson and Yuichi Inoue The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology, pp. 67-73. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.

Speth, James Gustave. 1992. “The Transition to a Sustainable Society”. Proceedings, National Academy of Science, USA, 89: 870–872. Available online: http://www.pnas.org/content/89/3/870.full.pdf.

Tonkinwise, Cameron. 2014. Design for Transition – From and to What? Available online: https://www.academia.edu/11796491/Design_for_Transition_-_from_and_to_what.

Wilkinson, Angela et al. 2013. “How Plausibility-Based Scenario Practices are Grappling with Complexity to Appreciate and Address 21st Century Challenges”. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 80: 699-710. 

Damian, White. 2015. Future by Design. Forthcoming July 2015. London: Bristol Classical Press.

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Augros, Robert and George Stanciu. 198. The New Biology. Boston: Shambhala. 

Benjamin, Barber. 2013. If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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Berkhout, Frans, Adrian Smith, and Andy Stirling . 2003. “Socio-technological Regimes and Transition Contexts.” Science and Technology Policy Research Working Paper Series. Brighton: University of Sussex. Available online: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/spru/publications/imprint/sewps/sewp106/sewp106.pdf.

Berry, Wendell. 2010. What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Community, pp. 186-188. San Francisco: Counterpoint.

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Capra, Fritjof. 1997. The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Anchor Books.

Capra, Fritjof. 2005. “Speaking Nature’s Language: Principles for Sustainability”. In Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow (eds) Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World, pp. 19-29. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Capra, Fritjof and Pier Luigi Luisi,. 2014. The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision.  Padstow, Cornwall: Cambridge University Press.

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Ehrenfeld, John R. 2009. Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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Escobar, Arturo. 2009. “Other Worlds are (Already) Possible: Self-Organization, Complexity and Post Capitalist Cultures”. In Jai Sen and Peter Waterman (eds) World Social Forum, Challenging Empires. Available online: http://www.choike.org/documentos/wsf_s506_escobar.pdf.

Escobar, Arturo. 2011. Encountering Development:The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Flemming, David. 2011. Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. England: Calverts.

Fry, Tony. 2012. Becoming Human by Design. Oxford: Berg.

Fry, Tony, Clive Dilnot,and Susan Stewart. 2015. Design and the Question of History. London: Bloomsbury.

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