Do community currencies enhance sustainable quality of life?

Mock, Mirijam; Omann, Ines; Rauschmayer, Felix; Fuchs, Daniela

[working paper]

dc.contributor.author	Mock, Mirijam	de
dc.contributor.author	Omann, Ines	de
dc.contributor.author	Rauschmayer, Felix	de
dc.contributor.author	Fuchs, Daniela	de
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-12T08:37:15Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-12T08:37:15Z
dc.date.issued	2013	de
dc.identifier.issn	1436-140X	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/36182
dc.description.abstract	Community currencies and their contribution to a sustainable development have been quite widely discussed. In contrast, their potential to raise the personal quality of life of their members and users has been less noted. Combining these two strands, we argue that community currencies enhance an individual sustainable quality of life. We underpin this by analysing data of an online survey of members and users of community currencies in Austria and Germany. The theoretical foundation of our analysis is the Capability Approach and its notion of quality of life, saying that a high quality of life is characterized by high freedom of choice of valuable doings and beings. A sustainable high quality of life would then be characterized by a high freedom of choice within the limits given by planetary boundaries and further sustainability criteria. This perspective allows inferringthat community currencies do not just contribute to sustainable development via their often emphasized effects in the field of regionalization and local value added, but in a much more encompassing way.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Wirtschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Economics	en
dc.title	Do community currencies enhance sustainable quality of life?	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet	de
dc.description.review	reviewed	en
dc.source.volume	16/2013	de
dc.publisher.country	DEU
dc.publisher.city	Leipzig	de
dc.source.series	UFZ Discussion Papers
dc.subject.classoz	National Economy	en
dc.subject.classoz	Volkswirtschaftstheorie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Bundesrepublik Deutschland	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Tausch	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Austria	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Lebensqualität	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Gesellschaftsordnung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Österreich	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Geldsystem	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Verhaltensänderung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	behavior modification	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Wirtschaftsordnung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Federal Republic of Germany	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Entscheidungsspielraum	de
dc.subject.thesoz	sustainable development	en
dc.subject.thesoz	economic system	en
dc.subject.thesoz	decision making leeway	en
dc.subject.thesoz	unemployment	en
dc.subject.thesoz	quality of life	en
dc.subject.thesoz	barter	en
dc.subject.thesoz	resilience	en
dc.subject.thesoz	nachhaltige Entwicklung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Wertschöpfung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Arbeitslosigkeit	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Resilienz	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social structure	en
dc.subject.thesoz	exclusion	en
dc.subject.thesoz	monetary system (national)	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Exklusion	de
dc.subject.thesoz	value added	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-361824
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht-kommerz., Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike	en
ssoar.contributor.institution	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ	de
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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dc.type.stock	monograph	de
dc.type.document	Arbeitspapier	de
dc.type.document	working paper	en
dc.source.pageinfo	23	de
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dc.contributor.corporateeditor	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
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dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
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