Re-Constructing the Global Network Economy

This book looks at how to build more resilience into socio-economic networks within local communities. Understanding the relationships between attachment to place, complex systems and patterns of knowledge creation is the challenge we face in bridging the gap between the social worlds that we inhabit and an emerging digital world.

Originally from Liverpool, Andrew Taylor now teaches at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of four collections of poetry from Shearsman Books, and over a dozen with other publishers. He has published a critical volume on Adrian Henri, and is now at work one a monograph on the work of Peter Finch, whose Collected Poems he edited for Seren.

1. Setting the Stage 2. The Old and the New: Regional Development and Transformational Entrepreneurship 3. Stewardship and Resilience in Networked Spaces 4. A Fork in the Road: Exploring Space, Place and Method 5. Zooming from Somewhere to Anywhere: Case Studies 6. Pioneering Stewardship: Thriving in a Networked World 7. Conclusion