Living Off-Grid in Wales: Eco-Villages in Policy and Practice

Author: Elaine Forde

ISBN: 9781786836588

Publication Date: 15 November 2020

Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press

Format: Paperback, 218x139 mm, 208 pages

Language: English

Living Off-grid in Wales examines the new policy context for off-grid rural development by contrasting the policy approach with the activist version of going off-grid.

The following has been provided by the Publisher:

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

0 Introduction

1 Wales

2 Y Mynydd: A Village off the Grid

3 Tir y Gafel: A Model Village

4 More Problems with Community

5 Living Off-grid: Towards a Material Culture

6 OPD: Policy in Practice

7 Concluding Remarks

References

Index

Further Information:

• It is the first detailed ethnography of living off grid in an ecovillage.

• It is a useful detailed case study and readers can draw comparisons with other things they know about.

• It examines a relatively new and still innovative Welsh planning policy

• OPD (the policy) has even had some attention from the World Economic Forum. The book is detailed on the policy so potentially useful for policy makers.