Introduction to Bioregional Planning. Relocalizing Cities and Communities for a Post-oil Civilization

Abstract

The last global economic crisis, which affected much of the planet since it broke out in 2008, is just one of the many representations of a civilization crisis which threatens to extinguish the very existence of the human species. It is increasingly clear that the problem is not due to a lack of development but to the capitalist and predatory nature of development itself, a concept that has always been linked to the idea of progress. This idea, in turn, is connected to the value system created within the history of the Western civilization (López and Matarán 2011).