RT Journal Article
T1 Socially-Inclusive Development and Value Creation: How a Composting Project in Galicia (Spain) ‘Hit the Rocks’
A1 Swagemakers, Paul
A1 Domínguez García, María Dolores
A1 Wiskerke, Johannes S. C.
AB This paper introduces the concept of commoning in circular economies, and explores how commons reproduce over time. The starting point is that commoning can have an important role in fostering circular economies and sustainable and socially-inclusive development. By commoning, we refer to local stakeholders working collectively to preserve or restore their natural resource base to generate benefits that are locally shared. Through the analysis of a specific case of a group of commoners’ associations in Galicia (Spain), the paper describes and discusses the development, and ultimate unravelling, of an innovative and decentralized waste management project to convert waste biomass from the monte (often-neglected upland green spaces, largely consisting of brush and trees) into compost. In order to make this composting project economically viable the possibility of collecting and processing urban green waste was also explored. While the project’s application of the principles of a circular economy had the potential to bring locally-shared economic and ecological benefits, and foster territorial prosperity and resilience, it was ultimately frustrated by questions of scale, administrative and regulatory barriers, competing and conflicting land-use claims and financial cutbacks in the public sector.
PB MPDI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19123
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19123
LA eng
NO Unión Europea. FP7
NO Xunta de Galicia
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025