Selected Keyword Index
This index of selected keywords has been compiled to facilitate the identification of specialized alternative and decentralist literature that is often overlooked by standard keyword searches. However, your choice of keywords to search with is by no means limited to those listed below. The majority of the Library's holdings have also been indexed according to the Library of Congress subject headings and can be located through searches using standard keywords.
The Selected Keyword Index provides terminology for specialized topics within the following main categories:
Appropriate
Technology and Renewable Energy Sources
Community and Commons
Decentralism and Decentralist Thinkers
Democratic Governance and Citizen Action
Ecological Spirituality and Life-Affirming Ethics
Environmental Protection, Biodiversity Conservation, and Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources
Human Ecology and Human Impact on the Environment
Human Scale
Land
Local Economics, Local Currency, Localization
Peace and Nonviolent Action
Sustainable Agriculture and Homesteading
Wealth Distribution
Work and Right Livelihood
Key to Library of Congress Symbols:
UF: Used for
BT: Broader topic
RT: Related topic
SA: See also
NT: Narrower topic
Etc. indicates additional terms to be found under term provided.
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
- Alternative energy
- RT: Renewable energy
- NT: Fuelwood, Hydropower, Hydrogen cells, Solar, Wind energy
- Antinuclear
- RT: Atomic, Nuclear, Radioactive, Radiation
- Appropriate construction
- RT: Appropriate design, Building design, Ecological design
- Appropriate design
- RT: Appropriate construction, etc.
- Appropriate technology
- RT: Intermediate technology, Human scale
- Biotechnology
- SA: Bioengeneering
- Building design
- BT: Architecture
- RT: Appropriate construction, etc.
- Cottage industries
- SA: Cottage industry, Craft
movement, Home industry
- Craft movement
- SA: Cottage industries, etc.
- Ecocities
- RT: Ecovillages; Appropriate construction, etc.
- Ecological design
- BT: Architecture
- RT: Appropriate construction, etc.
- Ecovillages
- RT: Ecocities; Appropriate construction, etc.
- Energy conservation
- RT: Renewable energy, Alternative energy
- Fuelwood
- BT: Renewable energy
- Home industry
- SA: Cottage industries, etc.
- Human scale
- RT: Appropriate technology,
Intermediate technology
- Hydropower
- BT: Renewable energy
- Hydrogen cells
- BT: Renewable energy
- Industry
- RT: Industrialization, Industries
- Intermediate technology
- RT: Appropriate
technology, Human scale
- Ludditism
- SA: Luddites
- Progress
- RT: Technological imperative
- Recycling
- Renewable energy
- RT: Alternative energy
- NT: Fuelwood, Hydropower, Solar energy, Wind energy
- Solar energy
- RT: Solar heating, solar houses, solar greenhouse, solar greenhouses, solar power
- Technological imperative
- RT: Progress
- Waste management
- SA: Waste disposal
- Wind energy
- BT: Alternative energy, etc.
- SA: Wind power
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COMMUNITY AND COMMONS
- Affordable housing
- Ecocities
- RT: Ecovillages
- Ecovillages
- RT: Ecocities
- Common property
- RT: Commons, Public goods, Public
ownership
- Commons
- RT: Common property, etc.
- Communal living
- SA: Communes, Intentional community, Intentional communities, Planned community, Planned communities
- Communes
- SA: Communal living, etc.
- Communities
- SA: Community
- Community currency
- BT: Alternative financing
- RT: Local currency, etc. under LOCAL ECONOMICS
- Community design
- Community development
- Community economics
- Community enterprise
- Community investment fund
- RT: Alternative financing, etc.
under LOCAL ECONOMICS
- SA: Community
investment funds
- Community land trusts
- BT: Land trust under LAND
- SA: Community land trust
- Community loan fund
- RT: Alternative financing,
etc. under LOCAL ECONOMICS
- Community organization
- Community organizing
- Community participation
- Community planning
- Community revitalization
- Community supported agriculture
- RT: Alternative agriculture, etc. under SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
- SA: CSA
- Human scale
- Intentional communities
- RT: Communal living, etc.
- SA: Intentional community
- Native Americans
- SA: Indigenous peoples
- Planned communities
- RT: Communal living, etc.
- SA: Planned community
- Public goods
- RT: Common property, etc.
- Public ownership
- RT: Common property, etc.
- Rural development
- SHARE
- Urban development
- Utopian communities
- Villages
- SA: Village life
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DECENTRALISM AND DECENTRALIST THINKERS
- Agrarianism
- Anarchism
- Bioregionalism
- RT: Regionalism
- Citizen action
- Cooperatives
- SA: Collectives
- Decentralism
- SA: Decentralization
- Economic self sufficiency
- BT: Self sufficiency
- Food self sufficiency
- BT: Self sufficiency
- Grassroots
- Henry George
- SA: Georgist thought, Georgeist
thought
- Human scale
- Import replacement
- RT: Self sufficiency
- Intentional communities
- Jane Jacobs
- Libertarianism
- RT: Liberalism
- Local banking
- SA: Local banks, Local bank
- Local culture
- Local currency
- RT: Community currency
- Local economy
- RT: Regional development, Rural
development
- SA: Local economics, Local economic
solutions
- Local government
- RT: Neighborhood government
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Microenterprises
- SA: Micro enterprises
- Microlending
- Neighborhood government
- RT: Local government
- Participatory democracy
- RT: Political
participation
- Participatory management
- RT: Worker management,
etc. under WORK
- Peter Kropotkin
- Political participation
- RT: Participatory
democracy
- Ralph Borsodi
- Regional development
- RT: Local economy, etc.
- Regional economics
- RT: Local economy, etc.
- SA: Regional economies
- Regional land trust
- BT: Land trusts, etc. under
LAND
- Regionalism
- RT: Bioregionalism
- Rural development
- RT: Regional development, Local
economy, etc.
- Schumacher
- Self sufficiency
- RT: Import replacement
- NT: Economic self sufficiency,
Food self sufficiency
- Small scale
- Thomas Jefferson
- SA: Jeffersonianism
- Worker management
- RT: see under WORK
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DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND CITIZEN ACTION
- Citizen action
- Citizen participation
- Community participation
- Community planning
- Democratic governance
- RT: Political
participation
- NT: Economic democracy, Participatory democracy, Workplace democracy
- Economic democracy
- BT: Democratic governance, Political participation
- RT: Workplace democracy
- Environmental activism
- RT: under ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
- Participatory democracy
- BT: Democratic governance, Political participation
- RT: Economic democracy
- Political participation
- RT: Democratic governance
- NT: Economic democracy, Participatory
democracy, Workplace democracy
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ECOLOGICAL SPIRITUALITY AND LIFE-AFFIRMING ETHICS
- Biocentric
- Deep ecology
- RT: Spiritual ecology
- Ecofeminism
- Ecology movement
- Environmental ethics
- Gaia
- SA: Gaia hypothesis
- Intergenerational justice
- Nature religion
- SA: Nature religious aspects
- Spiritual ecology
- RT: Deep ecology
- Stewardship
- Sustainability
- Trusteeship
- Values
- Voluntary simplicity
- Wilderness
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION,
SUSTAINABLE USE OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES
- Biodiversity
- Conservation
- NT: Biodiversity conservation,
Conservation easements, Conservation land trusts,
Energy conservation, Environmental conservation,
Land conservation, Natural resources conservation,
Nature conservation, Soil conservation, Water
conservation
- Ecological crisis
- Ecological justice
- RT: Intergenerational justice
- SA: Environmental justice
- Energy conservation
- Environmental activism
- SA: Environmentalism
- Environmental conservation
- Environmental health
- SA: Environmental quality
- Environmental justice
- RT: Intergenerational justice
- SA: Ecological justice
- Environmental protection
- Environmental quality
- SA: Environmental health
- Environmentalism
- SA: Environmental activism
- Gaia
- SA: Gaia hypothesis
- Global ecology
- Intergenerational justice
- RT: Ecological justice, Environmental justice
- Land conservation
- SA: Land preservation
- Land preservation
- SA: Land conservation
- NT: Farmland preservation
- Natural resources conservation
- Nature
- Recycling
- Renewable energy
- RT: see APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
- Soil conservation
- RT: Soil erosion
- Stewardship
- Trusteeship
- Water conservation
- RT: Water management, Water
preservation, Water resources, Water supply
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HUMAN ECOLOGY, HUMAN IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
- Birth control
- BT: Population, etc.
- Climate change
- RT: Global change, Global ecology, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Ozone
- Consumption
- SA: Consumerism
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental cost
- Environmental impact
- Environmental policy
- Externalities
- Family planning
- BT: Population, etc.
- SA: Birth control
- Global change
- RT: Climate change, Global ecology, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Ozone
- Global ecology
- RT: Climate change, Global change, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Ozone
- Global warming
- RT: Climate change, Global change, Global ecology, Greenhouse effect, Ozone
- Greenhouse effect
- RT: Climate change, Global change, Global ecology, Global warming, Ozone
- Growth
- Human ecology
- RT: Population, etc.
- Overpopulation
- BT: Population, etc.
- Pollution
- Population
- NT: Birth control, Family planning, Overpopulation, Population growth
- Social transformation
- SA: Social change
- Urban ecology
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HUMAN SCALE
LAND
- Agricultural land trusts
- BT: Land trust, Land trusts
- Community land trusts
- BT: Land trusts
- SA: Land trust
- Conservation easements
- RT: Conservation land trusts
- Conservation land trusts
- BT: Land trust, Land trusts
- RT: Conservation easements
- Farmland preservation
- BT: Land preservation
- Land banks
- SA: Land bank
- Land conservation
- RT: Land preservation
- Land distribution
- Land economics
- Land ethic
- SA: Land ethics
- Land ownership
- SA: Land tenure
- Land preservation
- RT: Land conservation
- Land reform
- Land stewardship
- BT: Stewardship
- Land taxation
- Land tenure
- SA: Land ownership
- Land trust
- SA: Land trusts
- NT: Agricultural land trusts, Community land trusts, Community land trust, Conservation easements, Conservation land trusts, Regional land trusts, Urban land trusts
- Land use
- Land use planning
- Local culture
- RT: Sense of place
- Regional land trusts
- BT: Land trust, Land trusts
- Soil conservation
- RT: Soil erosion
- Soil erosion
- RT: Soil conservation
- Urban land trusts
- BT: Land trust, Land trusts
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LOCAL ECONOMICS, LOCAL CURRENCIES
- Alternative banking
- RT: Alternative financing, etc.
- Alternative currency
- SA: Local currency, etc.
- Alternative economics
- RT: Ecological economics, Environmental economics
- Alternative financing
- RT: Alternative banking,
Community investment fund, Community investment
funds, Community loan fund, Cooperative banking,
Decentralized banking, Local currency, SHARE
- Alternative money
- SA: Local currency, etc.
- Barter
- Capitalism
- Community currency
- RT: Alternative financing, etc.
- SA: Local currency, etc.
- Community development
- RT: Urban development, etc.
- Community economics
- RT: Local economy, etc.
- Community enterprise
- Community investment fund
- RT: Alternative financing, etc.
- SA: Community investment funds
- Community loan fund
- RT: Alternative financing, etc.
- Community revitalization
- RT: Urban renewal, etc.
- Cooperative banking
- RT: Alternative financing, etc.
- Corporations
- SA: Corporate, Corporation
- Cottage industry
- RT: Craft movement, Home industry SA: Cottage industries
- Craft movement
- RT: Cottage industry, Cottage industries, Home industry
- Decentralized banking
- RT: Alternative financing, etc.
- Decentralized economics
- SA: DECENTRALISM
- RT: Local economics, Regional economics
- Ecological economics
- RT: Alternative economics, etc.
- Economic justice
- Economic reform
- Economic self sufficiency
- RT: Subsistence
economy; Self sufficiency, etc. under SUSTAINABLE
AGRIGULTURE
- Economics criticism
- Economics ethics
- Environmental economics
- RT: Alternative economics, etc.
- Externalities
- Global economics
- RT: Global economy, Globalism, Globalization
- Green business
- Home industry
- RT: Cottage industry, Craft movement
- Human scale
- Import replacement
- Income distribution
- RT: Wealth distribution
- Land economics
- Land tenure
- RT: Wealth distribution
- Local banking
- RT: Local currency, Local economy
- SA: Local banks, Local bank
- Local currency
- SA: Alternative currency, Alternative money, Community currency, Private currency, etc.
- Local economics
- RT: Regional economies, etc., Local banking, Local currency, etc.
- SA: Local economy, Local economic solutions
- Microenterprise
- SA: Micro enterprise, Microenterprises, Small business, Small scale enterprise
- Political economy
- Private currency
- RT: Local currency, etc.
- Regional economics
- RT: Decentralized economics,
Local economics, Rural development
- SA: Regional economies, Regional development
- Regional development
- RT: Rural development
- SA: Regional economics, etc.
- Rural development
- RT: Regional development, Regional economics, etc.
- SHARE
- Small business
- RT: Small scale agriculture under
SUSTAINABLE AGRIGULTURE
- SA: Microenterprise, Small scale enterprise
- Small scale enterprise
- RT: Small scale agriculture under
SUSTAINABLE AGRIGULTURE
- SA: Microenterprise, Small business
- Socially responsible investing
- SA: SRI, Socially responsible investment, Socially responsible investments, Socially responsible business, Social investment
- SRI
- SA: Socially responsible investing, etc.
- Steady state economy
- Subsistence economy
- RT: Economic self sufficiency; Self sufficiency, etc. under SUSTAINABLE AGRIGULTURE
- Sustainable development
- Sustainable economics
- Urban development
- RT: Urban renewal, etc.; Community development, Community revitalization
- Urban renewal
- RT: Urban development, etc.
- SA: Urban revitalization
- Wealth distribution
- RT: Income distribution, Land tenure
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PEACE AND NONVIOLENT ACTION
- Conflict resolution
- RT: Peace
- Conscientious objectors
- RT: Peace
- SA: Conscientious resistance
- Disarmament
- RT: Peace
- Environmental activism
- Global justice
- RT: Peace
- Green movement
- SA: Green party, Green politics
- Nonviolence
- RT: Peace
- SA: Non violence
- Nonviolent resistance
- BT: Nonviolence
- RT: Peace
- Pacifism
- SA: Peace
- Peace
- RT: Conflict resolution, Conscientious objectors, Conscientious resistance, Disarmament, Global justice, Nonviolence, Nonviolent resistance, Pacifism
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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE & HOMESTEADING
- Agrarianism
- RT: Village movement
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural land trusts
- BT: Land trusts, etc. under LAND
- Alternative agriculture
- RT: Small farms, Small scale agriculture
- SA: Alternative farming, Sustainable agriculture
- NT: Biodynamic agriculture, Community supported agriculture, Organic agriculture, Organic farming, Permaculture
- Alternative farming
- SA: Alternative agriculture, etc.
- Alternative pest control
- RT: Pest management, Pesticides
- Animal husbandry
- Aquaculture
- Biodynamic agriculture
- BT: Alternative agriculture, etc.
- CSA
- SA: Community supported agriculture
- Community supported agriculture
- BT: Alternative agriculture etc.
- SA: CSA
- Compost
- SA: Composting
- Composting
- SA: Compost
- Ecovillages
- BT: Villages
- Farm preservation
- RT: Farmland preservation
- Farmland preservation
- RT: Farm preservation
- Flower gardening
- BT: Gardening
- Food self sufficiency
- BT: Self sufficiency
- Fruit cultivation
- RT: Tree crops
- SA: Fruit culture
- Fruit culture
- RT: Tree crops
- SA: Fruit cultivation
- Gardening
- NT: Flower gardening, Herb gardening, Organic gardening, Vegetable gardening
- Herb gardening
- BT: Gardening
- Homesteading
- RT: Rural life, Rural living, Self sufficiency
- Human scale
- Local culture
- Organic agriculture
- BT: Alternative agriculture etc.
- SA: Organic farming
- Organic farming
- BT: Alternative agriculture etc.
- SA: Organic agriculture
- Organic gardening
- BT: Gardening
- Permaculture
- BT: Alternative agriculture etc.
- Pest management
- RT: Alternative pest control, Pesticides
- Pesticides
- RT: Alternative pest control, Pest
management
- Rural development
- Rural life
- RT: Homesteading, Village life
- SA: Rural living
- Rural living
- RT: Homesteading, Village life
- SA: Rural life
- Self sufficiency
- RT: Homesteading; Economic self sufficiency, etc. under
LOCAL ECONOMICS
- NT: Food self sufficiency
- Small farms
- RT: Alternative agriculture etc., Homesteading
- SA: Small scale agriculture
- Small scale agriculture
- RT: Alternative agriculture etc., Homesteading
- SA: Small farms
- Soil conservation
- RT: Soil erosion
- Soil erosion
- RT: Soil conservation
- Solar greenhouse
- SA: Solar greenhouses
- Solar greenhouses
- SA: Solar greenhouse
- Sustainable agriculture
- SA: Alternative
agriculture, etc.
- Sustainable forestry
- Tree crops
- SA: Fruit cultivation, Fruit culture
- Vegetable gardening
- BT: Gardening
- Village life
- RT: Rural life, Rural living
- Village movement
- RT: Agrarianism
- Villages
- NT: Ecovillages
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WEALTH DISTRIBUTION
Economic justice
Global justice
Income distribution
Land tenure
Poverty
Social justice
Wealth distribution
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WORK AND RIGHT LIVELIHOOD
- Alternative production
- RT: Worker management
- Consumerism
- SA: Consumption
- Cooperation
- Cooperatives
- SA: Cooperative
- Employee participation
- RT: Worker management
- Human scale
- Life quality
- Lifestyle
- Microenterprise
- SA: Microenterprises, Micro enterprise
- Mondragon
- Participatory management
- RT: Worker management
- Right livelihood
- Transforming work
- SA: Workplace reform
- Voluntary simplicity
- Work
- Worker cooperatives
- Worker management
- RT: Alternative production, Employee participation, Participatory
management, Worker participation, Workplace democracy
- Worker participation
- RT: Worker management
- Workplace democracy
- RT: Worker management, Workplace reform
- SA: Transforming work
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