What is the Transition Town movement’s vision of the future? How would this vision translate into development practice and policies? From the perspective of a transition town paradigm, how would you measure development?

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What will be an ideal response?

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The Transition Town movement is a prime example of future visioning, emphasizing relocalization. Emerging in the 2000s, it is a movement, or network, by and across communities anticipating peak oil and climate change. The goal is to build social and ecological resilience into local towns and communities (and their governance) by reducing and eliminating fossil fuel dependence and rebuilding local resources via principles of permaculture. Ultimately, the Transition Town movement is a proactive approach to managing the energy- and climate-challenged future—involving mobilization of community resources in such a way as to rediscover local capacity, reduce ecological footprints, and increase resilience. And as a movement, it is about alliances across communities as opposed to a conventional development model that encourages communities and regions to compete with one another.