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Co-operatives and climate protection: housing co-operatives in Germany
Schröder, Carolin; Walk, Heike
This chapter focuses on the role of the co-operative model in promoting environmental protection, focusing on the experience of German housing co-operatives. It offers case studies of three housing co-operatives: Spar-und Bauverein Hannover eG (Hanover); Weiberwirtschaft eG (Berlin) and Möckernkiez eG (Berlin). The chapter argues that co-operatives offer great potential for climate protection activities at the local level, because their democratic structures facilitate participation and solidarity, and should be viewed as potential partners in pursuing environmental change by political, economic, and civil society groups.
Published in: Mainstreaming co-operation: an alternative for the twenty-first century?, 10.7228/manchester/9780719099595.003.0012, Manchester University Press
