Socially-Inclusive Development and Value Creation: How a Composting Project in Galicia (Spain) ‘Hit the Rocks’

摘要: This paper introduces the concept of commoning in circular economies, and explores how commons reproduce over time. The starting point is that can have an important role fostering economies sustainable socially-inclusive development. By commoning, we refer to local stakeholders working collectively preserve or restore their natural resource base generate benefits are locally shared. Through analysis a specific case group commoners’ associations Galicia (Spain), describes discusses development, ultimate unravelling, innovative decentralized waste management project convert biomass from monte (often-neglected upland green spaces, largely consisting brush trees) into compost. In order make this composting economically viable possibility collecting processing urban was also explored. While project’s application principles economy had potential bring locally-shared economic ecological benefits, foster territorial prosperity resilience, it ultimately frustrated by questions scale, administrative regulatory barriers, competing conflicting land-use claims financial cutbacks public sector.