How to build self-sufficient communities through processes of social transformations: the innovative contributions of the informal sector and the micro-local approach to socio economic changes on a neighborhood scale

The aim of this research is to analyze the innovative potentialities about the informal economy about resilience oriented strategies. The reasons of the resiliency needs are strictly connected with the changes of the economic structure and the productive strategies determined by the global integration process. Into the advanced countries these changes determined a switch from production of goods to the production of services, changing the labor supply in terms of skills and education, this created a general decrease of income into middle and low classes. The consequence is been the developing of alternative forms of informal and community-based economies. The informal economy in advanced countries has been considered a marginal factor till the big recession, after of that, the scientific literature started to treat the argument under another perspective. Analyzing this phenomenon, it‟s possible to know what are the necessary changes to adopt into the socioeconomic structure and the importance of socio-economic resilience for future big crisis prevention. The research analyzing the problems at global scale, arriving to the micro-local scale; the neighborhood scale. This dimension is interesting to know the socio-economic factors on which to intervene to trigger a process of local resilience.