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Local Environmental Sustainability
Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Feb 2003, Pages: 264
Building alliances for local environmental sustainability
S Buckingham, Brunel University, UK and K Theobald, University of Northumbria, UK
- The context for local environmental sustainability
- Local Government
- The local state and local civil society: partnerships for environmental sustainability
- Local capacity building
- Structure of the book
Skeletal frameworks: Regional sustainable development frameworks and the issue of climate change
E Wilson, Oxford Brookes University, UK
- Interpretation of sustainable development
- Role of regions
- Climate change
- Climate change as a regional issue
- Purpose of RSDF's
- Partnership in RSDF preparation
- Treatment of climate change in RSDF's
- Skeletal frameworks
- Conclusion
Making the wrecker seem not all malevolent: Re-regulating the UK's china clay mining industry
P Pinch, South Bank University, UK
- The UK's planning regime for minerals development
- Re-regulating rural environments
- Re-regulating the UK's china clay industry
- Conclusion
Local Agenda 21 and the shift to 'soft governance'
B Evans and K Theobald, University of Northumbria, UK
- The evolution of LA21 in Europe
- Participation and civic engagement in local sustainable development policymaking
- Evaluating LA21: the nature and level of civil society engagement
- LASALA and 'soft governance'
- LA21, the 'integration of interests' and the move to 'soft governance'
- References
Combating social exclusion - focus groups, local empowerment and development: A Preston case study
M Clark, University of Central Lancashire, Uk and S Cox, Roger Tym and Partners, Manchester, UK
- Defining social exclusion
- Policy approaches to address social exclusion
- The Preston study
- Conclusions on the use of focus groups
- Further case study examples of the use of focus groups in policymaking
- Conclusions and wider questions
Retailing and sustainability: exploring connections using the example of a local town market
P Garside, A Hughes and K Lynch, Kingston University, UK
- Skewed meanings: neglecting sustainability
- Towards a new sustainable theory of consumption
- New approaches to old forms of retailing: the sustainable potential of street markets
- Kingston market – A sustainable market culture? Research themes: possibilities of a research agenda applying the working matrix
- Conclusion
Waste minimisation strategies
S Barr, University of Exeter, UK
- Municipal waste in England and Wales
- Individuals and sustainable waste management
- The importance of individuals: waste management in Exeter
- Policy recommendations
- Conclusion
Trading places: geography and the role of Local Exchange Trading Schemes in local sustainable development
T.J. Aldridge and A Patterson, Brunel University, UK and J Tooke, Goldsmiths College, UK
- 'Cranes, favours, harmonies and thanks': using LETS currencies
- LETS development in the UK
- LETS and sustainable development
- The case studies: Stroud and Hounslow LETS
- Case study 1: Stroud LETS
- Case study 2:– Hounslow LETS
- Conclusions
Allotments and community gardens: a DIY approach to environmental sustainability
S Buckingham, Brunel University, UK
- Benefits of allotments and community gardens
- Conclusions
Local economies, trade and global sustainability
P E Perkins, York University, Canada
- Economics and 'local economies'
- Trade and community
- Self-limiting trade: theory
- Self-limiting trade: practice
- Toronto's local economy
- The potential of local economies
- Conclusions
Inequality and community: the missing dimensions of sustainable development
A Blowers, Open University, UK
- The discourse of sustainable development
- Political modernisation and the environment
- The environmental dimension of modernisation
- Alternative approaches
- Inequality and community in nuclear communities
- Environmental change – a new role for planning
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