How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies: Hard to Make, Hard to Break

ISBN-13: 9781849714402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str.

Philip Monaghan

Opis

A taboo-shattering book, How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies sets out how visionary national and local leaders can transform unsustainable societies as they attempt to recover from an age of austerity. By eliminating the culture of dependency in a socially and environmentally progressive way, the book shows how to transcend the political and social spectrum and even unify people around a common purpose. It does this by examining how leaders can make smarter interventions within complex systems to prevent the high cost of social and environmental failure arising from our current economic model. The book explores a number of contemporary themes (e.g. green economy, sustainable urban development, banking reform, equality and democratic renewal) and draws on a wealth of global case learning (e.g. Amsterdam, Brighton, Cape Town, Madison, Matara and Toyama).

Spis treści

Part 1: Ending the Wrong Kind of Dependency Culture 1.Establishing need   1.1 Gaps in resiliency work to date? 1.2 A review of the literature   2.Tomorrow and today’s problems: making change universally desirable   2.1 Dilemmas faced by global market regulators and local urban planners 2.2 A new paradigm for tomorrow’s problems   2.3 Struggles to make sophisticated responses in a changing world?   3.A common set of values   3.1 No tinkering around the edges   3.2 Unifying beliefs   3.3 Significant behaviour or not?   Part 2. Localism Without Local Government 4.Devolving responsibility   4.1 Communities on the front line or in the firing line?   4.2 Navigating shifts in power, rights and responsibilities   5.Negotiated rights and sanctions   5.1 Return to fairness through contribution   5.2 Area-based negotiations   6.The harmonised constitution   6.1 The journey from rights to responsibilities to subsidiarity   6.2 An enabling constitution for local leadership Part 3. Just Cities 7 .Incentivised migration to compact cities   7.1 Reaffirming the need for compactness   7.2 Ensuring smart density wins   8.Urban development and the green economy   8.1 Pro-business but anti-weak governance: shedding the right kind of caution   8.2 Problem of definition   8.3 A decarbonised economy the north and south can believe in   9.Decoupling vested interests   9.1 Ending unhealthy relationships   9.2 Strength through diversity as well as devolution   Part 4. Transition From Unstable to Resilient Societies: Hard to Make, Hard to Break  10.Smarter and less frequent interventions   10.1 Resource flows   10.2 Harnessing the positive power of markets and people   10.3 Systems thinking: from information hoarding to place-based governance   11.Infused resilience: a theory of change   11.1 A refined interpretation of resilience   11.2 Embedding and maintaining empowerment   12.What you need to do next   12.1 The right type of local leadership   12.2 Over to you

O autorze

Philip Monaghan is an internationally recognised writer and strategist on economic development and environmental sustainability. He is Founder and CEO of Infrangilis