Quality of Life and Public Management: Redefining Development in the Local Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415628808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str.

John Whitelegg

Opis

This text explores the possibility for a significant improvement in quality of life for all population groups and sub-groups in the UK. Strongly evidence-based, it draws on case study data and comparisons into local and central government structure, funding, policy, cultures and outcomes from a number of EU countries.

Spis treści

Part 1:  What is Best Practice and how do we define Excellence  1. A Tale of 3 Cities and Two Rural Areas (Freiburg, Roskilde, Basel, rural North Rhine Westphalia and rural Switzerland)  2. Defining Excellence  Part 2:  The Devil is in the Detail  3. Children  4. Older People  5. Built Environment  6. Air Quality  7. Renewable Energy  8. Peak Oil, Climate Change and Resilience  9. City-City Comparisons  Part 3:  Good ideas are great but how do we make things happen?  10. What do they do that we don’t do: Budgets, Councillors and the Power to Act  11. How can we capture the Excellence Virus and release it in the UK?  12. Conclusions

O autorze

John Whitelegg is Professor of Sustainable Development at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York. He worked at Lancaster University for 20 years as a teacher, researcher and activist on transport and the environment. He was a city councillor for 8 years and from 2008 to 2010 was deputy chair of the Local Government Association Regeneration and Transport Board. He has written 9 books and over 80 papers and chapters in books on transport and environment topics.