| Description |
1 online resource (161 pages) |
| Contents |
HOW LOCAL RESILIENCE CREATES SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES Hard to Make, Hard to Break; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; List of case interviews and resilience learning; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: why the system is toxic: easy to make, easy to break; PART ONE Ending the wrong type of dependency culture; 1 Establishing need; Gaps in resiliency work to date?; A review of the literature; 2 Tomorrow and today's problems: making change universally desirable; Dilemmas faced by global market regulators and local urban planners |
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A new paradigm for tomorrow's problemsStruggles to make sophisticated responses in a changing world?; 3 A common set of values; No tinkering around the edges; Unifying beliefs; Significant behaviour or not?; PART TWO Localism without government; 4 Devolving responsibility; Communities on the front line or in the firing line?; Navigating shifts in power, rights and responsibilities; 5 Negotiated rights and sanctions; Return to fairness through contribution; Area-based negotiations; 6 The harmonised constitution; The journey from rights to responsibilities to subsidiarity |
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An enabling constitution for local leadershipPART THREE Just cities; 7 Incentivised migration to compact cities; Reaffirming the need for compactness; Ensuring smart density wins; 8 Urban development and the green economy; Problem of definition; A decarbonised economy the North and South can believe in; 9 Decoupling vested interests; Ending unhealthy relationships; Strength through diversity as well as devolution; PART FOUR Transition from unstable to resilient societies: hard to make, hard to break; 10 Smarter and less frequent interventions; Resource flows |
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Harnessing the positive power of markets and peopleSystems thinking: from information hoarding to place-based governance; 11 Infused resilience: a theory of change; A refined interpretation of resilience; Embedding and maintaining empowerment; 12 What you need to do next; The right type of local leadership; Appendix 1 Author's biography; Appendix 2 Other helpful sources of learning; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203126509 |
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0203126505 |
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