Philip Monaghan

How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies

Hard to Make, Hard to Break

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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).

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First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781849714402
• ISBN-10: 1849714401
• Artikelnr.: 33946980

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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