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

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).

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 todays problems: making change universally desirable   2.1 Dilemmas faced by global market regulators and local urban planners 2.2 A new paradigm for tomorrows 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 througl3.