ABSTRACT
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).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |26 pages
Ending the wrong type of dependency culture
part |28 pages
Localism without government
chapter |7 pages
Devolving Responsibility
chapter |9 pages
Negotiated Rights And Sanctions
chapter |10 pages
The Harmonised Constitution
part |36 pages
Just cities
chapter |9 pages
Incentivised Migration To Compact Cities
chapter |14 pages
Urban Development And The Green Economy
chapter |11 pages
Decoupling Vested Interests
part |25 pages
Transition from unstable to resilient societies: hard to make, hard to break