| | Towards Sustainable Development for Local Authorities |
| | 0,93 | | MB | Approaches, Experiences and Sources |
| | 83 | | stron |
| | 1579 | | ID | European Environment Agency |
| | 2000 | | rok |
| | Contents |
| | Foreword . 5 |
| | Acknowledgements 6 |
| | Introduction 10 |
| | Purpose of the report 10 |
| | Structure and organization of material.11 |
| | PART I |
| | Local Authorities Moving Towards Sustainable Development .13 |
| | 1 Making sense of sustainable development 15 |
| | Taking the long view: sustainability in evolutionary and ecological perspective .16 |
| | The evolution of sustainability itself.20 |
| | Conflicts and controversies21 |
| | 2 Towards a positive policy context for sustainability? 29 |
| | The international context29 |
| | The European context .37 |
| | 3 Responding to a new paradigm: the challenge for local authorities 45 |
| | Sustainable cities and Sustainable communities .45 |
| | Local authorities: the changing governance context.48 |
| | Local authorities in Europe: a variegated landscape 57 |
| | Responding to the challenges 62 |
| | 4 Practising sustainability: challenges and innovations. 67 |
| | Internal challenges and the need for a new professionalism.67 |
| | Democratising local government: achieving the ‘impossible’ .68 |
| | Ecological footprinting: reconnecting the effects of environmental degradation with the causes71 |
| | Urban agriculture: not only food for thought, but also action 74 |
| | Putting it all together. .76 |
| | Conclusion .77 |
| | Annex 1: Comparing competing paradigms 78 |