Towards Sustainable Development for Local Authorities

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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