Research and Markets : Local Environmental Sustainability Provides a Blueprint for Both Local Governments and Local Communities to Work Together Effectively for a More Sustainable Future

Business Wire, August 19, 2005

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22916) has announced the addition of Local environmental sustainability to their offering.

The importance of local programmes in driving sustainable development has been enshrined in Local Agenda 21, arguably the most influential output of the 1992 Rio 'Earth' Summit. Its importance has been reiterated more recently by the Johannesburg Summit in 2002.

Local environmental sustainability sets the context for local environmental sustainability and, in particular, considers how local government can promote sustainable development by building partnerships with different groups and organisations in the local community. Using case studies, individual chapters focus on different types of regional and local initiatives, the partnerships that have made them possible, and the key issues in making them effective.

Local environmental sustainability provides a blueprint for both local governments and local communities to work together effectively for a more sustainable future.

--An important new study focusing on the links between local environmental initiatives and the provision of sustainable services

--Includes case studies showing how local government initiatives can work in the community

--Considers the relationship between local programmes and the implementation of Local Agenda 21

Contents are entitled as follows:-

Building alliances for local environmental sustainability

S Buckingham, Brunel University, UK and K Theobald, University of Northumbria, UK

Skeletal frameworks: Regional sustainable development frameworks and the issue of climate change

E Wilson, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Making the wrecker seem not all malevolent: Re-regulating the UK's china clay mining industry

P Pinch, South Bank University, UK

Local Agenda 21 and the shift to 'soft governance'

B Evans and K Theobald, University of Northumbria, UK

Combating social exclusion - focus groups, local empowerment and development: A Preston case study

M Clark, University of Central Lancashire, Uk and S Cox, Roger Tym and Partners, Manchester, UK

Retailing and sustainability: exploring connections using the example of a local town market

P Garside, A Hughes and K Lynch, Kingston University, UK

Waste minimisation strategies

S Barr, University of Exeter, UK

Trading places: geography and the role of Local Exchange Trading Schemes in local sustainable development

T.J. Aldridge and A Patterson, Brunel University, UK and J Tooke, Goldsmiths College, UK

Allotments and community gardens: a DIY approach to environmental sustainability

S Buckingham, Brunel University, UK

Local economies, trade and global sustainability

P E Perkins, York University, Canada

Inequality and community: the missing dimensions of sustainable development

A Blowers, Open University, UK

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22916