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Author Monaghan, Philip (Philip Edmund)

Title How local resilience creates sustainable societies : hard to make, hard to break / Philip Monaghan
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012

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Description xvii, 141 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents pt. ONE Ending the wrong type of dependency culture -- 1.Establishing need -- Gaps in resiliency work to date? -- A review of the literature -- 2.Tomorrow and today's problems: making change universally desirable -- Dilemmas faced by global market regulators and local urban planners -- A new paradigm for tomorrow's problems -- Struggles to make sophisticated responses in a changing world? -- 3.A common set of values -- No tinkering around the edges -- Unifying beliefs -- Significant behaviour or not? -- pt. TWO Localism without government -- 4.Devolving responsibility -- Communities on the front line or in the firing line? -- Navigating shifts in power, rights and responsibilities -- 5.Negotiated rights and sanctions -- Return to fairness through contribution -- Area-based negotiations -- 6.The harmonised constitution -- The journey from rights to responsibilities to subsidiarity -- An enabling constitution for local leadership --
pt. THREE Just cities -- 7.Incentivised migration to compact cities -- Reaffirming the need for compactness -- Ensuring smart density wins -- 8.Urban development and the green economy -- Problem of definition -- A decarbonised economy the North and South can believe in -- 9.Decoupling vested interests -- Ending unhealthy relationships -- Strength through diversity as well as devolution -- pt. FOUR Transition from unstable to resilient societies: hard to make, hard to break -- 10.Smarter and less frequent interventions -- Resource flows -- Harnessing the positive power of markets and people -- Systems thinking: from information hoarding to place-based governance -- 11.Infused resilience: a theory of change -- A refined interpretation of resilience -- Embedding and maintaining empowerment -- 12.What you need to do next -- The right type of local leadership
Notes "Earthscan from Routledge"--P. [4] of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject City planning -- Environmental aspects.
Community development -- Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Urban economics -- Environmental aspects.
LC no. 2011037355
ISBN 0203126505
1849714401
184971441X
9780203126509
9781849714402
9781849714419