Description - How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies by Philip Monaghan
All over the world our cities, towns and communities are failing, or at the tipping point of doing so, with but a few exceptions. This is seen across the developed and developing world alike ranging from retirement age protests in France to water food riots in Mozambique. The root of the problem is a toxic 'dependency culture', characterised by unjust and resource-depleting patterns of unsustainable consumption. What is needed is a dramatic new way of thinking and doing to make unstable societies resilient to future shocks -- an ageing population, water scarcity, obesity and peak oil. A taboo-shattering book, Local Resilience 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 Tomaya). Local Resilience is the sequel to the acclaimed book Sustainability in Austerity, which has been endorsed by amongst others the UN and the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures.
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