Author(s): Michael Peters, Shane Fudge, Tim Jackson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 304
Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Contributors......Page 8
Preface: The Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE)......Page 13
Foreword......Page 14
Introduction......Page 19
PART I Facilitating the low carbon transition: theoretical and intellectual understandings of communities and social change......Page 29
1. Community engagement and social organization: introducing concepts, policy and practical applications......Page 31
2. Sustainable communities: neo-tribalism between modern lifestyles and social change......Page 51
3. The social dimensions of behaviour change: an overview of community-based interventions to encourage pro-environmental behaviours......Page 65
PART II Challenges for local level climate change policy and alternative models for low carbon community governance......Page 77
4. Transforming the nation-state through environmentalism: political influences on a multi-level governance framework in the UK......Page 79
5. The role of local authorities in galvanizing action to tackle climate change: a practitioner’s perspective......Page 93
6. Mobilizing sustainability: partnership working between a pro-cycling NGO and local government in London......Page 107
7. Low carbon communities and the currencies of change......Page 126
8. Decarbonizing local economies: a new low carbon, high well-being model of local economic development......Page 141
PART III Models of sustainable and low carbon community activities......Page 155
9. The Community Carbon Reduction Programme......Page 157
10. Global Action Plan’s EcoTeams programme......Page 175
11. Woking Borough Council: working towards a low carbon community......Page 196
12. Intentional community carbon reduction and climate change action: from ecovillages to transition towns......Page 215
13. Energy Conscious Households in Action (ECHO Action)......Page 234
14. The HadLOW CARBON Community: behavioural evolution in the face of climate change......Page 255
15. Empowering farmers to react and to act: from an anti-golf course pressure group to a community-based farmers’ cooperative......Page 270
Epilogue: retrofitting buildings viewed as a civil engineering project – just do it......Page 284
Index......Page 289
