Sustainability, local democracy and the future: the swedish model /
ed by Uno Sbedin
- Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Pub, 2002.
- ix,231p.
Preface. 1. Sustainability Issues at a Local Level Interplaying with the Global World - Political and Identity Topics. -- 2. Critical Notes on Sustainability and Democracy. -- 3. Sustainability as a Centrally-Induced Swedish Local Discourse. -- 4. An Introduction to OEstergoetland, the Case Region. Perceptions of Environmental Issues in Linkoeping and Atvidaberg. -- 5. Four Pillars Forming the Identity of Linkoeping. -- 6. Linkoeping and Local Agenda 21: Sustainability, Technocracy or Democracy? -- 7. Atvidaberg and Identity Shifts: Breaking Up is Hard. -- 8. Local Democracy Facing Global Challenge: Analysis and Conclusions. Contributors List. Index.
Deals with the challenges posed by the transformation of society towards much-needed sustainability. This book deals with the local features of this change, but seen in a global context. It examines two cases - the municipalities of Linkoping and A...tvidaberg - both Swedish, to expose alternative types of choices for local communities involved