TY - BOOK TI - Sustainability, local democracy and the future: : the swedish model SN - 9781402009051 U1 - 338.948507 PY - 2002/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Kluwer Academic Pub KW - Sustainable development-Sweden. 2 Environmental policy-S N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -