Low Carbon Communities: Imaginative Approaches to Combating Climate Change Locally

Contents: Preface: The Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE) Foreword Ian Christie Introduction PART I: FACILITATING THE LOW CARBON TRANSITION: THEORETICAL AND INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1. Community Engagement and Social Organization: Introducing Concepts, Policy and Practical Applications Michael Peters 2. Sustainable Communities: Neo-Tribalism between Modern Lifestyles and Social Change David Evans 3. The Social Dimensions of Behaviour Change: An Overview of Community-based Interventions to Encourage Pro-environmental Behaviours Wokje Abrahamse PART II: CHALLENGES FOR LOCAL LEVEL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR LOW CARBON COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE 4. Transforming the Nation-state through Environmentalism: Political Influences on a Multi-level Governance Framework in the UK Shane Fudge 5. The Role of Local Authorities in Galvanizing Action to Tackle Climate Change: A Practitioner's Perspective Simon Roberts 6. Mobilizing Sustainability: Partnership Working between a Pro-cycling NGO and Local Government in London Justin Spinney 7. Low Carbon Communities and the Currencies of Change Gill Seyfang 8. Decarbonizing Local Economies: A New Low Carbon, High Well-being Model of Local Economic Development Elizabeth Cox and Victoria Johnson PART III: MODELS OF SUSTAINABLE AND LOW CARBON COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES 9. The Community Carbon Reduction Programme Simon Gerrard 10. Global Action Plan's EcoTeams Programme Scott Davidson 11. Woking Borough Council: Working Towards a Low Carbon Community Lara Curran 12. Intentional Community Carbon Reduction and Climate Change Action: From Ecovillages to Transition Towns Joshua Lockyer 13. Energy Conscious Households in Action (ECHO Action) Elliot Bushay 14. The HadLOW CARBON Community: Behavioural Evolution in the Face of Climate Change Howard Lee and Julie Taylor 15. Empowering Farmers to React and to Act: From an Anti-golf Course Pressure Group to a Community-based Farmers' Cooperative Mario Cardona Epilogue: Retrofitting Buildings Viewed as a Civil Engineering Project - Just Do It Michael Kelly Index

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