SustainabilityLINKS

Linking People, Sustainability & Participation

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 The Democratic Importance of Local Links

The main aim of this website is to reconcile sustainability and participation concerns in the ways envisaged and encouraged by the United Nations’ Agenda 21.

Although the LocalLINKS pages are of particular relevance to work being undertaken in the Coventry and Warwickshire sub region, they’ll also be of importance and interest to people wishing to raise the profile of our global unsustainability in local participation processes elsewhere.  The pages hyperlinked here outline some catchment successes and show just how key issues can be factored into local decision-making.  

This area of the site reflects the four main areas - Networking, Participation, Topical & Reference - of the main site but specifically relates to the Coventry & Warwickshire area.

 

LOCAL NETWORKING

 



 A forum for raising and discussing local S&P issues.  Join in the debate now!

  Pease email your full contact details for inclusion in this Coventry and Warwickshire who’s who, does  what and where.

 

  Send in your own events calendar for inclusion.



  An opportunity to track down S&P information resources, speakers, services and facilities, volunteers,  old friends,  new  friends, to seek or offer support.   

 

  Your opportunity to develop greater sustainability input into local decision making.

 

  Tell other people what you’re doing.  Please send LINKS a side of A4 (or electronic equivalent) about  your organisation, project,  etc, and it will be posted here.

 

LOCAL TOPICAL

 



The Report summarises local information from a range of sources, including the seven Coventry and Warwickshire local authorities and LSPs, from those third sector representatives already involved in Sustainable Community Strategy decision making

LOCAL PARTICIPATION

 

To enable people to work with and influence local Strategy processes this page will include details of LSP post holders, theme group contacts, process managers and our third sector representatives.  

To facilitate effective lobbying, and minimise any inconvenience caused those no longer involved, LINKS will update this page whenever informed of personnel changes by process management.

How well are Coventry and Warwickshire Strategy participation processes responding to local S&P input?  

To enable the sub-region to monitor and log LSP performance or responses to requests under the Freedom of Information Act and Environmental information Regulations please send LINKS details of any approaches you make.

The information on this page was collated during 2005; Coventry and Warwickshire LSPs and Councils are being approached for updates to enable a current reappraisal.

 

This is a record of the LSP approaches LINKS has made on S&P concerns such as climate change, sustainability mission statements, the Local Sustainable Communities Bill, Fairtrade and GATS.  

It’s also the page that records the measurable outcomes of S&P work, and addresses the traditional difficulty we have in assessing the effort-effectiveness of sustainability’s educational, awareness-raising and lobbying programmes.

A key feature of this page – and one of interest to people working on S&P everywhere – are the details it gives about how grassroots lobbying can  influence decision-making processes.

 

Charged with the task of mainstreaming sustainability concerns, are Coventry and Warwickshire LSPs rising to the challenges of the 21st century?



Community Strategies, and the community participation processes established to produce them, are supposed to address difficult unsustainability issues.  Here an S&P perspective will be brought to Coventry and Warwickshire Strategies in order to discover how far they’re succeeding.



How are the Councils for Coventry, Warwickshire, Rugby, Stratford, North Warwickshire, Warwick, Nuneaton and Bedworth responding to local S&P organisations’ concerns?   This page will provide an ongoing record.

  

Local Authorities are the LSPs’ lead organisations and this page will look at our seven Councils’ own S&P related initiatives.

 

This page will track Coventry and Warwickshire planning proposals, but first LINKS requires a page editor.  Please get in touch if you’d like to take this on!

 

LOCAL REFERENCE  

 



A handy reference tool for when you’re looking at some of the other pages.

  

A table summarising the results of LSP lobbying in the sub-region, and the S&P initiatives taken by the seven Partnerships and Councils.

The information was collated at the end of 2006; Coventry and Warwickshire LSPs and Councils are being approached for updates – a more recent assessment will be made in due course.

 

  An A-Z directory listing where you can locate S&P provisions and services across the catchment



Agenda 21 recognised the importance of education in the shift to less unsustainable ways of thinking and doing.  How are Coventry and Warwickshire’s statutory, voluntary and market sector education providers responding?



Readers’ help needed to compile a history of Coventry and Warwickshire’s local sustainability movement.

Please contact us with any information or feed back:

E-mail - info@sustainabiltylinks.org.uk

Post - SustainabiltyLINKS, 3 Park Road, Bedworth CV12 8LH