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There are many technical terms used in both sustainability and community work. This list brings them together. It also recognises the importance of vocabulary as a cornerstone of culture and of words' role in engendering cultural change.
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Glossary
Stumped by all the jargon?
The pdf file contains definitions – and re-definitions – of many words used in S&P. A list of those terms included at the time of the most recent update (November 2010) is given below.
"...one thing is predictable: the greatest change will be the change of knowledge; in its form and content; in its meaning; in its responsibility..."
Post Capitalist Society, Peter F Drucker. 1993.
Glossary Contents
Aalborg
Aarhus Convention
acid rain
Action 21
adult education
agribusiness
agroecology
aid
alienation
alternative technology
amplified change
amplified human
anaerobic digestion
Annual Monitoring Report
anthropocene
anthropocentric
anthropomorphic
anti-apathy
apple day
appropriate technology
Area Action Plan
aviation
Bhopal
billion
biocentric
biodegradable
biodiversity
bioethics
bioregion
biosphere
brownfield land
bunkers
bus corridor
campaigning
cap and dividend
capacity building
carbon intensity
carbon offsetting
carbon quotas
carrying capacity
Cartesian
Catch 22
CCS or Carbon Capture and Storage
CCS Ready
celebrity culture
ChangeUp
chemiculture
Chernobyl
China syndrome
citizens jury
city region
civic pioneer
clone town
Club of Rome
CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs.
CocaColarisation
Command Papers
command papers
communitarianism
community
community allowance
community infrastructure levy
community severance
community spaces
community work
community-led planning
complementary medicine
Comprehensive Area Assessment
Comprehensive Community Engagement Strategies
Comprehensive Spending Review
connectedness
consensus building
conservation
conspiracy of silence
conspiracy theory
consultation
Consultation Statement
contraction and convergence
conventional farming
co-operative
co-operatives
Copenhagen Consensus
co-production sector
core economy
Core Strategy
Corporate Social Responsibility
Councils for Voluntary Service
countryside
cult of the celebrity and lifestyle aspirations.
cultural resources
culture change
cycling
deep ecology
deforestation
deliberative polls
demand management
denial
development
Development Plan Document
developmental community work
diet
direct action
Disnification
displacement activity
Doha Round
double devolution
downshifting
Duty to Cooperate
Duty to Involve
Duty to Promote Democracy
Duty to Respond to Petitions
e-campaigning
eco-
Eco Management and Audit Schemes
eco schools
eco-agriculture
ecology
economic globalisation
Economic Partnership Agreements
economics
eco-system
eco-town
education for sustainable development
employment
empowerment
encultured
energy descent plans
environmental audit
environmental capacity
environmental capital
environmental deprivation
environmental footprint
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Statement
ethical consumption
eugenics
eutrophication
evidence based policy making
examination
exclusion
exponential
Extended Schools Initiative
factor four
Fairtrade
farmer-centred agriculture
finite
flood risk
focus group
food additives
food miles
food scares
food sovereignty
footprinting
free market
futurism
Gaia
Gershon
ghost town
global flip
globalisation
GPI
grandparent mortgages
green fundays
Green New Deal
Green Papers
greenfield land
greenhouse effect
greenhouse gases
happy planet index
HCFC
Highly Indebted Poor Country
hypothecation
Index of Multiple Deprivation
Inspector’s Report
integrated product policy
Integrated Regional Strategy
intensive farming
intermediate technology
International Monetary Fund
Judicial Review
Key Diagram
Kyoto Protocol
land
Landfill Communities Fund
language
lawbreakers
Leaders Forum
LETS
liberal
life cycle thinking
limits
linear change
Lisbon strategy
Local (or District) Plan
Local Action 21
Local Agenda 21
Local Area Agreements
Local Biodiversity Action Plan
Local Development Documents
Local Development Framework
Local Development Orders
Local Development Scheme
Local Planning Authority
Local Public Service Agreements
Local Transport Plan
locality working
macro-sustainability
mass balance
Materials Recycling Facility
McDonaldisation
McJob
me society
Merton Rule
meta context
Minerals and Waste Development Scheme
Minerals Local Plan
modal shift
modernism
multinational corporation
name and shame
nanny state
National Cycling Strategy
Neighbourhood Renewal Advisors
new urbanism
news
NI4
nitrogen fertiliser
Non Agricultural Market Access
obsolescence
online activism
opinion polls
organic
organisational development
ozone
Parecon
parish map
Parliamentary Bill
participation imperative
participation levels
participation methods
participatory budgeting
participatory government
partner authorities
Partners and Communities Together
partnerships
peak gas
personal development
perverse subsidies
petroleum club
place shaper
Planning Policy Guidance
Plusbus
political parties
population
precautionary principle
predatory lending
primary legislation
projection
proposal
protected sites
purchasing, investment, tourism
Quality of Life
quantitative easing
quietism
Ramsar Site
real cost accounting
real costs
real world
recycling
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation
reductionist
Regional Development Agency
Regional Planning Body
Regional Planning Guidance
Regional Spatial Strategy
Regional Trade Agreements
Regionally Significant Application
renewable energy
Renewable Energy Policy
representative democracy
resource throughput
Revenue Support Grant
right to roam
ring-fencing
road toll
Rupertainment
sector
sentience
shadow price of carbon
shared interest community
significance
Significant Major Application
slow food
Sneakerisation
social centre
social ecology
social enterprise
Special Area of Conservation
Special Protection Area
stakeholders
Statements of Community Involvement
Strategic Environment Assessment
structural inertia
Structural Reform Plans
Supplementary Planning Guidance
survey panels
sustainability appraisal
sustainability audit
sustainability goals
sustainability imperative
sustainability principles
sustainability successes
sustainable
Sustainable Community Strategy
Sustainable Retail Strategy
systemic
talking shop
tax dodging
taxation
10:10
terminality
theme group
third sector
third sector integrity
third sector survey
toxic fuels
Tradable Energy Quotas
traditional farming
traffic lights
transgenerational accountability
transport
trickle down
UK Biodiversity Action Plan
UK21
unsustainability
urban heat island
Use Classes
vocabulary
Voluntary Action
Volunteer Centre
volunteering
vulture funds
Waste Local Plan
wave surge
wealth
Wellbeing Duty
White Papers
World Court Project
World Trade Organisation
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