Page Aim
This feature aims to list and summarise any books that can bring S&P related perspectives into local decision making processes.
Outline Contents
The Reading List file contains almost 200 books, arranged according to established Sustainable Community Strategy themes. This is to help communities monitor SCS processes and aid other participation in local decision making. See also page 11’s Model Sustainable Community Strategy.
SCS
themes
Sustainable Community Strategies consider these themes, although not all of them are necessarily divided along the same lines:
01 Unsustainability. How SCSs, LSPs, Citizen’s Panels and other participation processes can address global unsustainability at the local level.
02 Participation. How communities can use participation opportunities to influence decision making.
03 Community. SCS Community topics including social inclusion, young and old, ethnic and cultural diversity, narrowing the gap, VCO involvement.
04 Community Safety. Crime and disorder.
05 Education. Including lifelong learning, student led initiatives, ESD.
06 Health. Books included under this heading bring wellbeing and complementary medicine information to the health remit.
07 Economics. SCS Economics topics can include the social economy, employment, town centres, ethical consumerism, SCP.
08 Environment. Books included here address natural environment concerns such as; access to green space, habitat and species biodiversity, pollution, maintaining and increasing natural features, urban trees. Also included are titles about various built environment concerns including housing, planning and development, infrastructure, sprawl.
09 Transport. Where decision makers can go for information about road calming, buses, trains, passenger information giving, integrated transport initiatives, cycling, pedestrian issues, freight, air travel, parking, car sharing and how communities pay for the costs arising from private car usage.
10 Waste. Books about waste, recycling: disposal facilities and provisions, packaging.
11 Climate Change and Energy. Various books about energy conservation, renewable sources, global impacts on local environment, economy and communities, transition and energy descent, renewables, etc.
Document Store
Reading
List
The pdf file contains brief reviews of many publications on a wide range of concerns that can help inform and support LSPs, VCOs and other communities of interest involved in S&P work.
“Governments are either refusing to face the relevant facts, or are briefing their scientists in such a way that their seriousness is played down”.
A Blueprint for Survival - The Ecologist, 1972.
Topic Updates
The Freedom Formula
Subtitled How to Free Yourself From Debt and Reclaim Your Life, this is a timely guide setting personal debt and lifestyle choices against a background of recession and terminal economics. Despite the gravitas of its subject matter the publication is extremely reader friendly, answering such basic everyday questions as:
How
can we cope in times of economic downturn?
Why
do we have less and less time to do the
things we enjoy?
Why
do we never get better off even though we’re
working harder?
With levels of personal insolvency and attendant hardships continuing to increase nationwide, The Freedom Formula gives information and insights that is of use to affected individuals and advice professionals alike. By Carl Hill this booklet retails at £4.99.
Availalble from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freedom-Formula-Carl-Hill/dp/144571678X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1304762262&sr=8-1
or as download:
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/the-freedom-formula/6567980
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Requiem for a Species – Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change, by Clive Hamilton. The analysis considers the implications of COP15’s failure and assesses the psychology of human denial and the institutionalisation of self destruction.
Recent
additions to the reading list file
Which health theme group members will be learning of the links between ill health and diet explored in What’s in This Stuff?
Partners working on either climate change or the natural environment will be able to attend future meetings well armed with statistics after reading Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo.
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