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Copenhagen Climate Summit widens rift between local and global approaches to climate change

Posted By Halina Ward on 22nd December, 2009

cop15_logo_imgI’m back in London after a week in Copenhagen at various climate events. Almost everything climate-related that happened in and around Copenhagen over the past two weeks offers rich pickings for reflection on the changing relationship between democracy and climate…

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Sustainable Communities Act 2007: business as usual or unusual government?

Posted By Halina Ward on 9th October, 2009

TrewooncommunityconsultationIt’s not very likely that business as usual within the democratic process will deliver sustainable development. So there are great hopes pinned on the English and Welsh Sustainable Communities Act 2007, which entered into force in October 2007.

The Sustainable Communities…

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Community self-organisation, democracy and sustainable development

Posted By Halina Ward on 2nd September, 2009

The interface between local citizen-led action and representative democracy is right at the cutting edge of sustainable development.

There has already been a lot of work on community empowerment in relation to existing processes of local government (this is ‘inside-out’ thinking; mostly…

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