Newly Published - Low Carbon Communities: imaginative approaches to combating climate change locally
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Edited by Michael Peters, Shane Fudge and Tim Jackson. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Community action is a vital strategy in the fight against climate change and has increasingly informed government policy, academic inquiry and grassroots action over the last decade.
This timely and engaging volume explores both the promise of community based action in tackling climate change and some of its limitations. Bringing together theoretical and practical perspectives on community action Low Carbon Communities considers the opportunities and challenges through a diverse range of models and case studies. Fresh conceptual insights are provided and new light is shed on the policy implications and practical ramifications of establishing effective community engagement in efforts to combat climate change locally.
'We are faced with the greatest challenge to public engagement since World War Two, and a new discourse of fear – not military invasion but climate change. At the same time most people cannot grasp the scale of the challenge nor what they are supposed to do about it. Good governance requires an informed citizenry who are much more than consumers and customers, but active participants in a new post-carbon politics. Low Carbon Communities helps to set out the political and cultural agenda for the first half of the twenty-first century and, ultimately, the imaginative approaches that are required now to address climate change.' – Michael Redclift, University of London, UK
Full details at Edward Elgar Publishing via the following link: http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=13593