How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies: Hard to Make, Hard to Break Book

Part 1: Ending the Wrong Kind of Dependency Culture 1.Establishing need 1.1 Gaps in resiliency work to date? 1.2 A review of the literature 2.Tomorrow and today’s problems: making change universally desirable 2.1 Dilemmas faced by global market regulators and local urban planners 2.2 A new paradigm for tomorrow’s problems 2.3 Struggles to make sophisticated responses in a changing world? 3.A common set of values 3.1 No tinkering around the edges 3.2 Unifying beliefs 3.3 Significant behaviour or not? Part 2. Localism Without Local Government 4.Devolving responsibility 4.1 Communities on the front line or in the firing line? 4.2 Navigating shifts in power, rights and responsibilities 5.Negotiated rights and sanctions 5.1 Return to fairness through contribution 5.2 Area-based negotiations 6.The harmonised constitution 6.1 The journey from rights to responsibilities to subsidiarity 6.2 An enabling constitution for local leadership Part 3. Just Cities 7 .Incentivised migration to compact cities 7.1 Reaffirming the need for compactness 7.2 Ensuring smart density wins 8.Urban development and the green economy 8.1 Pro-business but anti-weak governance: shedding the right kind of caution 8.2 Problem of definition 8.3 A decarbonised economy the north and south can believe in 9.Decoupling vested interests 9.1 Ending unhealthy relationships 9.2 Strength through diversity as well as devolution Part 4. Transition From Unstable to Resilient Societies: Hard to Make, Hard to Break 10.Smarter and less frequent interventions 10.1 Resource flows 10.2 Harnessing the positive power of markets and people 10.3 Systems thinking: from information hoarding to place-based governance 11.Infused resilience: a theory of change 11.1 A refined interpretation of resilience 11.2 Embedding and maintaining empowerment 12.What you need to do next 12.1 The right type of local leadership 12.2 Over to you