Globalism, Localism, and Identity: Fresh Perspectives on the Transition to SustainabilityTimothy O'Riordan Earthscan Publications, 2001 - 248 páginas Global economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere. However, their influence is shaped by local communities' interpretation of these forces and responses to them. Social identities provide a guide; they are the product of history, culture, economy, patterns of governance and degree of community cohesion. How the global and the local connect and reconfigure at various scales and through different cultures is explained in this forward-looking volume. The book's thesis, namely that localism is the crucial complement to globalism, is supported by a range of European case studies. Local responses to globalizing forces depend on the nature of the interlinkages in governance from international structures, through multilateral organizations to nation states, regions and localities, as these are mediated through social-local identity. The contributors draw on numerous themes in examining the interaction between the global and the local, such as decay and revitalization, local identity and empowerment, opportunism through sustainability and governance for the transition. This is a pioneering publication utilizing an innovative person-centred methodology. It makes an original and important contribution to the study of contemporary societies and is aimed at anyone interested in the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental implications of any move towards sustainability. |
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... environment and sustainable development Discourses on the global environment reflect the theories of globalization set out above in the way they analyse the causes and solutions to envir- onmental degradation . As Milton ( 1996 ) points ...
... environment and sustainable development Discourses on the global environment reflect the theories of globalization set out above in the way they analyse the causes and solutions to envir- onmental degradation . As Milton ( 1996 ) points ...
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... environmental issues . In Linköping 74 per cent of the residents stated that they had changed their behaviour in order to influence the environment in a positive way , which is less than in Åtvidaberg , where 77.7 per cent of the ...
... environmental issues . In Linköping 74 per cent of the residents stated that they had changed their behaviour in order to influence the environment in a positive way , which is less than in Åtvidaberg , where 77.7 per cent of the ...
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... Environment and Sustainable Development ( NCSD ) was created as an independent consultative organ operating close to the ministry of the environment.3 The national government , through the ministry of the environment , and environmental ...
... Environment and Sustainable Development ( NCSD ) was created as an independent consultative organ operating close to the ministry of the environment.3 The national government , through the ministry of the environment , and environmental ...
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Globalization and localization | 25 |
Multilevel governance for the sustainability transition | 43 |
Sociallocal identities | 61 |
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