1st Edition
Quality of Life and Public Management Redefining Development in the Local Environment
Part 1: What is Best Practice and how do we define Excellence 1. A Tale of 3 Cities and Two Rural Areas (Freiburg, Roskilde, Basel, rural North Rhine Westphalia and rural Switzerland) 2. Defining Excellence Part 2: The Devil is in the Detail 3. Children 4. Older People 5. Built Environment 6. Air Quality 7. Renewable Energy 8. Peak Oil, Climate Change and Resilience 9. City-City Comparisons Part 3: Good ideas are great but how do we make things happen? 10. What do they do that we don’t do: Budgets, Councillors and the Power to Act 11. How can we capture the Excellence Virus and release it in the UK? 12. Conclusions
Biography
John Whitelegg is Professor of Sustainable Development at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York. He worked at Lancaster University for 20 years as a teacher, researcher and activist on transport and the environment. He was a city councillor for 8 years and from 2008 to 2010 was deputy chair of the Local Government Association Regeneration and Transport Board. He has written 9 books and over 80 papers and chapters in books on transport and environment topics.
