Beyond Local Agenda 21: The Search For The Implementation Of Sustainability At The Local Level
Journal Title: Journal of Tourism and Services - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper discusses how principles of sustainability have previously been assimilated in policy development and policy delivery within three UK local authorities. The paper provides insights from a small-scale research project which through the application of a case study research strategy examined the role not only of LA21 Officers, but a range of local authority officers, politicians and community representatives engaged in policy development for sustainability. This paper explores methodological observations on the application of ‘bottom-up models’ of policy analysis used to evaluate the emergence of community based policy development, and local implementation structures which articulate community visions of sustainability at a local level. The ideas for the paper were initially written in 2003 and since then local sustainability has been subsumed into local authority corporatist policy agendas driven by national government directives. This update on the paper notes that whilst sustainability is now a mandatory component of Local Strategic Partnership and Community Strategies, arguably an opportunity has been lost to solidify community aspirations for the future dynamic of community articulated sustainability, supported by local authority LA21 policy frameworks. This paper considers scenarios for methodologies which fully capture current community perspectives of the slippery concept of sustainability. It also considers how to ‘capture’ community actors/voices and their interface with local authority actors in what was previously viewed as a shared vision in local sustainability. These considerations on the search for new methodologies, position contemporary discourses in sustainability under the ‘shadow’ of socalled Big Society.
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Nigel. D. Morpeth
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