Bob Evans is Director of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute, Northumbria University. Marko Joas is Head of Research in the Department of Social Science and Public Administration, Abo Akademi University, Finland. Susan Sundback is a sociologist who has worked at Abo Akademi University and Bergen University, Norway. Kate Theobald is a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Cities Research Institute.
Preface
'The Level of Government Closest to the People...' Government, Governance and Local Sustainability
Meeting the Sustainability Challenge
Institutional Capacity and Social Capacity
Local Government and Civil Society
Governing for Sustainability
An Agenda for Action
Appendix A: DISCUS Fieldwork Methodology
References
Index
