Volume 4  Number 3  October 1999

GUEST EDITORIAL
Polluters, Victims, Citizens, Consumers, Obstacles, Outsiders and Experts Gordon Walker 253

ARTICLES
Overcoming the 'value-Action Gap' in Environmental Policy: tensions between national policy and local experience James Blake 257

Clearing the Smog? Public responses to air-quality information
Karen Bickerstaff & Gordon Walker 279

Where Do We Go from Here? Environmental focus groups and planning policy formation Anna R. Davies 295

'Think Globally, Act Locally'? Climate change and public participation in Manchester and Frankfurt ric Darier & Ralf Schle 317

Contested and Polluted Terrain Gene Desfor & Roger Keil 331

Environmental Space and Barriers to Local Sustainability: evidence from Edinburgh, Scotland Daniel Mittler 353

VIEWPOINT
Towards a Sustainable Future: promoting Nepal Capacity 21 initiatives for sustainable development Hum Bahadur Gurung 367

Opposition to Environmental Policies: contaminated land in Britain
Raymond Smith 377

BOOK REVIEWS 385

Mark Roseland with Maureen Cureton & Heather Wornell Toward Sustainable Communities: resources for citizens and their governments (reviewed by Stephen Bocking)/C. Erdmunger & S. Schreckenberger First Mover Advantage by Eco-efficiency: local incentives for environment and employment (reviewed by David Gibbs)/Mary Macdonald Agendas for Sustainability: environment and development into the twenty-first century (reviewed by Susie Ohlenschlager)/Asoka Bandarage Women, Population and Global Crisis: a political-economic analysis (reviewed by Darlene E. Clover)/David Cooper & Joy Palmer (Eds) Spirit of the Environment: religion, value, and environmental concern (reviewed by Timothy Boston)/Hans Aage (Ed.) Environmental Transition in Nordic and Baltic Countries (reviewed by Peder Hjorth)/Simon Bell & Stephen Morse Sustainability Indicators: measuring the immeasurable (reviewed by Barry Solomon)/Erik Verhoef The Economics of Road Transport Regulation (reviewed by Julian Hine)/Julie Stauffer The Water Crisis (reviewed by Iris Turner)

Index, Volume 4, 1999

Volume 4  Number 2  June 1999

EDITORIAL
What Gets Counted, Counts? Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 109

ARTICLES
The Appraisal of Sustainability: some problems and possible
responses Andrew Stirling111

Useful Indicators of Urban Sustainability: some methodological issues Timothy J. Foxon, Matthew Leach, David Butler, Joanna Dawes, David Hutchinson,
Peter Pearson & David Rose 137

Indicators for Change: taking a lead Michael Crilly, Adam Mannis
& Karen Morrow 151

Can City QOL Indicators be Objective and Relevant? towards a
participatory tool for sustaining urban development Josef Leitmann 169

Local Environmental Monitoring in Sweden: the need for a new
strategy? Nils Brandt, Fredrik Burstrm & Bjorn Frostell 181

Social Learning and Sustainable Communities: an interim assessment
of research into sustainable communities projects in the UK
Joe Smith, James Blake, Robin Grove-White, Elham Kashefi, Sarah Madden &
Sue Percy 195

Local Sustainability Programmes in Comparative Perspective: Canada
and the USA Ernest J. Yanarella 209

VIEWPOINT
'Corporate Drivers': the key to environmental management success
Helmut Lusser & Nigel Riglar 225

BOOK REVIEWS 231
Philip Lowe, Judy Clark, Susanne Seymour & Neil Ward Moralizing the Environment: countryside change, farming and pollution (reviewed by Michael Winter)/Derek Osborn & Tom Bigg Earth Summit II: outcomes and analysis (reviewed by Doug Wilson)/Fikret Berkes & Carl Folke (Eds) Linking Social and Ecological Systems, Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience (reviewed by Mairi Jay)/Robert Elliot Faking Nature, the ethics of environmental restoration (reviewed by Richard Scott)/Bruce Braun & Noel Castree (Eds) Remaking Reality: nature at the millennium (reviewed by Alx Dark)/Penina Migdal Glazer & Myron Peretz Glazer The Environmental Crusaders: confronting disaster and mobilizing community (reviewed by Martin S. Kenzer)/Eeva K. Berglund Knowing Nature, Knowing Science: an ethnography of local environmental activism (reviewed by Naomi T. Krogman)/Jan-Olaf Willums et al., The Sustainable Business Challenge: a briefing for tomorrow's business leaders (reviewed by Timothy Larson)/Riva Krut & Harris Gleckman ISO14001: A Missed Opportunity for Sustainable Global Industrial Development (reviewed by Carol Meeds)/Herbert Enmarch-Williams (Ed.) Environmental Risks and Rewards for Business (reviewed by Jeffrey Bury)

Volume 4  Number 1  February 1999

EDITORIAL
Sustainability, Equity and Environmental Justice Julian Agyeman &
Bob Evans 3

ARTICLES
Dismantling Environmental Racism in the USA Robert D. Bullard 5

Attitudes to Sustainable Development in Planning: policy integration, participation and Local Agenda 21, a case-study of the Hertfordshire Structure Plan David Counsell 21

Community Gardens and Sustainable Land Use Planning: a case-study
of the Alex Wilson Community Garden Seana Irvine, Lorraine Johnson &
Kim Peters 33

Tales of Local Sustainability Paul Selman & Jane Parker 47

COMMENT
Environmental Governance for Sustainable Urban Development:
a European model? Yvonne Rydin 61

VIEWPOINTS
Sustainable Local Economic Development: a new agenda for action?
Les Newby 67

Will Best Value Bring Sustainability in from the Cold? Joan Bennett 73

Co-operative Living Arrangements among Older Women Maria Brenton 79

BOOK REVIEWS 89
U. Collier (Ed.) Deregulation in the European Union: environmental perspectives; H. Somsen (ed.) Protecting the European Environment: enforcing EC environmental law (reviewed by Susan Baker)/Elizabeth Bomberg Green parties and Politics in the European Union; Philip Lowe & Stephen Ward (Eds) British Environmental Policy and Europe (reviewed by Susan Leubuscher)/Philip D. Brick & R. McGreggor Cawley (Eds) Wolf in the Garden: the land rights movement and the new environmental debate (reviewed by Karl Jacoby)/E. C. Pielou Fresh Water (reviewed by Andrew Cundy)/Timothy Doyle & Doug McEachern Environment and Politics (reviewed by Michael M. Welsh)/S. Nottingham Eat Your Genes: how genetically modified food is entering our diet (reviewed by Peter Dickens)/PACTE programme of the European Commission Working for Better Environmental Performance in SMEs (reviewed by Ineke van der Storm)/ Lois Marie Gibbs Love Canal, the Story Continues (reviewed by Susan Buckingham-Hatfield)

Volume 3  Number 3  October 1998

EDITORIAL
Greenhouse Gases Special: thinking locally in science, practice and
policy  Julian Agyeman, Bob Evans & Robert W. Kates 245

ARTICLES
Changing Places, Changing Emissions: the cross-scale reliability of
greenhouse gas emission inventories in the US  William E. Easterling,
Colin Polsky, Doug Goodin, Michael W. Mayfield, William A. Muraco & Brent Yarnal247

The Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: what do we learn from
local case studies?  David P. Angel, Samuel Attoh, David Kromm, Jennifer DeHart,
Rachel Slocum & Stephen White 263

Methods for Estimating Greenhouse Gases from Local Places
Robert W. Kates, Michael W. Mayfield, Ralph D. Torrie & Brian Witcher 279

From Symbolic Gesture to the Mainstream: next steps in local urban
sustainability  Peter Newman 299

Electricity in the Marketplace: reconfiguring the consumption of
essential resources  Simon Guy & Simon Marvin 313

Implementing Agenda 21 in Local Government: the Swedish
experience  Katarina Eckerberg & Bjrn Forsberg 333

VIEWPOINTS
Participation Works!  Perry Walker 349

Footprinting UK households: how big is your ecological garden?
Craig Simmons & Nicky Chambers 355

Overcoming the Barriers to Effective National Sustainable
Development Strategies: the role of environmental space analysis 
Duncan McLaren 363

From Business to Municipality—and back  Christopher Erdmenger 371

BOOK REVIEWS   381
Rodney Tolley (Ed.) The Greening of Urban Transport; John Whitelegg Critical Mass; Wilfried Wolf Car Mania (reviewed by Julie King)/Pat Caplan Food, Health and Identity; Gordon Conway The Doubly Green Revolution. Food for all in the 21st century; Alan Warde Consumption, Food and Taste (reviewed by Peter Dickens)/K.L. O'Brien Sacrificing the Forest: environmental and social struggles in Chiapas (reviewed by lvaro Fernndez-Gonzlez)/Alix Fano Lethal Laws: animal testing, human health and environmental policy (reviewed by Dawn Coppin)/Colin Hutchinson Building to Last: the challenges for business leaders (reviewed by Adam Weinberg)/Franois Lvque (Ed.) Environmental Policy in Europe: industry, competition and the policy process (reviewed by Anke Zerm)/Rupert Howes, Jim Skea & Bob Whelan Clean and Competitive? Motivating environmental performance in industry (reviewed by Barry Solomon)/Hugh Prince Wetlands of the American Midwest: a historical geography of changing attitudes (reviewed by Elizabeth Carney Sowards)

Index, Volume 3, 1998 395

Volume 3  Number 2  June 1998

EDITORIAL
From Finance in Brazil, to the Framework of the Bioregion
Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 109

ARTICLES
The Jurisdictional Framework for Municipal Action to Reduce
Greenhouse Gas Emissions: case studies from Canada, the USA and
Germany Benjamin J. DeAngelo & L. D. Danny Harvey111

Challenges and Threats to Communal Coping Strategies: the case of
'the poor' and sustainable development in Ghana K. E. Mensah-Abrampa 137

Eco-neighbourhoods: a review of projects Hugh Barton 159

The Significance and Praxis of Community-based Sustainability Projects:
community gardens in Western Australia Laura Stocker & Kate Barnett 179

Sustainability and Materiality: the bioregional and cultural challenges
to evaluation Fionn Stevenson & Jonathan Ball 191

COMMENT
Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO): creating a level playing field for
commercial electricity production from wind turbines for England and
Wales David Russell & Ashok Patel 211

VIEWPOINT
Radical Dreams Coming Through: Local Agenda 21 and the
Participative Budget Patricia Kranz & Nilvo L. A. Silva 215

RESPONSE
Footprints: recent steps and possible traps. The author's reply to
Roger Levett's Response Mathis Wackernagel 221

BOOK REVIEWS 227
Ernst von Weizacker, Amory Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (reviewed by Amanda Brace); Jordi Borja & Manuel Castells Local and Global: Management of Cities in the Information Age (reviewed by Daniel Mittler); Michael Redclift Wasted: counting the costs of global consumption (reviewed by Tim Forsyth); Noel Sturgeon Eco-feminist Natures: race, gender, feminist theory and political action (reviewed by Mary Mellor); Matthew Paterson Global Warming and Global Politics (reviewed by James Eflin); Valerie M. Brown (Ed.) Managing for Local Sustainability: policy, problem-solving, practice and place (reviewed by Peder Hjorth); David Leslie & Fiona Muir Local Agenda 21, Local Authorities and Tourism: a United Kingdom perspective (reviewed by Rachel Macdonald); Ronald E. Zupko & Robert A. Laures Straws in the Wind: medieval urban environmental law—the case of Northern Italy (reviewed by Dayne Walling)

Volume 3 Number 1 February 1998

EDITORIAL
A Partnership for Local Sustainable Development
Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 5

ARTICLES
The Ecological Footprint of Santiago de Chile
Mathis Wackernagel 7

Integrating Planning and Sustainability Theory for Local Benefit
Robert Gilkey Dyck 27

Environmental Accounts for Households: a method for improving
public awareness and participation
Henrik Lund 43

The Ironic Compatibility of Recycling Practice and UK Government Policy
Tom Entwistle 55

RESPONSES
Footprinting: a great step forward, but tread carefully—a response
to Mathis Wackernagel
Roger Levett 67

'New Localism' or Local Environmental Policy Regimes? A response
to Marvin & Guy
David Gibbs 75

VIEWPOINTS
Towards a Checklist for Ecovillage Development
Ted Trainer 79

Integrated Reconstruction of Communities: a culturally based
approach to local development in Taiwan
Min-Jay Kang & Michael LaFond 85

'Glocalisation' and Ecological Modernity: challenges for local
environmental governance in Australia
Kate Crowley 91

BOOK REVIEWS 99
David Wallace Sustainable Industrialisation; Christian Ndubisi Madu Managing Green Technologies for Global Competitiveness; Walter Wehrmeyer (Ed.) Greening People, Human Resources and Environmental Management (reviewed by Hugh Stewart)/David Satterthwaite, Roger Hart, Caren Levy, Diana Mitlin, David Ross, Jac Smit & Carolyn Stephens The Environment for Children: understanding and acting on the environmental hazards that threaten children and their parents (reviewed by Fiona Smith)/Paul Selman Local Sustainability: managing and planning ecologically sound places (reviewed by Stephen Young)

Volume 2 Number 3 October 1997

EDITORIAL
Academics, Practitioners, Sustainability and the Local Environment
Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 229

ARTICLES
Greener Local Economic Development: reflections from the UK on
current European approaches
Liz Mills & Annette Schneegans 231

Addressing Disputes in a Coalition Framework: the case of
agriculture and the environment
Edmund M. Tavernier & Maurice P. Hartley 249

Global Risk, Local Values?: 'risk society' and the greenhouse issue
in Newcastle, Australia
Harriet Bulkeley 261

Marine Protected Areas and Local Coastal Conservation and
Management in Hong Kong
Jian-hua Liu & Peter Hills 275

RESPONSE
Sustainability Indicators Revisited: getting from political objectives to
performance outcomes—a response to Graham Pinfield
Jeb Brugmann 299

VIEWPOINTS
Is 'Sustainable City' an Oxymoron?
William E. Rees 303

Creating Myths rather than Sustainability: the transition fallacies of
the new localism
Simon Marvin & Simon Guy 311

Are Australian Councils 'Willing and Able' to Implement Local
Agenda 21?
Stella Whittaker 319

BOOK REVIEWS 329
C. G. Herndl & S. C. Brown (Eds) Green Culture: environmental rhetoric in contemporary America; S. A. Muir & T. L. Veenendall Earthtalk: communication empowerment for environmental action (reviewed by George Myerson & Yvonne Rydin)/Kay Milton Environmentalism and Cultural Theory (reviewed by Carolyn Harrison)/Kenneth A. Gould, Allan Schnaiberg & Adam S. Weinberg Local Environmental Struggles: citizen activism in the treadmill of production (reviewed by Marjorie Mayo)/George Myerson & Yvonne Rydin The Language of Environment: a new rhetoric (reviewed by Patsy Healey)/Sally Eden Environmental Issues and Business: implications of a changing agenda (reviewed by Jon Vernon)/John Farmer Green Shift: towards a green sensibility in architecture (reviewed by Nick Williams)/Mark Luccarelli Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: the politics of planning (reviewed by Tim Brindley)/Ted Bernard & Jora Young The Ecology of Hope: communities collaborate for sustainability (reviewed by Ted Trainer)/Valerie A. Brown Turning the Tide: integrated local area management for Australia's coastal zone (reviewed by Allan R. Jones)/Forestry Commission Involving Communities in Forestry through Community Participation; Bill Slee, Gill Clark & Patrick Snowdon The Scope for Community Participation in Forest Management; Paul Selman The Role of Woodlands in Meeting Planning Objectives in Great Britain (reviewed by Judy Walker)

Volume 2 Number 2 June 1997

EDITORIAL
Government, Sustainability and Community
Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 117

ARTICLES
Values and the State in Natural Resource Management: the
Mt Wellington Skyway dispute, Hobart, Tasmania
Kate Crowley 119

Deliberating Waste: the Hertfordshire Citizens' Jury
Richard Kuper 139

Eco-investing: financing sustainable economic development
Anna Mathewson & Michael M'Gonigle 155

Citizenship, Civicness and Social Capital in Local Agenda 21
Paul Selman & Jane Parker 171

RESPONSE
The Use of Indicators in Local Sustainable Development Planning: a
response to Jeb Brugmann
Graham Pinfield 185

COMMENT
Tools, Techniques and Processes for Municipal Environmental
Management
Roger Levett 189

VIEWPOINTS
The Environmental Agenda in Post-colonial Hong Kong
Peter Hills 203

A Tale from the Island of Laputa: the UNCHS (Habitat) Crowding and
Health Project from the perspective of two reluctant Laputans
Carolyn Stephens & Jes Clauson-Kaas 209

BOOK REVIEWS 215
Richard Gilbert, Don Stevenson, Herbert Girardet & Richard Stren Making Cities Work: the role of local government in the urban environment (reviewed by Richard Cowell)/P. Glasbergen & A. Blowers (Eds) Environmental Policy in an International Context, Vols 1-3: Perspectives, Conflicts and Prospects (reviewed by James Tansey)/M. Wintle & R. Reeve (Eds) Rhetoric and Reality in Environmental Policy (reviewed by Marius Schwartz)/G. Robertson et al. (Eds) FutureNatural: Nature, Science, Culture (reviewed by Peter Dickens)/John B. Braden, Henk Folmer & Thomas S. Ulen (Eds) Environmental Policy with Political Integration: the European Union and the United States. New horizons in environmental economics (reviewed by Cliona Kimber)

Volume 2 Number 1 February 1997

EDITORIAL
Is Anyone Listening?
Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 5

ARTICLES
Towards a Re-evaluation of the Role of Finance in the Causation of
Environmental Degradation
Frances Hutchinson & Brian Burkitt 7

Reducing Car-based Journeys to Work: what potential is there and
whose responsibility is it?
Charlotte Coleman & Carey Curtis 19

Local Authorities and Climate Protection in the European Union:
putting subsidiarity into practice?
Ute Collier 39

Is There a Method in Our Measurement? The use of indicators in local
sustainable development planning
Jeb Brugmann 59

COMMENT
Partnerships: panacea or pitfall? Experience in Leicester Environment
City
Alison Darlow & Les Newby 73

VIEWPOINTS
Local Environments, the Division of Labour and Alienation from Nature
Peter Dickens 83

Using Our Feet to Reduce Our Footprint: the importance of scale in life
Chris Bradshaw 89

BOOK REVIEWS 95
T. Colborn, J.P. Myers & D. Dumanoski Our Stolen Future. How man-made chemicals are threatening our fertility, intelligence and survival (reviewed by Peter Dickens)/John Hannigan Environmental Sociology: a social constructionist perspective; Alan Irwin Citizen Science: a study of people, expertise and sustainable development (reviewed by Peter Simmons)/David Maddison, David Pearce, Olof Johansson, Edward Calthrop, Todd Litman & Eric Verhoef The True Costs of Road Transport (reviewed by Philip Steinberg)/RAC Foundation for Motoring and the Environment Car Dependence: a report for the RAC Foundation for Motoring and the Environment (reviewed by Kenneth Button)/Roger Few (Ed.), Leicester Environment City Trust Local Sustainability: turning sustainable development into practical action in our communities (reviewed by Stephen McAndrews)/Mark Yaxon Successful Environmental Management in a Week (reviewed by Mary Anderson)/H. Falmer, H. Landis Gabel & H. Opschoor Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics (reviewed by Joyce Liddle)/David Bjornstad & James R. Khan (Eds) The Contingent Valuation of Environmental Resources: methodological issues and research needs (reviewed by David Martin)/Peter Martin & Colin Hutchinson Towards Sustainability (reviewed by Jason Palmer) Paul Hackett Conservation and the Consumer: understanding environmental concern (reviewed by Michael Woodin).

Volume 1 Number 3 October 1996

EDITORIAL
Making the Impossible Possible?
Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 245

ARTICLES
On Course for a Sustainable Future? European environmental
policy and local economic development
David Gibbs 247

Whose Landcare? Observations on the role of 'community' in
the Australian Landcare programme
Sarah Ewing 259

From Environment to Sustainability: surveys and analysis of Local
Agenda 21 process development in UK local authorities
Ben Tuxworth 277

Back-alley Sustainability and the Role of Environmental Education
Arjen E. J. Wals 299

VIEWPOINTS
DEVO, Weasels and Sustainable Development
J. Gary Lawrence 317

The Role of the Voluntary Sector in Urban Nature Conservation
in Britain
Robert Marshall & Jeremy Patterson 323

COMMENT
From Eco-Management and Audit (EMAS) to Sustainability
Management and Audit (SMAS)
Roger Levett 329

BOOK REVIEWS 335
G. Haughton & C. Hunter Sustainable Cities; P. Nijkamp & A. Perrels Sustainable Cities in Europe; J. C. J. M. van den Bergh & J. van der Straaten Toward Sustainable Development Concepts, Methods and Policy (reviewed by David Gibbs)/David E. Cooper & Joy A. Palmer (Eds) Just Environments: intergenerational, international and interspecies issues (reviewed by Andrew Dobson)/Stella Whittaker (Ed.) First Steps: Local Agenda 21 in practice (reviewed by Richard Adams)/Sue Zielinski & Gordon Laird (Eds) Beyond the Car: essays on the auto culture (reviewed by Chris Wood)

Index, Volume 1 341

Volume 1 Number 2 June 1996

EDITORIAL
Local Sustainable Development and the Need for Balance
Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 149

ARTICLES
Beyond Sustainability Indicators
Graham Pinfield 151

Public Opinion and Solid Waste in Bangkok
Fiona Nunan 165

Community Environmental Action: the Plumstead Common experience
Euan McPhee 183

Economic Instruments for Sustainable Community Development
Mark Roseland 197

COMMENT
Resolving Conflict? The Rural White Paper, sustainability and
countryside policy
James Blake 211

VIEWPOINTS
Local Authorities, Universities and Communities: alliances for
sustainability
Ian Hutchcroft 219

The UK National Obsession with Energy Supply
Paul Fleming 225

BOOK REVIEWS 229
Ulrich Beck Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk (reviewed by David Pepper)/Peter Roberts Environmentally Sustainable Business: a local and regional perspective (reviewed by Sally Eden)/Peter Morris & Riki Therivel (Eds) Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment (reviewed by Gordon Walker)/Hugh Barton & Noel Bruder A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing (reviewed by Susie Ohlenschlager)/Richard Waite Household Waste Recycling (reviewed by Bob Roper)/Forestry Commission A Seed in Time: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Urban and Community Forestry (reviewed by Mary Blake)/Tom Buhrs & Robert Bartlett Environmental Policy in New Zealand: the politics of clean and green?; Stephen Rainbow Green Politics (reviewed by Ros Taplin)/E. Ndione et al. The Future of Community Lands: human resources (reviewed by Simon Batterbury).

Volume 1 Number 1 February 1996

Editorial
Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans 5

ARTICLES
Local Agenda 21, Compulsory Competitive Tendering and
Local Environmental Practices
Alan Patterson & Kate S. Theobald 7

The Europeanisation of Local Environmental Politics: bathing
water pollution in south-west England
Neil Ward, Henry Buller & Philip Lowe 21

The Political Significance of Local Agenda 21: the early stages
of some European experience
Heather Voisey, Christiane Beuermann, Liv Astric Sverdrup & Tim O'Riordan 33

Enduring Decisions: evaluating environmental impacts for
sustainability planning
Duncan McLaren 51

The Politics and Power Effects of Garbage Recycling in Halifax,
Canada
Eric Darier 63

Local Authorities and Sustainable Development: turning policies
into practical action through performance review-a case study
of the London Borough of Hackney
Tony Jones 87

COMMENT
An Emerging Framework for Local Agenda 21
Lesley Williams 107

VIEWPOINTS
Professionalism, Practice and Possibilities
Jane Brooke & Lesley Rowan 113

Global Policy, Local Action? International debate and the role of NGOs
Richard Tapper 119

BOOK REVIEWS 127