How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies

All over the world our cities, towns and communities are at a tipping point, vulnerable to environmental and economic change. Hard to make, Hard to Break: How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies has been written to address this challenge. It offers a dramatic new way of thinking and doing to make unstable societies resilient to future shocks - an ageing population, food and water scarcity, obesity and diabetes, peak oil or extreme weather. Written by experienced and successful change leader Philip Monaghan (author of Sustainability in Austerity), this book sets out how visionary national and local leaders can transform unsustainable societies as they attempt to survive an age of austerity and environmental change. The book examines why some societies are more sustainable than others, finding that successful communities devolve greater power to citizens. It sets out how to transform local governance through locally-agreed and enacted rights and responsibilities, incentives and sanctions. By eliminating the culture of dependency in a socially and environmentally progressive way, the book shows how to transcend the political and social spectrum and even unify people around a common purpose: empowered resilience.