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Greening the Fife Economy: Ecological Modernization as a Pathway for Local Economic Development

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  • Tony Jackson
  • Peter Roberts

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Progress in the greening of UK local government has been hampered by uncertainty about the relationship between resource use and environmental protection. Ecological modernizationmay offer the most appropriateparadigm to reconcile economic, social and environmentalinterpretationsof sustainability. The transition from corporate to strategic environmental management currently being attempted by some 'green' authorities can be construed as an attempt to promote ecological modernization in the form of institutional learning. Fife Council in Scotland provides an interesting case study. Progress with corporate environmental management has become bound up with a radical devolution of decision making. Efforts to link the authority's Sustainable Development Policy to a Local Agenda 21 programme have been initiated with the piloting of sustainability indicators.

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  • Tony Jackson & Peter Roberts, 1997. "Greening the Fife Economy: Ecological Modernization as a Pathway for Local Economic Development," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(5), pages 615-630.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:40:y:1997:i:5:p:615-630
    DOI: 10.1080/09640569711976
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    1. Tony Jackson, 2007. "Mainstreaming Sustainability in Local Economic Development Practice," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 22(1), pages 12-26, February.
    2. David Gibbs & Andrew E G Jonas, 2001. "Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 19(2), pages 269-288, April.
    3. José Manuel Prado Lorenzo & Isabel María Garcia Sanchez, 2007. "The effect of Participation in the Development of Local Agenda 21 in the European Union," Post-Print halshs-00519902, HAL.
    4. Tony Jackson & Jennifer Dixon, 2007. "The New Zealand Resource Management Act: An Exercise in Delivering Sustainable Development through an Ecological Modernisation Agenda," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 34(1), pages 107-120, February.
    5. Paul Benneworth & Peter Roberts, 2002. "Devolution, Sustainability and Local Economic Development: Impacts on Local Autonomy, Policymaking and Economic Development Outcomes," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 17(3), pages 239-252, August.

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