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Within international discussions of sustainable development, increasing attention is being paid to local initiatives designed to provide what is often presented as a ‘bottom-up’ approach to environmental action. This broad approach follows the general rhetoric of sustainability as expressed in the Brundtland Report emphasising the need for widespread participation and empowerment. Meanwhile, and somewhat counter to this approach, the process of institutional response and development has largely been dominated by national and inter-national bodies. Accordingly, many efforts towards local development have been framed within a wider policy framework set by centralised institutional authorities and, as in the case of Agenda 21, subsequently delegated to local authorities (Young, 1997; O’Riordan and Voisey, 1998).
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Georg, S., Irwin, A. (2002). Re-Interpreting Local-Global Partnerships. In: de Bruijn, T.J.N.M., Tukker, A. (eds) Partnership and Leadership. Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2545-3_4
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