The Councillor as Guardian of the Environment


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An Essay and Workshop for Local Elected Leaders on Environmental Governance
with Emphasis on Adopting Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs)
- Training for Elected Leadership -

Part I - Essay on the Councillor as Guardian of the Environment
- ESSAY -
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does
to the web he does to himself. Chief Seattle, Native American Leader, 1857.

REFERENCES

¹The case study has been adapted from a longer description in Pezzoli, Keith, "Sustainable Livelihoods in the Urban Milieu," In Defense of Livelihood: Comparative Studies on Environmental Action, John Friedmann and Haripriya Rangan, eds. (West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 1993).

²Ibid.

³Korten, David, When Corporations Rule the World. (West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press and Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1995), p.21.

⁴From a series of articles published between 21 January and 19 March, 1996 in editions of the Sunday Nation and the Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya.

⁵Fritz, Robert, The Path of Least Resistance (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989), p. 122.

⁶Schwartz, Peter, The Art of the Long View (New York: Currency Doubleday, 1991), p. 3.

⁷Weisbord, Marvin and Janoff, Sandra, Future Search: An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations & Communities ( San Francisco, Ca.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1995), p. ix.

⁸Ibid, p.21.

⁹These examples taken from Dell, Twyla, The Corporate Leader: Five Steps to a New Ethic. (Crisp Publications, 1996).

¹⁰Environmental Reference Book: Impacts of Infrastructure Development on the Environment, prepared by a team of specialists from Ecotec Resource and published by CARE International-Bangladesh, 1992.

¹¹Bryson, John M., Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (San Francisco, Ca.: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1988), p. 52.

¹²Coates, Joseph F. with Jain, Ashok, Anticipating the Environmental Effects of Technology: A Primer and Workbook (Washington, D.C., The Kanawha Institute for the Study of the Future, November 1995), p. 48.

¹³Tuts, Raf, "Essaouira, Morocco," Localising Agenda 21: Action Planning for Sustainable Urban Development, Nairobi, Kenya UNCHS (Habitat), 1996.

¹⁴Community-Based Service Delivery, Case Study 21 (Toronto, Canada: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, August 1994).

¹⁵From WBN (World Bank News), February 8, 1996.

¹⁶Environmental Auditing, Case Study 6 (Toronto, Canada: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, March 1992).

¹⁷These criteria and other thoughts about the subject are taken from a technical publication, Environmental Risk Assessment for Sustainable Cities, UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre, Osaka, Japan, May 1996.

¹⁸ World Resources Institute, World Resources 1996-97: Report on Urban Environment and Human Health (Washington, D.C., WRI, 1996), pp. 42-3.

¹⁹Brooks, Harvey, "The Concepts of Sustainable Development and Environmentally Sound Technology," ATAS Bulletin, Issue 7, Spring 1992, p. 21.

²⁰Ibid.

²¹From an article by William Drozdiak, The Washington Post, that found its way onto page 2, Section AA of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 31, 1996.

²²Coates, op. cit., p. 62.

²³Pye-Smith, Charlie, et al, "The Mudialy Fisherman's Cooperative Society," The Wealth of Communities (West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 1994), pp. 1-16.

²⁴Bryson, John M. and Crosby, Barbara C., Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World (San Francisco, Ca.: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1992), p. 281.

²⁵From Land-use/Transport: Curitiba, Brasil: Case Study 2 (Toronto, Canada: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, November 1991).

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