Edited by Michael Peters, Lecturer in Energy Policy, University of Reading, UK, Shane Fudge, Lecturer in Energy Policy, University of Exeter and Tim Jackson, Director, RESOLVE, University of Surrey, UK

‘We are faced with the greatest challenge to public engagement since World War Two, and a new discourse of fear - not military invasion but climate change. At the same time most people cannot grasp the scale of the challenge nor what they are supposed to do about it. Good governance requires an informed citizenry who are much more than consumers and customers, but active participants in a new post-carbon politics. Low Carbon Communities helps to set out the political and cultural agenda for the first half of the twenty-first century and, ultimately, the imaginative approaches that are required now to address climate change.’

• Contents:Preface: The Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE)ForewordIan ChristieIntroductionPART I: FACILITATING THE LOW CARBON TRANSITION: THEORETICAL AND INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE1. Community Engagement and Social Organization: Introducing Concepts, Policy and Practical ApplicationsMichael Peters2. Sustainable Communities: Neo-Tribalism between Modern Lifestyles and Social ChangeDavid Evans3. The Social Dimensions of Behaviour Change: An Overview of Community-based Interventions to Encourage Pro-environmental Behaviours Wokje AbrahamsePART II: CHALLENGES FOR LOCAL LEVEL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR LOW CARBON COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE4. Transforming the Nation-state through Environmentalism: Political Influences on a Multi-level Governance Framework in the UKShane Fudge5. The Role of Local Authorities in Galvanizing Action to Tackle Climate Change: A Practitioner’s PerspectiveSimon Roberts6. Mobilizing Sustainability: Partnership Working between a Pro-cycling NGO and Local Government in LondonJustin Spinney7. Low Carbon Communities and the Currencies of ChangeGill Seyfang8. Decarbonizing Local Economies: A New Low Carbon, High Well-being Model of Local Economic DevelopmentElizabeth Cox and Victoria JohnsonPART III: MODELS OF SUSTAINABLE AND LOW CARBON COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES9. The Community Carbon Reduction ProgrammeSimon Gerrard10. Global Action Plan’s EcoTeams ProgrammeScott Davidson11. Woking Borough Council: Working Towards a Low Carbon CommunityLara Curran12. Intentional Community Carbon Reduction and Climate Change Action: From Ecovillages to Transition TownsJoshua Lockyer13. Energy Conscious Households in Action (ECHO Action)Elliot Bushay14. The HadLOW CARBON Community: Behavioural Evolution in the Face of Climate ChangeHoward Lee and Julie Taylor15. Empowering Farmers to React and to Act: From an Anti-golf Course Pressure Group to a Community-based Farmers’ Cooperative Mario CardonaEpilogue: Retrofitting Buildings Viewed as a Civil Engineering Project – Just Do ItMichael KellyIndex

Edited by Michael Peters, Lecturer in Energy Policy, University of Reading, UK, Shane Fudge, Lecturer in Energy Policy, University of Exeter and Tim Jackson, Director, RESOLVE, University of Surrey, UK

‘We are faced with the greatest challenge to public engagement since World War Two, and a new discourse of fear - not military invasion but climate change. At the same time most people cannot grasp the scale of the challenge nor what they are supposed to do about it. Good governance requires an informed citizenry who are much more than consumers and customers, but active participants in a new post-carbon politics. Low Carbon Communities helps to set out the political and cultural agenda for the first half of the twenty-first century and, ultimately, the imaginative approaches that are required now to address climate change.’

• Contents:Preface: The Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE)ForewordIan ChristieIntroductionPART I: FACILITATING THE LOW CARBON TRANSITION: THEORETICAL AND INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE1. Community Engagement and Social Organization: Introducing Concepts, Policy and Practical ApplicationsMichael Peters2. Sustainable Communities: Neo-Tribalism between Modern Lifestyles and Social ChangeDavid Evans3. The Social Dimensions of Behaviour Change: An Overview of Community-based Interventions to Encourage Pro-environmental Behaviours Wokje AbrahamsePART II: CHALLENGES FOR LOCAL LEVEL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR LOW CARBON COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE4. Transforming the Nation-state through Environmentalism: Political Influences on a Multi-level Governance Framework in the UKShane Fudge5. The Role of Local Authorities in Galvanizing Action to Tackle Climate Change: A Practitioner’s PerspectiveSimon Roberts6. Mobilizing Sustainability: Partnership Working between a Pro-cycling NGO and Local Government in LondonJustin Spinney7. Low Carbon Communities and the Currencies of ChangeGill Seyfang8. Decarbonizing Local Economies: A New Low Carbon, High Well-being Model of Local Economic DevelopmentElizabeth Cox and Victoria JohnsonPART III: MODELS OF SUSTAINABLE AND LOW CARBON COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES9. The Community Carbon Reduction ProgrammeSimon Gerrard10. Global Action Plan’s EcoTeams ProgrammeScott Davidson11. Woking Borough Council: Working Towards a Low Carbon CommunityLara Curran12. Intentional Community Carbon Reduction and Climate Change Action: From Ecovillages to Transition TownsJoshua Lockyer13. Energy Conscious Households in Action (ECHO Action)Elliot Bushay14. The HadLOW CARBON Community: Behavioural Evolution in the Face of Climate ChangeHoward Lee and Julie Taylor15. Empowering Farmers to React and to Act: From an Anti-golf Course Pressure Group to a Community-based Farmers’ Cooperative Mario CardonaEpilogue: Retrofitting Buildings Viewed as a Civil Engineering Project – Just Do ItMichael KellyIndex

Edited by Michael Peters, Lecturer in Energy Policy, University of Reading, UK, Shane Fudge, Lecturer in Energy Policy, University of Exeter and Tim Jackson, Director, RESOLVE, University of Surrey, UK

‘We are faced with the greatest challenge to public engagement since World War Two, and a new discourse of fear - not military invasion but climate change. At the same time most people cannot grasp the scale of the challenge nor what they are supposed to do about it. Good governance requires an informed citizenry who are much more than consumers and customers, but active participants in a new post-carbon politics. Low Carbon Communities helps to set out the political and cultural agenda for the first half of the twenty-first century and, ultimately, the imaginative approaches that are required now to address climate change.’

• Contents:Preface: The Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE)ForewordIan ChristieIntroductionPART I: FACILITATING THE LOW CARBON TRANSITION: THEORETICAL AND INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE1. Community Engagement and Social Organization: Introducing Concepts, Policy and Practical ApplicationsMichael Peters2. Sustainable Communities: Neo-Tribalism between Modern Lifestyles and Social ChangeDavid Evans3. The Social Dimensions of Behaviour Change: An Overview of Community-based Interventions to Encourage Pro-environmental Behaviours Wokje AbrahamsePART II: CHALLENGES FOR LOCAL LEVEL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR LOW CARBON COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE4. Transforming the Nation-state through Environmentalism: Political Influences on a Multi-level Governance Framework in the UKShane Fudge5. The Role of Local Authorities in Galvanizing Action to Tackle Climate Change: A Practitioner’s PerspectiveSimon Roberts6. Mobilizing Sustainability: Partnership Working between a Pro-cycling NGO and Local Government in LondonJustin Spinney7. Low Carbon Communities and the Currencies of ChangeGill Seyfang8. Decarbonizing Local Economies: A New Low Carbon, High Well-being Model of Local Economic DevelopmentElizabeth Cox and Victoria JohnsonPART III: MODELS OF SUSTAINABLE AND LOW CARBON COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES9. The Community Carbon Reduction ProgrammeSimon Gerrard10. Global Action Plan’s EcoTeams ProgrammeScott Davidson11. Woking Borough Council: Working Towards a Low Carbon CommunityLara Curran12. Intentional Community Carbon Reduction and Climate Change Action: From Ecovillages to Transition TownsJoshua Lockyer13. Energy Conscious Households in Action (ECHO Action)Elliot Bushay14. The HadLOW CARBON Community: Behavioural Evolution in the Face of Climate ChangeHoward Lee and Julie Taylor15. Empowering Farmers to React and to Act: From an Anti-golf Course Pressure Group to a Community-based Farmers’ Cooperative Mario CardonaEpilogue: Retrofitting Buildings Viewed as a Civil Engineering Project – Just Do ItMichael KellyIndex