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Kitchen Table Sustainability

Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability

Wendy Sarkissian Nancy Hofer Yollana Shore Steph Vajda Cathy Wilkinson

$39.99 Paperback
Release Date: 11/1/2008
ISBN: 9781844076147

400 Pages

Distributed for Earthscan

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About the Book

Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world.

This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from community planning, engagement and sustainability practice internationally into a userfriendly and engaging book that is both inspirational and packed with hands-on tools. The core of the book is a bottom-up approach to participatory community engagement and development, referred to as EATING, that consists of six components: Education, Action, Trust, Inclusion, Nourishment and Governance.

For more information, visit: http://kitchentablesustainability.com

About the Author(s)

Wendy Sarkissian PhD, a planning practitioner, academic and speaker, has co-authored many award-winning books on planning and community engagement. Nancy Hofer is a planning postgraduate student at the University of British Columbia. Yollana Shore is a community engagement practitioner, therapist and entrepreneur. Steph Vajda is a community cultural development practitioner based in Brisbane, Australia. Cathy Wilkinson, based in Sweden, provides sustainable planning advice to city governments across the world.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor Peter Newman
‘Perhaps the World Ends Here‘ by Jo Harjo
Preface

1: Introduction
2: The Sustainability Story
3: Community Engagement: A Pathway to Sustainability
4: The EATING Approach...
5: Education
6: Action
7: Trust
8: Inclusion
9: Nourishment
10: Governance
11: Conclusions, Challenges and a Way Forward

Index

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