Table of contents
1. Keys to a sustainable environment: education, community development and local democracy, Susan Buckingham-Hatfield and Susan Percy;
2. Local government, local people and local agenda, Jane Parker and Paul Selman;
3. Getting people involved, Walter Leal Filho;
4. Beyond volunteering and rhetoric: implications of Local Agenda 21 initiatives in Wales, Michael Clarke and Alan Netherwood;
5. Hopes and Fears for Local Agenda 21, Ken Webster;
6. Children's participation in environmental decision making, Claire Freeman;
7. Youth and Agenda 21, Jane Knightsbridge-Randall;
8. Including women: addressing gender, Susan Buckingham-Hatfield and Judith Matthews;
9. The North-South dimension of Local Agenda 21, Marek Lubelski and Raff Carmen;
10. Equal opportunities and local initiatives in Sri Lanka, Anoja Wickramasinghe;
11. Ground-truthing ecologically sustainable development, Valerie A. Brown;
12. Emerging contradictions: sustainable development and the new local government, Alan Patterson and Kate S. Theobald;
13. The opportunities and challenges for local environmental policy and action in the UK, Bob Evans and Susan Percy;
14. Constructing future local environmental agendas, Susan Buckingham-Hatfield and Susan Percy