Proposed Agenda for Meeting of the executive Committee International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

Proposed Agenda for Meeting of the Executive CommitteeInternational Council for Local Environmental InitiativesJanuary 11-13, 1990London, United Kingdom01-ICLEI-Planning Document #102- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed Agenda & Schedule03- ICLEI-Planning Document - Strategic Plan04- ICLEI-Planning Document - Minutes of September 1990 Meetings05- ICLEI-Planning Document - Financial Status06- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed Charter Revisions07- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed Articles of Incorporation08- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed By-laws09- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed Membership Dues Structure10- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed budget & Cash Flows11- ICLEI-Planning Document – Fiscal Sponsorship12- ICLEI-Planning Document – City Host Proposals13- ICLEI-Planning Document – Officers/Secretary Genera

Pressure-Point Strategy: Leverages for Urban Systemic Transformation

Sustainability can be understood as a specific kind of problem framing that emphasizes the interconnectedness of different problems and scales and calls for new forms of problem handling that are much more process-oriented, reflexive and iterative in nature. Closely related with the notion of reflexive governance, we propose such an alternative strategy for societal problem handling and change management in the urban context. The strategy starts from stress states in the urban system(s) and uses their initial momentum to encourage systemic change through intraventions—rather than interventions—at selected pressure points. This paper highlights the potential to evolve what has often been an intuitive practice, led by community or elected leaders with unique wisdom about functions and pressure points in their urban system, into a more accessible strategy for shaping socio-ecological transformation in urban practice

Solar Roads, urban mining, the Jevons Paradox and energy efficiency

It's one thing to develop new technologies but making them more efficient is increasingly the focus. But can the pursuit of efficiency actually be counter-productive? Ever heard of the Jevons Paradox

The dialectic of social exchange: theorizing corporate-social enterprise collaboration

We augment social exchange theory with dialectical theory to build a framework to examine corporate—social enterprise collaborations. These cross-sector collaborations represent a novel form of political-economic arrangement seeking to reconcile the efficient functioning of markets with the welfare of communities. We propose that corporate-social enterprise collaborations are shaped by (1) the value that each member of the collaboration attributes to their partner’s inputs, (2) competing practices and priorities intrinsic to the corporation and the social enterprise, and (3) expected benefits of the collaboration to each partner. For a synthesized state of collaboration to emerge and the partnership to be sustained, we posit that the antithetical forces inherent within the relationship must be resolved

Beyond Poverty: Social Justice in a Global Marketplace

The social justice paradigm, developed in philosophy by John Rawls and others, reaches limits when confronted with diverse populations, unsound governments, and global markets. Its parameters are further limited by a traditional utilitarian approach to both industrial actors and consumer behaviors. Finally, by focusing too exclusively on poverty, as manifested in insufficient incomes or resources, the paradigm overlooks the oppressive role that gender, race, and religious prejudice play in keeping the poor subordinated. The authors suggest three ways in which marketing researchers could bring their unique expertise to the question of social justice in a global economy: by (1) reinventing the theoretical foundation laid down by thinkers such as Rawls, (2) documenting and evaluating emergent “feasible fixes” to achieve justice (e.g., the global resource dividend, cause-related marketing, Fair Trade, philanthrocapitalism), and (3) exploring the parameters of the consumption basket that would be minimally required to achieve human capabilities