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Project Code [2004-SD-MS-23-M2]
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Project title
Sustainable Participation? Evaluating the Role of City And County Development Boards in Local Sustainable Development
Primary Funding Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
n/a
Lead Organisation
University College Cork (UCC)
Lead Applicant
Gerard Mullally
Project Abstract
Sustainable development is essentially a political programme for change adopted by governments throughout the world. It has its primary basis in Our Common Future (WCED 1987) and is endorsed by international agreements sanctioned in Rio in 1992 (the Earth Summit) and Johannesburg in 2002 (World Summit on Sustainable Development). Chapter 28 of Agenda 21 the global programme for the implementation of sustainable development agreed at the Earth Summit placed the responsibility for coordinating local sustainable development firmly at the door of local governments throughout the world.The City and County Development Boards (CDBs) were created in 2000. The remit of these CDBs is to design a city/ countywide i'Strategy for Economic Social and Cultural Developmenti and to undertake the relevant dimensions of its delivery. They are linked to local government under the auspices of the Director of Community and Enterprise. While the implementation of Local Agenda 21 is clearly the responsibility of local government the fact that the CDBs are focused on a strategic approach to local development suggests that they create a context mechanism and an agreed strategy conducive to the governance of local sustainable development.The research contained in this report i'i'Sustainable Participation: Evaluating the role of CDBs in Promoting Public Participation in Local Sustainable Developmenti? (SUSPART) responds directly to a call for proposals under the Environmental Protection Agency ERTDI Sub-measure 2: Sustainable Development.
Grant Approved
�138,022.80
Research Hub
Sustainability
Research Theme
Socio-Economic Considerations
Initial Projected Completion Date
01/08/2006