Sustainable communities in Europe / edited by William M. Lafferty.

Sweden: problems and prospects at the leading edge of LA21 implementation / Katarina Eckerberg -- Finland: in search of new implementation patterns / Anita Niemi-Iilahti -- Denmark: the participatory and consensus-seeking approach of the Danish LA21 / Jesper Holm and Mercy Wambui Kamara -- Norway: LA21 as a means of interpreting and achieving sustainable production and consumption / Carlo Aall -- The United Kingdom: mainstreaming, mutating, or expiring? / Chris Churchand Stephen Young -- Ireland: starting late: building institutional capacity onthe reform of sub-national governance? / Gerard Mullally -- The Netherlands: probing the essence of LA21 as a value-added approach to sustainable development and local democracy / Frans Coenen -- France: LA21: a new tool for sustainable policies? / Corrine Larrue ... [and others] -- Austria: from eco-social market economyto LA21 / Michael Narodoslawsky and Andrea Grabher -- Italy: converging pathways between central and local levels of government? / Emiliano Ramieri, Ja