CLGF research colloquium

Sustainable local governance for prosperous communities

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 13-15 March 2011

On Sunday 13 March–Tuesday 15 March 2011 the Commonwealth Local Government Forum and Cardiff University, hosted a Research Colloquium in advance of the Commonwealth Local Government Conference 2011. Papers presented at the colloquium are below:

A] Sustainable Governance and Democracy

1. Robin Hambleton - Place-based leadership in a global era [download]
2. Olubunmi Ajayi -  Professionalising Local Government Leadership: A Foundational Imperative [download]
3. Steven Greasley -  Cabinet Governance and Political Stability [download]
4. Brian Dollery -  The Local Capacity, Local Community and Local Governance Dimension of Local Government Sustainability in Australian Local Government [download]
5. Landiwe Mahlangu -  Results based approach to Local sustainable Development [download]
6. George Matovu - Direct Deliberative Participatory Democracy and Governance: New Instruments in Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda [download]
7. Peter McKinlay -  Reconceptualising Shared Services [download]
8. Steve Martin - What is localism and does it matter? [download]
 

B) Sustainable Economic Development 

1. Lu Heideman - Municipal Local Economic Development [download]
2. Andrew Molloy  - Local economic development through housing revitalization in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
3. Eris D. Schoburgh - A critical analysis of the requirements of transitioning local government into economic development organization [download]
4. Alison Brown - Mainstreaming the informal economy and sustainable economic development: local government and micro-enterprises [download]
5. Jaap de Visser - New Local Government in South Africa: use of property rates as a means for stimulating economic development

 
C) Environmental sustainability

1. Bhaskar Chakrabarti - Local Leadership and Decentralised Environmental Governance in Rural India
2. David Grossman - Water and sanitation to the Urban Poor [download]
3. Anthony Jackson - Public sector responses to climate change: evaluating the role of Scottish local government in implementing the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 [download]
4. Raghabendra Chattopadhyay - National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Creation of Environmental Assets in Rural India [download]

D) Output from colloquium to main conference (summary note from Phil Amis)

The papers may subsequently be published in the online Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance. Please go to http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/cjlg/index for information about the journal.