Product Description: The authors present case studies from innovative and diverse municipalities in Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the United States. The studies document problems these communities encountered while implementing new ideas in energy conservation, changes in energy supply, and municipal planning...read more

Product Description: The authors present case studies from innovative and diverse municipalities in Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the United States. The studies document problems these communities encountered while implementing new ideas in energy conservation, changes in energy supply, and municipal planning...read more

Product Description: Radical new technologies are developing in Western societies at ever-increasing rates but contemporary democracies often lack the appropriate organizational forms to confront these developments. Creative Democracy discusses the failure of politicians and democratic institutions to cope with modern challenges, and proposes a specific strategy to address these problems in contemporary society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: '...the editors have done an excellent job of shaping the collection. Most of the essays are easy to comprehend, have minimal polemical content on a topic that lends itself to rhetoric, and are dominated by ideas. This book is a good introduction and statement of current thought on the promotion of self-management as the basis for the organization of production...read more