Contribution of Local Agenda 21 to Practical Implementation of Sustainable Development: The Case of the Czech Republic

Resource-based view of sustainability engagement

“…They showed that being an LA21 frontrunner was correlated with municipal size, the regional government (province) where the municipality is situated, and membership of international networks, which positively influences the local sustainability outcome. Kveton et al (2014) evaluated the contribution of LA21 to the implementation of SD in practice in the Czech Republic by distinguishing municipalities with and without LA21. They found that municipalities with LA21 seemed to perform better in some environmental and economic indicators.…”

How green growth is adopted by local policy – a comparative study of ten second-rank cities in Sweden

“…Local Agenda 21 encourages local authorities to engage local social actors (e.g. the local population, businesses and NGOs) in dialogue, collaboration, and initiatives (Kveton, Louda, Slavik, & Pelucha, 2014;Wittmayer, van Steenbergen, Rok, & Roorda, 2016). In Swedenwhich is the empirical context for this papermost municipalities set up Local Agenda 21 offices to implement this policy.…”

Integrated Community Sustainability Planning in Atlantic Canada: Green-Washing an Infrastructure Agenda

“…Krause, Feiock, and Hawkins (2014) suggested that sustainability has become an increasingly common objective for local government. Indeed, sustainability initiatives have appeared across Europe (Adolfsson Jörby 2002;Kveton et al 2014;Smardon 2008) and in many US cities (Jepson 2004;Portney 2005). Yet some communities have not taken up sustainability (Holman 2014).…”