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This paper explores the role of coalition building in the implementation of renewable-energy policy. Applying a discourse analysis framework to wind-energy development in the North West of England, two strong coalitions operating within the wind-energy development arena were identified. By combining this framework with a multicriteria assessment, it is revealed that each coalition had very different priorities during the evaluation of wind-energy schemes. Overall, only when offshore wind is evaluated are there elements of common ground. This technology therefore appears to offer a solution to sharp contrasts in discourse. Based on this assessment, it is concluded that the implementation of national energy-policy objectives is contingent upon the regional government developing coherent storylines to attract the support of as broad a coalition of stakeholders as possible.

In 2003, the UK Government adopted a target to reduce carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2050, a longer term commitment than is required under the Kyoto Protocol. Given that increasing low carbon generating capacity is essential to achieve the required carbon reductions, renewable energy policies are a central element of overall climate change policy. To facilitate the building of renewable capacity, greater responsibility has been placed upon the English regions, with the advent of regional sustainable energy strategies, though there remain many profound tensions between the liberalized UK energy system and the adoption of a more strategic approach to renewable energy at the regional scale. This paper uses a 'discourse analysis' framework to explore wind energy policy in the North West of England from the perspective of competing coalitions. In the light of this assessment, it is concluded that the implementation of national energy policy at regional and sub-regional scales can be considered as a process of coalition building, where Government is reliant on building partnership between state and non-state actors to achieve its objectives.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1 Defining well-being and Resilience in Education -- 1 Understanding the Concept of Child well-being: Domains, Dimensions and Discourses -- 2 The Concept of Resilience and Implications for Interventions in Schools -- 3 Well-being, Mental Health and the Student Population -- 4 Listening to Children: The Rights of the Child -- Section 2 The Role of Children and Young People in their Own well-being and Resilience -- 5 What does Resilience Mean to Children? -- 6 The Importance of Positive peer Relationships for Child well-being and Resilience -- 7 Mental Health in Digital Lives -- Section 3 Examples of Practice Interventions that Support Children and Young People's well-being and Resilience -- 8 Well-being and Outdoor Learning -- 9 The Role of Mindfulness in Supporting well-being in Young Children -- 10 Education and Social Work Working Collaboratively to Support Vulnerable Families: Benefits and Tensions -- 11 Solution-focused Resilience Work: From the Fantastical to the Real -- Section 4 Societal and Cultural Influences upon Children's and Young People's well-being and Resilience -- 12 The Flourishing Practitioner -- 13 Developing a Resilient Nation: Devolution and the Welsh Approach to Enhancing Well-being -- 14 Well-being as a Right: Challenging the Role of Educational Professionals in Supporting Children in Italian Schools -- 15 The Role of the Kindergarten in Children's well-being and Resilience: The Case of Norway -- Conclusion -- List of Support Organisations -- Index.

The Climate Change Act commits the UK Government to an ambitious 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; this paper provides a consumer focused framework to devise, inform and evaluate potential interventions to reduce energy demand and emissions in food supply chains. Adopting a Life cycle Assessment (LCA) framing we explore the relationship between production and consumption by reviewing trends in the food sector with implications for energy demand. Secondly, a multidisciplinary review of the literature on sustainable consumption is structured around the ISM (Individual, Social, Material Contexts) framework devised by Southerton et al., bringing insights from a range of theoretical perspectives. Combined, these frameworks complement LCA approaches to mapping and quantifying emissions hotspots in a supply chain in two ways. First, production and consumption must be considered with the 'consumer' interactive throughout, one of many factors affecting energy use at each stage, rather than restricted to the end of a supply chain. Second, when considering consumption patterns and how they might be changed, drawing on the insights of multiple disciplines allows for a fuller array of potential interventions to be identified. Given the complexity of the food system and the range of relevant sustainability goals, there are several areas in which the 'preferred trajectories' for 'more sustainable' consumption patterns are unclear, particularly where data on variation, causal relationships and longitudinal change is lacking. Technical and social understandings of 'desirable' change in the food sector must continue to be developed in parallel to achieve such challenging reductions in emissions.