On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 from 10:00 - 11:00am EDT, the Inclusive Local Economies Program of the Metcalf Foundation presents a webinar entitled, Local Economic Development as if People and the Planet Mattered.
Elizabeth Cox works for the New Economics Foundation (nef), the UK’s largest “think and do” tank focused on improving quality of life by promoting innovative solutions to economic, environmental, and social issues.
Elizabeth will share nef’s approach to supporting local economic development in communities across the UK and internationally called Plugging the Leaks. This approach moves beyond getting more money into the local economy through tourism, inward investment, or funding. It re-generates the local economy from within, and takes advantage of the resources that a community already possesses. A plugging the leaks approach is built around supporting community-based action towards developing a more sustainable local economy. Elizabeth will be interviewed by Mary Rowe of the Municipal Arts Society of New York, and Metcalf Foundation Advisor.
This is the first in a new monthly webinar series focused on how we build resilient local economies. It is a forum for communication, collaboration, and innovation focused on creating resilient local economies. It is a initiative of the Metcalf Foundation and the Centre for City Ecology https://cityecology.net/
To register for this webinar please contact Heather Dunford at hdunford@metcalffoundation.com by Tuesday, October 2.
For more information about Plugging the Leaks please see www.pluggingtheleaks.org. To learn more about the New Economics Foundation go to www.neweconomics.org.
The webinar will be recorded and posted on the Metacalf website
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More About Elizabeth Cox
Elizabeth Cox is an economist who leads on nef’s UK and international local economic development work, and manages international partnerships. Her work ranges from design and delivery of action research on enterprise and local economic development to support practical community action in the UK and internationally (BizFizz, Local Alchemy and Plugging the Leaks), developing approaches to help public bodies to embed social, economic and environmental outcomes throughout their commission process, to research on resilience. New areas of research include developing a low carbon, high well-being economic development model, and developing with civic society organisations a global south hub network to support, to debate, and practically apply new economics in India and South Africa.
Prior to joining nef in 2003, Elizabeth worked as a policy advisor within the Ministry of Agriculture in Guyana for four years, and was responsible for the oversight of poverty alleviation programmes and the design of participatory monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and as a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen lecturing in economic development.
