The following publications concern sustainable development, particularly with regard to transport, food and environmental justice. Where possible, they are available here to download for free.

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Site updated 17th April  2007
 
Love Your Bike Report Love Your Bike - Stepping Up a Gear
Report and Recommendations One Year On

Manchester Friends of the Earth 2007

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report higher resolution 6mb

Talking Transport: Involving Residents in Transport Planning
Sherriff, G. (2006) for Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Organisation (GMCVO)

full report 1.39mb

The Human Ecology of Urban Food: Understanding Environmental Justice Through Participative Research in Community Projects
Sherriff, G. (2005) PhD Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005

various options for downloading
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Von alten Ansprüchen und neuen Anforderungen
Schäfer, M. and G. Sherriff. (2005) . In Ökologie & Landbau 3/2005

An exploration of work within the sustainable agriculture movement towards higher social standards, such as pay and conditions, in sustainable agriculture. In German.
Permaculture and Productive Urban Landscapes
Sherriff, G. (2005) In: Viljoen, A. Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes, London, Architectural Press

This book chapter follows a conference presentation at ‘Urban Nature 2’, London, 2001. It introduces the reader to permaculture and makes a case for the importance of permaculture principles when planning for food production in urban areas.

 

Eating Well in Stockport
Sherriff, G. (2004) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

A report written for Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) that discusses the issue of access to food, linking it particularly with recent national policy drives from the Government (Social Exclusion Unit 2003) and health and planning policy within Stockport and Greater Manchester. The document includes a case study in Adswood and Bridgehall, an area of Stockport that is a focus for regeneration work.  The case study uses participative research methods to identify problems of food access experienced by residents. The report ends with a discussion of how SMBC can take this forward, based on two practitioner workshops conducted towards the end of the study.

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Better Buses and Safer Streets for Longsight
Bullock, S. and Sherriff G. (2003) London, Friends of the Earth.

A report documenting the award-winning (Friends of the Earth 'Earth Mover's' award) Longsight Transport Project. It documents the participative approaches used during the project, the results of the research and suggests policy options for solving the problems identified by residents Following the publication, this work has been taken forward by the Longsight Transport Project.

full report (1.5mb pdf)

Tackling Permaculture in the UK
Sherriff, G. (2002) In: Urban Agriculture Magazine

Written for a special issue of Urban Agriculture Magazine that looked at the transition to ecological urban agriculture, this article introduces the idea of permaculture and explores the value of this approach to food growing in urban areas.

full article (140kb pdf)

 

Website Logo Edible Ecosystems in Sustainable Agriculture: A Study of Permaculture in Britain
Sherriff, G. (2001) Masters Degree Dissertation

Based on an extensive national survey of permaculture projects, this dissertation identified key themes and tensions within the permaculture movement as a whole to inform a wide discussion of the role of permaculture in sustainable agriculture.

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info
Graeme is a researcher and campaigner based in Manchester and train station coffee shops.
email: Graeme Sherriff
a full CV is available (pdf)

other activities
These links take you to websites of organisations for which Graeme feels some responsibilty:

Manchester FoE link
(transport campaign coordinator, newsletter editor)
Transport Longsight
(project worker)
On The Move
(presenter)
Love Your Bike
(co-ordinator)

Please note that you will need to download Adobe Acrobat to be able to read most of the publications on this site.