Sustainable development, evaluation and policy making : theory, practise and quality assurance / edited by Anneke von Raggamby, Frieder Rubik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubik, Frieder.

Raggamby, Anneke von.

Series:

Evaluating sustainable development series

Evaluating sustainable development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Evaluation.

Sustainable development.

Sustainable development--Government policy.

Physical Description:

xxii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cn.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA. : Edward Elgar, 2012.

Summary:

The 15 chapters presented here by editors Raggamby (Ecological Institute, Germany) and Rubik (Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Germany) arise out of the work of a European research network on "Evaluating Policies for Sustainable Development." The cross-disciplinary group discusses and compares policy evaluation approaches related to social and ecological sustainability from a research perspective, as well as with regards to improving and applying evaluation methods and procedures in practice and improving feedback processes between evaluation and policy development. The book has been structured according to the policy-cycle, containing five sections addressing the relationship between sustainability and assessment, the role of evaluation and assessment during policy formulation, the role of assessment systems in sustainable policy implementation, monitoring and quality improvement schemes in policy reformulation, and the quality of evaluations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857932549

0857932543

OCLC:

775028541