Sustainable development and subnational governments : policy-making and multi-level interactions / edited by Hans Bruyninckx, University of Leuven, Belgium, Sander Happaerts, University of Leuven, Belgium and Karoline Van den Brande, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruyninckx, Hans, 1964- editor.

Happaerts, Sander, 1983- editor.

Brande, Karoline van den, 1983- editor.

Bruce Alan Miller Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Government policy.

Sustainable development.

Regional planning.

Physical Description:

xxii, 269 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

This book highlights the activities of a category of actors understudied in the field of governance for sustainable development. Situated between the local and the national levels of governance, subnational government have significant responsibilities in key issues for sustainable development. Firstly, the book studies how these governments have taken up the challenge of designing sustainable development policies domestically. Secondly, it examines subnational involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development, with particular attention to the interactions that take place between multiple levels of governance. With new empirical material on the experiences of subnational governments in seven countries across Western Europe and North America, the contributors consider what challenges they are facing on the eve of Rio+20. Book jacket.

Contents:

The social and political construction of sustainable development in Quebec : a critical analysis of the Quebec sustainable development policy / René Audet and Corinne Gendron

Inclusive governance or incrementalism? : the choice of a sustainable development governance model for Flanders / Kris Bachus and Sophie Spillemaeckers

Sustainable development policies in the Basque Country / Alberto de la Peña and Iñaki Barcena

Sustainable development in Wallonia : trial and error along two tracks of governance / Sander Happaerts

Governance for sustainable development in the German Bundesländer / Kirsten Jörgensen

Dutch provincial sustainable development policies : ambitions and differences / Frans Coenen

Spanish subnational involvement in multi-level sustainable development issues / Kenneth Hanf and Francesc Morata

A "responsibility" to act globally : investigating the Welsh assembly government's engagement in nrg4SD / Elin Royles

Routes to global decision-making : Flanders in the UN and OECD discussions on sustainable development / Karoline Van den Brande

Subnational involvement in EU policy-making : the case of Scottish flood risk management / Anna-Lena Högenauer

Green paradiplomacy in North America : successes and limits of the NEG-ECP / Annie Chaloux and Stéphane Paquin

The state of sustainable development : perspectives from the subnational level / Sander Happaerts, Hans Bruyninckx and Karoline Van den Brande.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bruce Alan Miller Book Fund.

ISBN:

0230360521

9780230360525

OCLC:

774489559

Publisher Number:

99949948506