Greening governance [electronic resource] : an evolutionary approach to policy making for a sustainable built environment / [Ellen Maria van Bueren].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bueren, Ellen van.

Series:

Sustainable urban areas ; 30.

Sustainable urban areas, 1574-6410 ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable construction.

Environmental policy.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : IOS Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After twenty years of sustainable building policies, the issue of environmental impact of buildings and urban environments remains. Policy makers still have difficulties addressing the ambiguous, contested and dynamic goals encapsulated in the term 'sustainable development'. How to decide between using zinc or PVC gutters, when knowledge and valuation of environmental risks of both keep changing? How can we accommodate urban growth, now that compact cities turn out to be urban heat islands? Greening governance identifies how policy makers can deal with these contested questions. The book draws on policy network theories that consider stakeholder interaction, negotiation and learning as conditions for policy success. By understanding these conditions from an evolutionary viewpoint it provides a new perspective for governance. The concepts of generative variety, selective retention and regeneration will help policy makers to prioritise and select contested alternatives while also focusing on more long term and ambitious policy goals. The book is of interest to policy makers and scientists concerned with both the practical and theoretical issues of sustainable built environments.

Contents:

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

The unsettling success of governance for sustainable building

Introduction

The sustainability performance of the built environment

The performance of sustainable building policies in the Netherlands

Explaining policy success and unease: the ambiguity of sustainable development

How to design policies addressing ambiguous, multi-actor problems?

Research questions

Policies in support of a sustainable built environment

A brief history of environmental awareness

How sustainable development changed environmental policy making

A redefined relationship between environment and construction

Changes in public policies addressing construction and environment

Challenges for policy makers

Suggested policy improvements: will they work?

Policy networks: a theoretical perspective on policy making

A single-actor perspective on policy making

Taking the multi-actor context into account

Policy networks as forms of collaborative governance

Analysing policy networks

Towards prescription: governing network governance

Promises and pitfalls of meta-governance

Conclusion

Evaluating an evolutionary policy network approach to learning

Evaluation in policy network approaches

Learning within policy networks

Policy learning and policy change

An evolutionary perspective to policy learning

Learning as processes of variation, selection and retention

Discussion and reflection

Methodology

Research methodology

Case selection

Research steps and operationalisation

Reducing diffuse zinc emisssions

Introduction to the policy

The policy process arrangements dealing with zinc

The policy issue and its environment

Issues in the policy process.

Arenas in the policy process

Policy networks in the policy process

Some first observations

Perceptions and strategies in the policy process

Perceptions

Strategies in the policy process

The lessons learned

Evaluating the learning from an evolutionary perspective

Conclusions

Stimulating sustainable building

The policy process

Issues in the policy process

Networks in the policy process

Arenas in the policy process

Restricting urban sprawl

Reconstruction of the policy process

Some observations about the policy environment

Greening governance: lessons for policy design

An evolutionary perspective to learning in policy networks

Learning in the policy processes

Variety in the policy process

Selection in the policy process

Retention in the policy process: preservation

Retention in the policy process: regeneration

Conclusions for policy making

Theoretical reflection and future research

References

Appendix I. Methodology for Chapter 6

Appendix II. Methodology for Chapter 7

Appendix III. Methodology for Chapter 8

Appendix IV. Greening governance in practice: A serious game for sustainable urban renewal

Supporting sustainable decision-making in urban renewal projects.

The modelling environment for design impact assessment (MEDIA)

The DUBES game

Findings and insights

How the evolutionary approach influenced the game design

Summary and conclusion

Summary (English)

Summary (Dutch)

Curriculum Vitae.

Notes:

"Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Technische Universiteit Delft ..."

Summary in Dutch: p. 317-323.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-270, 306-309).

ISBN:

6612880406

1-282-88040-3

9786612880407

1-60750-595-9

OCLC:

670512249