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Governance for sustainable development : the challenge of adapting form to function / edited by William M. Lafferty.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development.
- Sustainable development--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (396 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study on the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. Given that sustainable development involves a number of new challenges for strategic governance, the authors examine how these obstacles can be overcome in different political contexts.
- Contents:
- Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: form and function in governance for sustainable development; Chapter 2: Implementation theory and the challenge of sustainable development: the tranformative role of learning; Chapter 3: Adapting form to function?: from economic to sustainable development governance in the European Union; Chapter 4: Management by objectives and results: a comparison of Dutch, Swedish and EU strategies for realising sustainable development; Chapter 5: 'Sustainability is cool': rhetorical participatory discourse in the Spanish strategy for sustainable development
- Chapter 6: Participation and sustainable development: modes of citizen, community and organisational involvementChapter 7: From environmental protection to sustainable development: the challenge of decoupling through sectoral integration; Chapter 8: Partners for progress?: the role of business in transcending business as usual; Chapter 9: Governance by diffusion: implementing global norms through cross-national imitation and learning; Chapter 10: Implementing sustainable development: how to know what works, where, when and how
- Chapter 11: Governance for sustainable development: lessons and implicationsIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-19910-6
- 9786613199102
- 1-84542-170-1
- OCLC:
- 751692415
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