Governance for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function

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Governance for Sustainable Development

The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function

Edited by

William M. Lafferty

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This book is an original study of the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. It highlights the obstacles which sustainable development presents for strategic governance and critically examines how these problems can best be overcome in a variety of different political contexts.

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Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction: Form and Function in Governance for Sustainable Development
Chapter 2: Implementation Theory and the Challenge of Sustainable Development: The Transformative Role of Learning
Chapter 3: Adapting Form to Function? From Economic to Sustainable Development Governance in the European Union
Chapter 4: Management by Objectives: 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 Involvement
Chapter 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 Implications
Index

Monograph Book

Published:: 28 Sep 2004

Print ISBN:: 9781843767695

eISBN:: 9781845421700

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781845421700

Pages:: 400

Collection:: Social And Political Science 2010 and before

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