ISBN:
1282930044
,
9780415562898
,
9781136900662
,
9781282930049
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 200 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in European politics 68
Parallel Title:
Print version Sustainability in European Environmental Policy
DDC:
333.72094
Keywords:
Environmental policy
;
Sustainability
Abstract:
This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge. It provides an assessment of the EU sustainability strategy and concentrates on three key directives: Air Quality Management, Strategic Environmental Assessment, and the Emissions Trade System. The authors develop an innovative analytical model for the study of governance for sustainability, focusing on the potential synergies between new governance modes and different forms of knowledge. This cross national and comparative volume features research on nine Europea
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction: Governance, knowledge and sustainability - an introduction and overview; 1 Sustainability and knowledge: European environmental policy and the challenge of sustainability in a multilevel system; 2 The place of knowledge in policy-making processes: An assessment of three EU environmental policy instruments; 3 Governance and knowledge: How do they interact? Conceptual propositions; 4 The cognitive turn in political science
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The zone of knowledge transactions: Recent tendencies in knowledge production, knowledge sharing and the trading of knowledge from a socio-spatial perspective6 Theories of discourse and narrative: What do they mean for governance and policy?; 7 Strategic environmental assessment, strategic spatial planning and the politics of local knowledge; 8 How great expectations in Brussels are dashed in Großkrotzenburg: The impacts of reflective knowledge demonstrated in an empirical case of implementing the EU emissions trading scheme
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Governance, knowledge and policy networks in Strategic Environmental Assessment10 Governing knowledge for sustainability: An appropriate research heuristic or too complex for reality?; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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