In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: New governance practices at the sub-national level in Europe by Katarina Eckerberg, Susan Baker (Hardcover, 2008)
The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development. Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies in the 1990s. Implementation efforts are increasingly using 'new' governance arrangements, including: use of public/private partnerships new policy tools policy transfer and benchmarking policy networks and involvement of stakeholder groups and institutional capacity enhancement. The editors, whom are leading experts on the subject, explore the nature, extent and characteristics of the new governance arrangements that have been put in place to implement sustainable development strategies and initiatives at the sub-national levels. They also examine the approaches that sub-national governments adopted towards the mobilization of 'stakeholders' in these initiatives and what type of non-governmental actors have become involved. In Pursuit of Sustainable Development will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, development, geography, planning and social policy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415419109
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95051960
Product Key Features
Author
Katarina Eckerberg, Susan Baker
Publication Name
In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: New Governance Practices at the Sub-National Level in Europe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
522g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Routledge/Ecpr Studies in European Political Science