Achieving Sustainable Development : The Challenge of Governance Across Social Scales

Bressers, Rosenbaum, and their contributors analyze what, until recently, has been among the least examined issues implicit in the growing global discourse about sustainable development: the creation of institutions and processes for effective governance of sustainability policies. The creation and...

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Main Author: Bressers, Hans T
Other Authors: Rosenbaum, Walter A, Rosenbaum, Walter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2003
Edition:1st ed
Series:Non-Series
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- 1 Social Scales, Sustainability, and Governance: An Introduction -- II. The Significance of Social Scales: Visions and Concepts -- 2 Globalization and Sustainable Development -- 3 Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods -- 4 What Does "Governance" Mean? From Conception to Elaboration -- III. The Imperative for Multilevel Governance in Sustainable Development -- 5 Sustainable Development, Political Institutions, and Scales: The Management of Pacific Salmon -- 6 Managing Water Resources in Florida and the Netherlands: The Impact of National Orientations on Multiscale Governance -- 7 Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Resource Management through Institutional Syncretism in Madagascar and Senegal -- 8 Building from the Center Out: Decentralizing Environmental Policy Making in Costa Rica -- 9 Local Autonomy and Environmental Justice: Implementing Distributional Equity across National Scales -- IV. The Impact of Multilevel Governance on Policy Making for Sustainability -- 10 Multilevel Governance and Food Biotechnology in the European Union -- 11 Sustainable Electricity Supply in the European Union: Reconciling Different Scales of Governance -- 12 Multilevel Governance Networks and the Use of Policy Instruments in the European Union -- 13 The Impact of Policy Style on Policy Choice across Scales: The EU Experience -- 14 Implementing Environmental Regulations across Governance Scales in the EU -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Contributors 
520 |a Bressers, Rosenbaum, and their contributors analyze what, until recently, has been among the least examined issues implicit in the growing global discourse about sustainable development: the creation of institutions and processes for effective governance of sustainability policies. The creation and endurance of governance institutions capable of implementing sustainability policies is, in fact, fundamental for any viable conception of sustainable development. The analyses focus not only on how societies can organize, but on how they do organize to overcome such daunting obstacles in the Netherlands, the Northwest United States, Costa Rica, Madagascar, Senegal, and the European Union. The writers focus particularly upon the special problem embedded in the sustainability paradigm, that of organizing governance across scales-that is to say, across and between geographic, political, ecological, or other social levels in a sustainable regime. In recent years the scale problem has emerged as a major and enlarging concern, as international efforts proliferate to implement various sorts of sustainability policies. The analyses focus not only on how societies can organize, but on how they do organize to overcome such daunting obstacles. The analyses place considerable emphasis upon the history and lessons to be learned from ongoing efforts to achieve such governance in several diverse international settings including the Netherlands, the Northwest United States, Costa Rica, Madagascar, Senegal, and the European Union 
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