Lennart Lundqvist

Sweden and ecological governance

Straddling the fence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether it is possible to move form a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the 'Sustainable Sweden' programme.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 369g
• ISBN-13: 9780719069031
• ISBN-10: 0719069033
• Artikelnr.: 27429695

Autorenporträt

Lennart J. Lundqvist is Professor of Environmental Politics and Administration in the Department of Political Science at Goteborg University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Where the grass is greener: criteria for ecologically rational
governance 2. 'Nested enterprises'? Spatial dimensions of ecological
governance 3. Up or down with the ecology cycle? Strategies for temporally
rational ecological governance 4. The commons of governing - the knowledge
base of ecological governance 5. Governing in common - integration and
effectiveness in ecological governance 6. Democracy and ecological
governance - a balancing act 7. Where the buck stops: governmental power
and authority in democratic ecological governance 8. Straddling the fence:
on the possibility of sustainability and democracy in advanced industrial
nations References Index