Description |
ix, 251 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Pt. I. Approaching Institutional Change and Policy Learning -- 1. Conceptions of institutions and policy learning -- 2. Operationalizing learning -- Pt. II. Case Studies in Institutional Change -- 3. Environmental policy in the European Union -- 4. Sustainable management of natural and physical resources: The New Zealand Resource Management Act 1991 -- 5. National councils for sustainable development: Experiments in national policy development and integration -- 6. Strategic environmental assessment: Policy integration as practice or possibility? -- 7. Property rights instruments: Transformative policy options -- Pt. III. Conclusions -- 8. Principles and elements of institutional change for sustainable development |
Summary |
"Institutional Change for Sustainable Dvelopment presents a flexible, accessible, yet robust conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of institutional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. The framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant areas of institutional and policy change: environmental policy in the EU; New Zealand's landmark Resource Management Act; strategic environmental assessment; emerging National Councils for Sustainable Development; and transformative property rights instruments. From these explorations, key principles for institutional change are identified, including the institutional accommodation of a sustainability discourse, the interdependence of normative and institutional change; reiteration and learning; integration in policy and practice; subsidiarity; and legal change"--Dust jacket |
Notes |
3 simultaneous users |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index |
Notes |
"This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers and practitioners concerned with sustainability, resource management and environmental policy."--BOOK JACKET |
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Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
Subject |
Industrial management -- Environmental aspects.
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Organizational change.
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Sustainable development.
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Environmental policy.
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Author |
Dovers, Stephen.
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Land & Water Australia.
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LC no. |
2003049267 |
ISBN |
1843765691 |
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