Sustainable development and subnational governments: policy-making and multi-level interactions

This book highlights the activities of a category of actors understudied in the field of governance for sustainable development. Situated between the localand the national level of governance, subnational governments have significant responsibilities in key issues for sustainable development. Firstly, the book studies how these governments have taken up the challenge of designing sustainable development policies domestically. Secondly, it examines subnational involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development, with particular attention to the interactions that take place between multiple levelsof governance. With new empirical material on the experiences of subnational governments in seven countries across Western Europe and North America, the contributors consider what challenges they are facing on the eve of Rio+20. INDICE: List of Tables.List of Figures.Preface; .E.Zaccai.Acknowledgements.List of Abbreviations.Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments; .K.Van den Brande., .H.Bruyninckx. & .S.Happaerts .PART I: SUBNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES.The Social and Political Construction of Sustainable Development in Quebec: A Critical Analysis of the Quebec Sustainable Development Policy; .R.Audet.& .C.Gendron.Inclusive Governance or Incrementalism? The Choice of a Sustainable Development Governance Model for Flanders; .K.Bachus.& .S.Spillemaeckers.Sustainable Development Policies in the Basque Country; .A.dela Pe̱a.&. I.Barcena.Sustainable Development in Wallonia: Trial and Error Along Two Tracks of Governance; .S.Happaerts.Governance for Sustainable Development in the German Bundesl̖nder; .K.JOrgensen.Dutch Provincial Sustainable Development Policies: Ambitions and Differences; .F.Coenen.PART II: MULTI-LEVEL INTERACTIONS IN A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT.Spanish Subnational Involvement in Multi-Level Sustainable Development Issues; .K.Hanf.& .F.Morata.A 'Responsibility' to Act Globally: Investigating the Welsh Assembly Government's Engagement in nrg4SD; .E.Royles.Routes to Global Decision-Making: Flanders in the UN and OECD Discussions on Sustainable Development; .K.Van den Brande.Subnational Involvement in EU Policy-Making: The Case of Scottish Flood Risk Management; .A.HOgenauer.Green Paradiplomacy in North America: Successes and Limits of the NEG-ECP; .A.Chaloux.& .S.Paquin.Conclusion.The State of Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Subnational Level; .K.Van den Brande., .S.Happaerts.& .H.Bruyninckx .Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-36052-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido