Sustainability and Short-term Policies: Improving Governance in Spatial Policy Interventions

ISBN-13: 9781409446774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 350 str.

Stefan Sjoblom;Kjell Andersson;Terry Marsden

Opis

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years. Traditional hierarchical government has been challenged by new governance instruments relying on negotiations instead of command and control. Alongside this development there has been a change in the time-framing of politics and steering. Traditional politics implicitly has been based on stability and permanence while new forms of governance explicitly are based on just-in-time actions such as projects and issue-based collaborations in networks and programs. This book analyses the implications of this shortening of time frames, focusing particularly on spatial policy interventions. Spatial policies have a special relevance when it comes to governance and new forms of societal steering. On the one hand, the local (geographical) level in politics is the principal battleground for the struggle between top down and bottom up approaches and aspirations. On the other hand, many of the most burning issues of our time require a global, strategic approach, for example, climate change, resource depletion, population growth are anchored in space and the physical world. Whether and how short-term spatial approaches can achieve sustainable development outcomes is thus a critical question, and forms the focus of this volume. The book examines the characteristics of temporary policy measures across a range of rural, urban and regional contexts, in four continents: Europe, North America, Oceania and Africa. The outcomes and effects of these policies and interventions are analysed, particularly focusing on the tension between short-term interventions and long-term effects.

Spis treści

1: Introduction: Exploring Short-termism and Sustainability: Temporal Mechanisms in Spatial Policies; I: Temporary Policy Measures; 2: Leader as a Means for Strengthening Rural Development Capacity: From Project Output to the Embedding of Outcomes; 3: To Be or Not to Be… Political? Development Discourse, Participatory Instruments and Programme-Based Approach to Public Action in Tunisia; 4: The Democratic Implications of Project Organisations – A Case Study of Leader-Projects in Finland; 5: Temporary Guides and Long Term Policy Challenges: The View From Remote Australia; II: Effects and Outcomes; 6: Overcoming Short-termism? Building Sustainable Eco-clusters in Rural Devon; 7: The Need to Shift Rural Community Development from Projects Towards Resilience: International Implications of Findings in Scotland; 8: Understanding Short-termism: Development Policies in Paris, Budapest and their Surrounding Settlements; 9: Temporal Dimensions of Governance: A Critical Analysis of Projects; 10: Mobilizing Civil Society for Environmental Protection in a Context Dominated by Industrial Agriculture: Avoiding Projects; III: Intermediaries in Spatial Policy Interventions; 11: Institutions and Networks in Rural Development: Two Case Studies from Hungary; 12: Wind Energy Exchanges and Rural Development in Italy; 13: From Business to Territorial and Social Networks in Rural Development? Experiences from Rural Valencia (Spain); 14: Conclusion: Progressing from Governance Challenges to Approaching ‘Must Hit' Spatial Policy Targets

O autorze

Stefan Sjöblom, Professor in Local Administration, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland, Kjell Andersson, Professor in Rural Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, Terry Marsden, Professor, City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK and Sarah Skerratt, Senior Researcher, Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), Edinburgh, UK.