Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-Making and Multi-Level Interactions

ISBN-13: 9780230360525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 269 str.

Hans Bruyninckx; Sander Happaerts; Karoline Van Den Brande

Opis

This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.

Spis treści

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.de la Peña & I.Barcena Sustainable Development in Wallonia: Trial and Error Along Two Tracks of Governance; S.Happaerts Governance for Sustainable Development in the German Bundesländer; K.Jörgensen 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.Högenauer 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

O autorze

RENÉ AUDET Associate Professor and Researcher at the Econoving Centre, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yveline, France KRIS BACHUS Sustainable Development Research Manager at HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society), K.U.Leuven, Belgium IÑAKI BARCENA HINOJAL Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Administration of the University of the Basque Country, Spain ANNIE CHALOUX École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP), Canada FRANS H.J.M. COENEN Senior Researcher at CSTM (the Twente Centre for Stu¬dies in Technology and Sustainable Development) at the Faculty of Management and Governance, University of Twente, the Netherlands ALBERTO DE LA PEÑA Lecturer in Political Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain CORINNE GENDRON Full Professor at the Department of Strategy, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada KENNETH HANF Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain ANNA-LENA HÖGENAUER Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands KIRSTEN JÖRGENSEN Lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany FRANCESC MORATA Professor of Political Science and Administration at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain STÉPHANE PAQUIN Professor at the École nationale d'administration publique, Canada ELIN ROYLES Lecturer at the Institute of Welsh Politics, Department of Inter¬national Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK SOPHIE SPILLEMAECKER Researcher at HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society), K.U.Leuven, Belgium EDWIN ZACCAI Full Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium