Changing Things--Moving People
Subtitle: Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Development at the Local Level (Priority Programme Environment, Themenhefte)
Contributors: Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz (Editor); Heinz Gutscher (Editor)
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780817662523
Subjects: Sustainable development; Community development; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Switzerland; Development - Economic Development; Energy policy
Description: "Traditionally, environmental policy in most countries is based on command and control and - to a lesser extent - on the more modern economic instruments. Today, there is a strong need for complementing this traditional policy with a set of approaches that rely on communication and informal influence to stimulate voluntary and cooperative action. The comprehensive and analytical description of these approaches and the related instruments presented in this book extend environmental policy thinking by in-depth treatment of tools for communication and diffusion, collaborative agreements, as well as service and infrastructure instruments. The different types of approaches and instruments are described in detail from an actor-oriented perspective."

"The persent work originates in a broad inter- and trans-disciplinary cooperation among academic scientists, researchers in private consultancy firms, and beneficiaries of the research, i.e., decision-makers in politics, public administration, companies, and non-governmental organisations. In a special chapter, the methods and procedures applied to developing integrated research results as well as to organising cooperation and communication with non-academic project partners are described and evaluated." "The book addresses scholars from different disciplines - mainly experts in political, economic, social, and behavioural sciences - as well as educated lay persons interested in modern sustainability policy."--Jacket.