Policy Integration for Complex Environmental Problems
Subtitle: The Example of Mediterranean Desertification (Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780754642435
Subjects: Nature; Mediterranean Region; European Union countries; Nature/Ecology; Nature / Field Guide Books; Natural Resources; Europe; Management of land & natural resources; Environmental Science; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Desertification; Government policy; Land use
First sentence: After a long gestation period, two ideas, sustainable development and complexity, matured in the 1990s and moved to the top of political and scientific agendas, stirring multifarious theoretical and methodological discourses on how to better and more effectively deal with pressing contemporary societal problems.