Sustainable development and subnational governments
Subtitle: policy making and multi-level interactions
By: edited by Hans Bruyninckx, Sander Happaerts, Karoline van den Brande
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230360525
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development; Government policy; Sustainable development; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Regional planning; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The social and political construction of sustainable development in Quebec : a critical analysis of the Quebec sustainable development policy / René Audet and Corinne Gendron; title: Inclusive governance or incrementalism? : the choice of a sustainable development governance model for Flanders / Kris Bachus and Sophie Spillemaeckers; title: Sustainable development policies in the Basque Country / Alberto de la Peña and Iñaki Barcena; title: Sustainable development in Wallonia : trial and error along two tracks of governance / Sander Happaerts; title: Governance for sustainable development in the German Bundesländer / Kirsten Jörgensen; title: Dutch provincial sustainable development policies : ambitions and differences / Frans Coenen; title: Spanish subnational involvement in multi-level sustainable development issues / Kenneth Hanf and Francesc Morata; title: A "responsibility" to act globally : investigating the Welsh assembly government's engagement in nrg4SD / Elin Royles; title: Routes to global decision-making : Flanders in the UN and OECD discussions on sustainable development / Karoline Van den Brande; title: Subnational involvement in EU policy-making : the case of Scottish flood risk management / Anna-Lena Högenauer; title: Green paradiplomacy in North America : successes and limits of the NEG-ECP / Annie Chaloux and Stéphane Paquin; title: The state of sustainable development : perspectives from the subnational level / Sander Happaerts, Hans Bruyninckx and Karoline Van den Brande.