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Informationen zum Autor Neil Adger is Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of East Anglia. Andrew Jordan is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of East Anglia. Klappentext Examines the inevitable social and political consequences that will arise from the move to a more sustainable world. Zusammenfassung A more sustainable world will require radical changes at all levels of society. This book examines these necessary processes and consequences across many important areas of concern! revealing that the governance of sustainable development is politically contested! and that it will continue to test existing governance systems to their limits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Overview and Context: 1. Sustainable development: exploring the processes and outcomes of governance W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan; 2. Human development and environmental governance: a reality check Katrina Brown; Part II. Governance and Government: 3. Government and the pursuit of governance for sustainability Albert Weale; 4. How do environmental actors make governance systems more sustainable? The role of politics and ideas in policy change Philip Lowe and Katy Wilkinson; 5. Global governance for sustainable capitalism? The political economy of global environmental governance Mat Paterson; Part III. Governance and Civil Society: 6. Citizens, citizenship and governance for sustainability Andy Dobson; 7. The governance of science for sustainability Jill Jäger; 8. Practitioner evaluations of participatory processes in environmental decision-making Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark; Part IV. Governance and Decision Making: 9. Participation, precaution and reflexive governance for sustainable development Andy Stirling; 10. Precaution and the governance of risk Ortwin Renn; 11. Economics and the governance of sustainable development Simon Dietz and Eric Neumayer; 12. Sustainability: welfare, value and time John O'Neill; Part V. Conclusions: 13. Reflections on the pathways to sustainability Tim O'Riordan....
