Sweden and Ecological Governance - Straddling the Fence

Informationen zum Autor Lennart J. Lundqvist is Professor of Environmental Politics and Administration in the Department of Political Science at Goteborg University Klappentext This is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether it is possible to move form a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the 'Sustainable Sweden' programme. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Where the grass is greener: criteria for ecologically rational governance2. 'Nested enterprises'? Spatial dimensions of ecological governance3. Up or down with the ecology cycle? Strategies for temporally rational ecological governance4. The commons of governing - the knowledge base of ecological governance5. Governing in common - integration and effectiveness in ecological governance 6. Democracy and ecological governance - a balancing act7. Where the buck stops: governmental power and authority in democratic ecological governance 8. Straddling the fence: on the possibility of sustainability and democracy in advanced industrial nationsReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Lennart Lundqvist, Lennart J. Lundqvist
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780719069031
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6903-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Issues in Environmental Politi; Issues in Environmental Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Sweden, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies