Governing sustainability / edited by W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan.

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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xviii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780521518758 (hardback : alk. paper)
052151875X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780521732437 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0521732433 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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333.7 22
338.927 22

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GE170 .G686 2009

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Table of contents only

Contents:

Sustainability: exploring the processes and outcomes of governance / W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan -- Human development and environmental governance: a reality check / Katrina Brown -- Governance, government and the pursuit of sustainability / Albert Weale -- How do environmental actors make governance systems more sustainable? The role of politics and ideas in policy change / Philip Lowe and Katy Wilkinson -- Global governance for sustainable capitalism? The political economy of global environmental governance / Matthew Paterson -- Citizens, citizenship and governance for sustainability / Andy Dobson -- The governance of science for sustainability / Jill Jäger -- Practitioner evaluations of participatory processes in environmental decision making / Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark -- Participation, precaution and reflexive governance for sustainable development / Andy Stirling -- Precaution and the governance of risk / Ortwin Renn -- Economics and the governance of sustainable development / Simon Dietz and Eric Neumayer -- Sustainability: welfare and value and time / John O'Neill -- Reflections on the pathways to sustainability / Tim O'Riordan.

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