Sustainability in European Environmental Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge

by Atkinson; Rob

• ISBN13: 9780415562898
• ISBN10: 0415562899
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge. It provides an assessment of the EU sustainability strategy and concentrates on three key directives: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Emissions Trading (ET) and Air Pollution control.Sustainability in European Environmental Policy develops an innovative analytical model for the study of governance for sustainability, focusing on the potential synergies between new governance modes and different forms of knowledge. This cross national and comparative volume features research on nine European countries and focuses on topics including governance, spatial planning and networks in the context of sustainability policy and its development within UK, Germany, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Greece and Norway.Making an important contribution to debates on governance, sustainability, knowledge and policy, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, environmental studies, Urban Studies and European studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. xv
List of contributors	p. xvii
List of abbreviations	p. xxi
Introduction: Governance, knowledge and sustainability - an introduction and overview	p. 1
Sustainability and knowledge: European environmental policy and the challenge of sustainability in a multilevel system	p. 11
The place of knowledge in policy-making processes: an assessment of three EU environmental policy instruments	p. 33
Governance and knowledge: how do they interact? Conceptual propositions	p. 52
The cognitive turn in political science	p. 77
The zone of knowledge transactions: recent tendencies in knowledge production, knowledge sharing and the trading of knowledge from a socio-spatial perspective	p. 94
Theories of discourse and narrative: what do they mean for governance and policy?	p. 115
Strategic environmental assessment, strategic spatial planning and the politics of local knowledge	p. 131
How great expectations in Brussels are dashed in GroBkrotzenburg: the impacts of reflective knowledge demonstrated in an empirical case of implementing the EU emissions trading scheme	p. 147
Governance, knowledge and policy networks in Strategic Environmental Assessment	p. 164
Governing knowledge for sustainability: an appropriate research heuristic or too complex for reality?	p. 188
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