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9780230360525

Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments Policy-Making and Multi-Level Interactions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230360525

  • ISBN10:

    0230360521

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-06-05
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.

Author Biography

Hans Bruyninckx is Director of HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society) and Professor of International at KU Leuven, Belgium. Sander Happaerts is Senior Research Associate at HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society), KU Leuven, Belgium.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figuresp. vii
Forewordp. viii
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
List of Abbreviationsp. xv
Notes on Contributorsp. xix
Introductionp. 1
Subnational Sustainable Development Policies
The Social and Political Construction of Sustainable Development in Quebec: A Critical Analysis of the Quebec Sustainable Development Policyp. 27
Inclusive Governance or Incrementalism? The Choice of a Sustainable Development Governance Model for Flandersp. 49
Sustainable Development Policies in the Basque Countryp. 67
Sustainable Development in Wallonia: Trial and Error along Two Tracks of Governancep. 85
Governance for Sustainable Development in the German Bundesländerp. 103
Dutch Provincial Sustainable Development Policies: Ambitions and Differencesp. 120
Multi-Level Interactions in a Sustainable Development Context
Spanish Subnational Involvement in Multi-Level Sustainable Development Issuesp. 141
A 'Responsibility' to Act Globally: Investigating the Welsh Assembly Government's Engagement in nrg4SDp. 160
Routes to Global Decision-Making: Flanders in the UN arid OECD Discussions on Sustainable Developmentp. 180
Subnational Involvement in EU Policy-Making: The Case of Scottish Flood Risk Managementp. 198
Green Paradiplomacy in North America: Successes and Limits of the NEG-ECP
Conclusion
The State of Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Subnational Levelp. 239
Indexp. 263
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