Achieving Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Governance Across Social Scales

by Bressers, Hans Th. A.; Rosenbaum, Walter A.

• ISBN13: 9780275978020
• ISBN10: 0275978028
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

Bressers, Rosenbaum, and their contributors analyze what, until recently, has been among the least examined issues implicit in the growing global discourse about sustainable development: the creation of institutions and processes for effective governance of sustainability policies. The creation and endurance of governance institutions capable of implementing sustainability policies is, in fact, fundamental for any viable conception of sustainable development. The writers focus particularly upon the special problem embedded in the sustainability paradigm, that of organizing governance "across scales"--that is to say, across and between geographic, political, ecological, or other social levels in a sustainable regime. In recent years the scale problem has emerged as a major and enlarging concern, as international efforts proliferate to implement various sorts of sustainability policies. The analyses focus not only on how societies can organize, but on how they do organize to overcome such daunting obstacles. The analyses place considerable emphasis upon the history and lessons to be learned from ongoing efforts to achieve such governance in several diverse international settings including the Netherlands, the Northwest United States, Costa Rica, Madagascar, Senegal, and the European Union.

Author Biography

HANS TH. A. BRESSERS is Professor of Policy Studies and Environmental Policy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and Scientific Director of the Center for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy there. His work has appeared in more than 200 articles, chapters, reports, papers, and books.WALTER A. ROSENBAUM is Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. In addition to writing numerous articles and books concerned with environmental and energy policymaking, he has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Preface	ix
I. Introduction	1	(24)
1 Social Scales, Sustainability, and Governance: An Introduction	3	(22)
Hans Th. A. Bressers and Walter A. Rosenbaum
II. The Significance of Social Scales: Visions and Concepts	25	(64)
2 Globalization and Sustainable Development	27	(16)
José Luis Toscano
3 Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods	43	(22)
Parakh Hoon and Goran Hyden
4 What Does "Governance" Mean? From Conception to Elaboration	65	(24)
Hans Th. A. Bressers and Stefan M.M. Kuks
III. The Imperative for Multilevel Governance in Sustainable Development	89	(122)
5 Sustainable Development, Political Institutions, and Scales: The Management of Pacific Salmon	91	(18)
J. Samuel Barkin and Cassandra Moseley
6 Managing Water Resources in Florida and the Netherlands: The Impact of National Orientations on Multiscale Governance	109	(26)
Stefan M.M. Kuks and Hans Th. A. Bressers
7 Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Resource Management through Institutional Syncretism in Madagascar and Senegal	135	(30)
Dennis Galvan and Richard Marcus
8 Building from the Center Out: Decentralizing Environmental Policy Making in Costa Rica	165	(20)
John Bolus and Renée J. Johnson
9 Local Autonomy and Environmental Justice: Implementing Distributional Equity across National Scales	185	(26)
Frans H.J.M. Coenen and Angela C. Halfacre
IV. The Impact of Multilevel Governance on Policy Making for Sustainability	211	(116)
10 Multilevel Governance and Food Biotechnology in the European Union	213	(22)
M. Leann Brown
11 Sustainable Electricity Supply in the European Union: Reconciling Different Scales of Governance	235	(22)
Maarten Arentsen and Valentina Dinica
12 Multilevel Governance Networks and the Use of Policy Instruments in the European Union	257	(24)
Kenneth I. Hanf and Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr.
13 The Impact of Policy Style on Policy Choice across Scales: The EU Experience	281	(26)
Theo de Bruijn
14 Implementing Environmental Regulations across Governance Scales in the EU	307	(20)
Kris Lulofs, Alexandra Bultmann, Malcolm Eames, Simone Schucht, and Frank Wätzold
Index	327	(8)
About the Contributors	335