Sweden and Ecological Governance : Straddling the Fence

by Lennart J. Lundqvist

• ISBN13: 9780719069024
• ISBN10: 0719069025
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-09-04
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book examines policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance, and uses the Swedish case study to ask if it is possible to move from a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the "Sustainable Sweden" program. The study begins by looking at the spatial dimensions of ecological governance, and goes on to consider the integration and effectiveness of sustainable development policies. It analyzes the tension between democracy and sustainable development, which has a broader relevance beyond the Swedish model, to other nation states as well as the European Union as a whole.

Author Biography

Lennart J. Lundqvist is Professor of Environmental Politics and Administration in the Deparment of Political Science at Goteborg University.

Table of Contents

Where the grass is greener: criteria for ecologically rational governance * Nested enterprises? spatial dimensions of ecological governance * Up or down with the ecology cycle? strategies for temporally rational ecological governance * The commons of governing -- the knowledge base of ecological governance * Governing in common - integration and effectiveness in ecological governance * Democracy and ecological governance - a balancing act * Where the buck stops: governmental power and authority in democratic ecological governance * Straddling the fence: on the possibility of sustainability and democracy in advanced industrial nations