
Environment and Sustainability
A Policy Handbook
Stephen Dovers(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 30. June 2020
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-138-42447-0 (ISBN)
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Description
Includes perspectives from policy theory and practice, expands the coverage of international dimensions of trade and regulation and incorporates coverage of issues and policy challenges such as climate mitigation and adaptation, urban sustainability, and the nexus between climate change, energy and water.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
CRC Press
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-138-42447-0 (9781138424470)
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07/2013
2nd Edition
Routledge
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Person
Dovers, Stephen
Content
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I - POLICY AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter 1: Orientation and Introduction -- Environment or sustainability: Implications -- How green is this book: Process versus product -- Policy targets explored: Environment and sustainability -- Towards an "environmental civics" -- Policy and institutions: Terms and definitions -- Context matters -- Organisation of the book, and sources -- Chapter 2: Thinking about Policy -- Public policy analysis: Why, who and how? -- Policy studies -- Policy analysis -- Enduring questions in policy analysis -- Policy analysis as handmaiden? -- Policy: rational or non-rational? -- Politics, values and the state -- Problem definition -- Authority and decision-making -- Policy instrument choice -- Policy learning -- Role and use of information in policy -- Multi-level governance -- Costs and capacity -- Policy change and policy choice -- Public policy: Responsibility and governments -- Policy failure and learning: Being "adaptive" -- Chapter 3: Environment and Sustainability as Policy and Institutional Problem -- The emergence and meaning of sustainability -- Issues versus problems: The attributes of sustainability problems -- Policy and institutional challenges -- Responses thus far -- Beyond rhetoric: Before and after the "policy statement" -- Chapter 4: Policy Cycles and Models, Environment and Sustainability -- Policy: Rational or chaotic? -- Two policy models -- A framework for policy description, analysis and prescription -- The elements in summary -- General elements -- Using the framework: The value of checklists -- Knowledge and policy processes -- The rest of the book -- PART II - CHECKLISTS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR POLICY ANALYSIS -- Chapter 5: Problem-framing -- STAGE I: Problem-framing -- Element 1: Sustainability as social goal, and the nature of debate -- Element 2: Monitoring topicality -- Elements 3-4: Monitoring change in natural and human systems -- Element 5: Identify proximate and underlying causes -- Element 6: Assess ignorance, uncertainty and risk -- Element 7: Assess the policy environment -- Element 8: Defining policy problems -- Chapter 6: Policy-framing -- STAGE II: Policy-framing -- Element 9: Guiding principles for environment and sustainability policy -- Element 10: The policy statement -- Element 11: Measurable policy goals -- Chapter 7: Policy implementation -- STAGE III: Policy implementation -- Element 12: Policy instrument choice -- Policy instruments and criteria for choice -- Systemic instruments -- Element 13: Implementation plan -- Element 14: Communication and information plan -- Element 15: Statutory, institutional and resource requirements -- Element 16: Enforcement and compliance -- Element 17: Policy monitoring provisions -- Chapter 8: Policy Monitoring and Evaluation -- STAGE IV: Policy monitoring and evaluation -- Elements 18-19: Monitoring sustainability policy -- Elements 18-19: Data requirements - environmental and policy monitoring -- Element 20: Review and evaluation, and policy change -- Policy or problem change: Adaptation and learning -- Transferring policy lessons -- Chapter 9: Participation, Transparency and Accountability -- General elements in policy processes -- Public participation -- The logic of participation: How much is enough? -- Exclusion through inclusion -- The "public" and the "community" -- Purposes and kinds of participation -- Deliberative and related methods -- Transparency and accountability -- PART III - PROSPECTS FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY POLICY -- Chapter 10: Coordination, Integration and Institutional Change -- Policy coordination across sectors and jurisdictions -- Scale and subsidiarity -- Policy integration methods: Ecological, social and economic -- Institutional change for sustainability -- Principles for institutional change -- Concluding comment: Prospects for environmental and sustainability policy -- Bibliography -- Index.