Environment and Sustainability

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.