Record Nr.

UNINA9910147093703321

Autore

Lundqvist Lennart <1939->

Titolo

Sweden and ecological governance : straddling the fence / / Lennart J. Lundqvist

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2004
Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018]
©2004

ISBN


9786610734689
9781847796080
1847796087
9781526137678
1526137674
9781781700549
1781700540
9781280734687
128073468X
9781847790941
1847790941
9781423706663
1423706668

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Issues in Environmental Politics

Disciplina

333.709485

Soggetti

Environmental policy - Sweden

Sustainable development - Sweden

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 Where the grass is greener: criteria for ecologically rational governance -- 2 'Nested enterprises'? Spatial dimensions of ecological governance -- 3 Up or down with the ecology cycle? Strategies for temporally rational ecological governance -- 4 The commons of governing: the knowledge base of ecological governance -- 5 Governing in common - integration

and effectiveness in ecological governance -- 6 Democracy and ecological governance - a balancing act -- 7 Where the buck stops: governmental power and authority in democratic ecological governance -- 8 Straddling the fence: on the possibility of sustainability and democracy in advanced industrial nations -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether it is possible to move form a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the ‘Sustainable Sweden’ programme. It begins by looking at the spatial dimensions of ecological governance, and goes on to consider the integration and effectiveness of sustainable development policies. The book analyses 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. It offers the latest word in advanced implementation of sustainable development.