Sustainability in European environmental policy : challenges of governance and knowledge / / edited by Rob Atkinson, Georgios Terizakis, and Karsten Zimmermann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785450403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-90066-7; 1-282-93004-4; 9786612930041; 0-203-84171-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in European politics ; ; 68
• Altri autori (Persone): AtkinsonRob; TerizakisGeorgios <1975->; ZimmermannKarsten
• Disciplina: 333.72094
• Soggetti: Environmental policy - European Union countries; Sustainability - European Union countries
• 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: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction: Governance, knowledge and sustainability - an introduction and overview; 1 Sustainability and knowledge: European environmental policy and the challenge of sustainability in a multilevel system; 2 The place of knowledge in policy-making processes: An assessment of three EU environmental policy instruments; 3 Governance and knowledge: How do they interact? Conceptual propositions; 4 The cognitive turn in political science; 5 The zone of knowledge transactions: Recent tendencies in knowledge production, knowledge sharing and the trading of knowledge from a socio-spatial perspective6 Theories of discourse and narrative: What do they mean for governance and policy?; 7 Strategic environmental assessment, strategic spatial planning and the politics of local knowledge; 8 How great expectations in Brussels are dashed in ; Großkrotzenburg: The impacts of reflective knowledge demonstrated in an empirical case of implementing the EU emissions trading scheme; 9 Governance, knowledge and policy networks in Strategic Environmental Assessment10 Governing knowledge for sustainability: An appropriate research heuristic or too complex for reality?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge. It provides an assessment of the EU sustainability strategy and concentrates on three key directives: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Emissions Trading (ET) and Air Pollution control.Sustainability in European Environmental Policy develops an innovative analytical model for the study of governance for sustainability, focusing on the potential synergies between new governance modes and different forms of knowledge. This cross-nat