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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822504503321

Autore

Brulin Goran

Titolo

Managing sustainable development programmes : a learning approach to change / / by Goran Brulin and Lennart Svensson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, VT, : Gower Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-315-59364-5

1-317-10141-3

1-317-10140-5

1-280-68968-4

9786613666628

1-4094-3720-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SvenssonLennart <1944->

Disciplina

338.9/27

Soggetti

Sustainable development

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

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Foreword; About the Authors; 1 Running Programmes for Sustainable Development; 2 Models of Change and Evaluation; 3 Key Research Findings; 4 Evaluation for Sustainable Development; 5 Lessons from Earlier Programme Initiatives; 6 Lessons from Competence Initiatives; 7 Innovation and the Regional Fund; 8 Owning, Steering and Evaluating Large Programmes; Afterword; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Managing Sustainable Development is about understanding the difficulties and complexities of large change programmes and projects in both the private and public sectors. The authors' research reveals an extraordinary level of failure in these projects, the analysis of which overturns much of our traditional thinking about project delivery and governance.They turn existing theories on project management on their head, focusing instead on sustainable change and development. The message at its heart is 'don't blame the project leader' but rather look for active ownership of projects; joint knowle