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

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’ programm...

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Superior document:Issues in Environmental Politics
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Year of Publication:2004
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Issues in Environmental Politics
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 246 pages) :; digital file(s).
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.