Governing Sustainability.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainability: exploring the processes and outcomes of governance / W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan -- Human development and environmental governance: a reality check / Katrina Brown -- Governance, government and the pursuit of sustainability / Albert Weale -- How do environmental actors make governance systems more sustainable? The role of politics and ideas in policy change / Philip Lowe and Katy Wilkinson -- Global governance for sustainable capitalism? The political economy of global environmental governance / Matthew Paterson -- Citizens, citizenship and governance for sustainability / Andy Dobson -- The governance of science for sustainability / Jill Jager -- Practitioner evaluations of participatory processes in environmental decision making / Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark -- Participation, precaution and reflexive governance for sustainable development / Andy Stirling -- Precaution and the governance of risk / Ortwin Renn -- Economics and the governance of sustainable development / Simon Dietz and Eric Neumayer -- Sustainability: welfare and value and time / John O'Neill -- Reflections on the pathways to sustainability / Tim O'Riordan.

"The crisis of unsustainability is, above all else, a crisis of governance. The transition to a more sustainable world will inevitably require radical changes in the actions of all governments, and it will call for significant changes to the lifestyles of individuals everywhere. Bringing together some of the world's most highly regarded experts on governance and sustainable development, this book examines these necessary processes and consequences across a range of sectors, regions and other important areas of concern. It reveals that the governance of sustainable development is politically contested, and that it will continue to test existing governance systems to their limits. As both a state-of-the-art review of current thinking and an assessment of existing policy practices, it will be of great interest to all those who are preparing themselves - or their organisations - for the sustainability transition."--Jacket.