Governance by Evaluation for Sustainable Development

Edited by Michal Sedlacko, FH Campus Wien and André Martinuzzi, Director, Research Institute for Managing Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), Vienna, Austria

• Contents:Preface 1. Governance for Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Learning: An IntroductionMichal Sedlacko and André Martinuzzi PART I: LEARNING THROUGH EVALUATION 2. The Politics of Sustainability Evaluation: Analysis of Three Austrian Strategies for Sustainable Development Michael Pregernig, Karl Hogl and Ralf Nordbeck3. Tools for Learning-oriented Environmental AppraisalMåns Nilsson PART II: INSTITUTIONALISING SD CONCERNS IN EUROPEAN POLICY MAKING 4. Integrating Sustainable Development into Impact Assessment: How Effective is the European Commission? Jennifer Franz and Colin Kirkpatrick5. Monitoring the Expected Impacts of the 7th EU Framework Programme on Sustainable Development – a Case Study on Governance by EvaluationAndré Martinuzzi6. From a European Court of Auditors’ Report to a Learning Process? The Challenge to Integrate the Environment into the European Community’s Development AssistanceAxel Johannes Olearius, Iola Leal Riesco and Sally Nicholson PART III: DEALING WITH MULTI-STAKEHOLDER CONTEXTS 7. Evaluation of Public Participation Towards Sustainable Water Management: An Institutional PerspectiveGül Özerol8. Dynamic Decision Analysis for Monitoring and Facilitating the Dutch Costa Due Stakeholder Dialogue on Sustainable EnergyKirsten Hollaender and Frans Stokman9. Participatory Livelihoods System Appraisal: A Learning-oriented Methodology for Impact AssessmentMartin Strele10. Towards a Process for Eliciting Criteria Weights and Enhancing Capacity of Stakeholders in Ex Ante Evaluation of Climate PoliciesStelios Grafakos, Dimitrios Zevgolis and Vlasis Oikonomou PART IV: DEVELOPING LEARNING CAPACITY IN ORGANISATIONS 11. Assessment of Outcome Mapping as a Tool for Evaluating and Monitoring Support to Civil Society OrganisationsSteve Powell, Joakim Molander and Ivona Čelebičić12. Development of a Learning-oriented Monitoring System for Sustainable Agriculture Chain Development in Eastern IndonesiaSteff Deprez13. Process Monitoring of Impacts and its Application in Structural Fund ProgrammesRichard Hummelbrunner14. Participatory Ex Ante Evaluation of Long-term Infrastructure Plans as a Policy-learning ProcessEckhard Störmer and Bernhard Truffer PART V: REFLECTING EVALUATION TOOLS: PERSPECTIVES AND PITFALLS 15. The Role of Visualisation Within Sustainability Evaluation ProcessesHarald Wilfing and Ulrike Bechtold Index

‘. . . the book is well edited and contains an instructive collection of cases on organizational learning. . . it is recommended reading for researchers interested in the sometimes arduous task of institutionalizing organizational learning.’