Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvJan-Peter Voß,Dierk Bauknecht,René Kemp

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This book deals with the issue of sustainable development in a novel and innovative way. It examines the governance implications of reflexive modernisation - the condition that societal development is endangered by its own side-effects. With conceptualising reflexive governance the book leads a way out of endless quarrels about the definition of sustainability and into a new mode of collective action.The authors assert that sustainability is not a defined end-state, but should be understood as the capacity of society to learn about the conditions of its future existence and wants. This requires, in their view, a specific kind of problem solving framework which emphasises the interlinkage of problems and scales, as well as long-term and indirect effects of various actions. Sustainability calls for new forms of governance with attention given to uncertainty, ambivalence about multiple goals and distributed power. The book develops an alternative framework with which to address the challenge of sustainability and derives a set of strategy elements for dealing with sustainability in practice. These are discussed from conceptual as well as practical perspectives.Bringing recent insights from innovation research, governance studies and complexity theory in common focus, Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development will be of great interest to researchers in social change, innovation and governance studies, as well as policymakers confronted with sustainable development issues.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-03-29
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781845425821

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Contents:PrefacePart I: Introduction 1. Sustainability and Reflexive Government: Introduction Jan-Peter Voß and René KempPart II: Reflections on Reflexive Governance2. Reflexive Governance: Politics in the Global Risk SocietyUlrich Beck3. Reflexive Modernisation as a Governance Issue, Or: Designing and Shaping Re-structurationJohn Grin4. A Co-Evolutionary Approach to Reflexive Governance – and its IroniesArie RipPart III: Strategies for Sustainable System Transformation5.Transition Management: A Reflexive Governance ApproachRené Kemp and Derk Loorbach6. Adaptive Management to Restore Ecological and Economic Resilience in the Tisza River BasinJan Sendzimir, Piotr Magnuszewski, Peter Balogh and Anna Vári7. Sustainability Foresight: Reflexive Governance in the Transformation of Utility SystemsJan-Peter Voß, Bernard Truffer and Kornelia Konrad8. Foresight and Adaptive Planning as Complementary Elements in Anticipatory Policy-making: A Conceptual and Methodological ApproachK. Matthias WeberPart IV: Knowledge Production and Assessment9. Precaution, Foresight and Sustainability: Reflection and Reflexivity in the Governance of Science and TechnologyAndy Stirling10. The (Re)search for Solutions: Research Programmes for Sustainable Development Katy Whitelegg11. Integrating Perspectives in the Practice of Transdisciplinary ResearchMarie Céline LoiblPart V: Development of Technology and Policy12. Niche-based Approaches to Sustainable Development: Radical Activists versus Strategic ManagersAdrian Smith13. The Sustainable Transformation of SanitationBas van Vliet14. The Transition towards Sustainable Production Systems in Austria: A Reflexive Exercise?Philipp Späth, Harald Rohracher, K. Matthias Weber and Ines Oehme15. The Transformation of Agriculture: Reflexive Governance for AgrobiodiversityFranziska WolffPart VI: Conclusions16. Reflexive Governance: A View on an Emerging PathJan-Peter Voß, René Kemp and Dierk BauknechtIndex