Transition to Sustainability

Timothy O'Riordan is Associate Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment and Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.Heather Voisey is a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment at the University of East Anglia.Contributors Timothy O'Riordan, Heather Voisey, Nigel Haigh, Martin Hession, Richard Macrory, David Wilkinson, Clare Coffey, Christiane Beuermann, Bernhard Burdick, Liv Astrid Sverdrup, Teresa Ribeiro, Valdemar Rodrigues, Panos Fousekis, Joseph Lekakis

• Preface ? Part I: Setting the Scene ? The Political Economy of the Sustainability Transition ? The Politics of Agenda 21 ? Part II: The European Union and Sustainable Development ? Introducing the Concept of Sustainable Development into the Treaties of the European Union ? The Legal Dynamics of European Integration and Sustainable Development ? The Legal Duty of Environmental Integration: Commitment and Obligation or Enforceable Right? ? Steps Towards Integrating the Environment into Other EU Policy Sectors ? European Community Funding and the Sustainability Transition ? Part III: The Evolution of National Sustainable Development Strategies ? Sustainable Development: The UK National Approach ? The German Response to the Sustainability Transition ? The Norwegian Experience of the Transition to Sustainability ? The Evolution of Sustainable Development Strategies in Portugal ? Adjusting to a Changing Reality: The Greek Response ? Part IV: Local Agenda 21 and the Sustainability Transition ? Local Agenda 21 in the UK ? Local Agenda 21 in Germany ? Local Agenda 21 in Norway ? Continuing the Transition ? Index