| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge advances in European politics ; 96 |
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Routledge advances in European politics ; 96.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: establishing the research questions and methodological framework / Pamela M. Barnes and Thomas C. Hoerber -- Linking the discourse on sustainability and governance / Pamela M. Barnes and Thomas C. Hoerber -- Governance for sustainability in the European Union -- a post-political project / Liza Griffin -- The impact of de-growth (la décroissance) on the discourse of sustainability / Assen Slim -- Sustainable development: a floating signifier in the EU's energy policy discourse? / Irene Koegl and Kristina Kurze -- A common market and sustainable energy for Europe / Florian Baumann -- The European energy policy and its 'green dimension' -- discursive hegemony and policy variations in the greening of energy policy / Israel Solorio, Mischa Bechberger and Lucia Popartan -- The changing fortunes of nuclear energy in the sustainability discourse / Pamela M. Barnes -- The role of Euratom in a sustainable energy future / Thomas C. Hoerber -- EU sustainable mobility -- between economic and environmental discourses / Helene Dyrhauge -- The European Union's emissions trading scheme -- a post-political tool for strengthening integration and wide-reaching sustainability? / Lydia Kernevez -- The sustainable development discourse in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Romania / Simona Davidescu -- The UK's devolved authorities and the European sustainability discourse: between identity and actor hierarchy / Patricia Hogwood -- The evolution of carbon capitalism in the English regions: sustainable mitigation, carbon modernization, and selective carbon economics / William Eadson -- Governance, sustainability and deliberation: reflections from a UK case study of sustainable waste management / Richard Bull -- Conclusion -- not one discourse, but many? / Pamela M. Barnes and Thomas C. Hoerber. |
| Summary |
This book analyses the evolution of the sustainability discourse in the European Union, exploring the conditions necessary for sustainable development to move from a conceptual model into a model for action for strategic decision makers at all levels of governance. This book questions the extent to which the discourse on sustainability has become embedded into governance structures in Europe. It focuses on the importance of the nature of the language of the political discourse on sustainability and how ideas are communicated amongst the actors and stakeholders in the policy ma. |
| Subject |
Sustainable development -- Europe.
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Europe -- Economic policy.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Développement durable -- Europe. |
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Europe -- Politique économique. |
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Europe -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1989- |
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Développement durable. |
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Politique économique. |
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Politique de l'environnement. |
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Politique énergétique. |
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UE/CE Etats membres. |
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Economic policy |
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Politics and government |
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Sustainable development |
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Europe |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1989 |
| Added Author |
Barnes, Pamela M., 1950- editor.
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Hoerber, Thomas C., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sustainable development and governance in Europe. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013 9780415630078 (DLC) 2012050056 (OCoLC)794041297 |
| ISBN |
9781135035945 (electronic bk.) |
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1135035946 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203768730 (ebook) |
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0203768736 (ebook) |
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1299716598 (ebk) |
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9781299716599 (ebk) |
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9781135035938 |
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1135035938 |
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