In Pursuit of Sustainable Development New governance practices at the sub-national level in Europe By: Susan Baker Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415599627, 0415599628 eText ISBN: 9781134112241, 1134112246 Edition: 1st Pages: 256 Copyright year: 2008 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134112241R90 The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development. Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies in the 1990s. Implementation efforts are increasingly using ‘new’ governance arrangements, including: use of public/private partnerships new policy tools policy transfer and benchmarking policy networks and involvement of stakeholder groups and institutional capacity enhancement. The editors, whom are lea Download ebook: https://ouo.io/iUhhPW