Title:	Governance for sustainable development: The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function
Authors:	William M. Lafferty
Keywords:	Cheltenhan
Issue Date:	2004
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
Description:	The concept of sustainable development (SD) has increasingly become a major overall goal of national governments. Strongly prodded from ‘above’ by international and regional organisations, and pressured from ‘below’ by a broad variety of non-governmental organisations, the concept has achieved more and more prominence as a programmatic goal for governing initiatives. The purpose of the present volume is to explore the challenge of implement- ing sustainable development when viewed as a markedly ‘different’ type of programme-policy task. Assuming that the nature of the task – as first formu- lated and subsequently developed by United Nations’ organisations – requires new modes of governance, the book addresses the issue of how existing ‘forms’ of governance can adapt to specified ‘functions’ of sustainable devel- opment. The studies presented have been developed conjointly within the SUSGOV project of the Programme for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society (ProSus). ProSus is a ‘strategic research programme’ at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo. The programme is financed by the Research Council of Norway, Division for Strategic Priorities, Section on ‘Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development’.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26561
ISBN:	1 84376 769 4
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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