Governance for sustainable development: a framework
| Autor: | Annemarie van Zeijl-Rozema, René Kemp, Ron Cörvers, Pim Martens |
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| Přispěvatelé: | ICIS, Mt Economic Research Inst on Innov/Techn, RS: FSE ICIS, RS: GSBE TIID |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Sustainable development
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Process (engineering) Institutionalisation Corporate governance Environmental resource management Stakeholder Development Variety (cybernetics) Project governance Political science Normative Economic system business |
| Zdroj: | Sustainable Development, 16(6), 410-421. John Wiley & Sons Inc. |
| ISSN: | 0968-0802 |
| Popis: | This paper deals with the linking of two complex concepts, governance and sustainable development. Sustainable development is a normative concept, dealing with different temporal and spatial scales and with multiple stakeholders. It indicates a process of human progress. Sometimes sustainable development is objectified in terms of goals and principles, but the exact meaning of sustainable development is usually left open. Governance is seen as a means to steer the process of sustainable development. However, governance is not a straightforward concept either. It can be seen as a collection of rules, stakeholder involvement and processes to realise a common goal. The central assumption in this paper is that sustainable development cannot be achieved without governance because of the nature of the sustainable development concept. Sustainable development incorporates wicked issues, social complexity and weak institutionalisation. In this paper we argue that the many perspectives on sustainable development can be described meaningfully between the extremes of the rational, objective perspective and the normative perspective of sustainable development. Furthermore, the variety of modes of governance can be captured between hierarchical governance and co-governance. From this we derive four typologies of state-society relations (governance) for sustainable development: the rational state, the rational society, the normative state and the normative society. The main conclusion of this paper is that the debate on governance for sustainable development will be clarified if the perspective on sustainable development and the mode of governance – and the combination of the two – is made more explicit. |
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