Taking Complexity Seriously: Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development - Rilegato

Roe, Emery

 
9780792380580: Taking Complexity Seriously: Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development

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This text applies the advanced policy analysis technique of triangulation to a complex public policy challenge - sustainable development. One central problem of public policy analysis has been to find new ways of analyzing issues of increasing complexity and uncertainty. Triangulation is perhaps the best example of these novel techniques, as it uses various methods, databases, theories, and approaches to converge on decision-making on the complex issue in question. The book uses four different theoretical approaches (Giradian economics, cultural theory, critical theory, and the local justice framework) to triangulation in order to arrive at answers to four major policy questions: what is sustainable development?; why is it an issue?; what needs to be done?; what can actually be done? These four approaches are used to analyze the sustainable development controversy which have arisen in the pages of "Science" magazine and the journal "Ecological Applications". These different approaches prove highly potent in defamiliarizing conventional wisdom about sustainable development. Ultimately the different approaches will converge on novel answers to the four questions. The practical implications of these conclusions are drawn out at the end of this book in a detailed case study of ecosystem management.

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Contenuti

Part I: Analyzing Policy Issues of High Uncertainty and Complexity. Part II: The Sustainable Development Controversy. Introduction. 1. Sustainable Development and Girardian Economics. 2. Sustainable Development and Cultural Theory. 3. Sustainable Development and Critical Theory. 4. Sustainable Development and the Local Justice Framework. 5. Triangulating on Sustainable Development. Part III: The Sharp Edge of the Sword: A Case of Sustainable Development. Index.

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Book by Roe Emery

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9781461375111: Taking Complexity Seriously: Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development

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ISBN 10:  1461375118 ISBN 13:  9781461375111
Casa editrice: Springer, 2012
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