Policy Integration for Complex Environmental Problems: The Example of Mediterranean Desertification - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1138259039 ISBN 13: 9781138259034

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2017

Riassunto

The quest for policy integration crystallized in the 1990s as awareness was growing that the current supply of narrow, sectoral, and little coordinated, or even overlapping and conflicting, policies could not cope efficiently and effectively with contemporary complex, cross-cutting and interdependent socio-environmental problems. Combining and coordinating policies properly promises to address this institutional misfit, "add value" to policies, support planning at national and sub-national levels, and facilitate the transition to sustainable development more generally. This book proposes a comprehensive conceptualization of policy integration and negotiates pertinent theoretical, methodological and applied issues from the perspective of selected EU policies - rural development, regional development, transport, social, economic, environmental, water resources, and biodiversity policy. Mediterranean desertification, an exceptionally complex socio-environmental problem, is used as an illustrative example as the idea for this book transpired while researching the topic of policy making to combat desertification in the context of MEDACTION, an EU-funded research project.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Helen Briassoulis is Professor at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1138259039
• ISBN 13: 9781138259034
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 388
• Redattore: Briassoulis Helen
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania