Sustainability in European Environmental Policy : Challenges of Governance and Knowledge

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Book Cover Title Copyright Contents Figures and tables Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Governance, knowledge and sustainability – an introduction and overview 1 Sustainability and knowledge: European environmental policy and the challenge of sustainability in a multilevel system 2 The place of knowledge in policy-making processes: An assessment of three EU environmental policy instruments 3 Governance and knowledge: How do they interact? Conceptual propositions 4 The cognitive turn in political science 5 The zone of knowledge transactions: Recent tendencies in knowledge production, knowledge sharing and the trading of knowledge from a socio-spatial perspective 6 Theories of discourse and narrative: What do they mean for governance and policy? 7 Strategic environmental assessment, strategic spatial planning and the politics of local knowledge 8 How great expectations in Brussels are dashed in Großkrotzenburg: The impacts of reflective knowledge demonstrated in an empirical case of implementing the EU emissions trading scheme 9 Governance, knowledge and policy networks in Strategic Environmental Assessment 10 Governing knowledge for sustainability: An appropriate research heuristic or too complex for reality? Index