Research Catalog

Title

The transition to sustainability : the politics of Agenda 21 in Europe / edited by Tim O'Riordan and Heather Voisey.

Publication

London : Earthscan Publications, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• O'Riordan, Timothy.
• Voisey, Heather, 1971-

Description

xv, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Politics of Agenda 21 in Europe

Subjects

• Sustainable development > European Union countries
• Sustainable development > European Union countries > Planning
• Agenda 21
• Environmental policy > European Union countries
• Environmental policy > International cooperation
• Economic development > Environmental aspects > European Union countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-313) and index.

Contents

The political economy of the sustainability transition / T. O'Riordan and H. Voisey -- The politics of Agenda 21 / T. O'Riordan and H. Voisey -- Introducing the concept of sustainabile development into the treaties of the European Union / Nigel Haigh -- The legal dynamics of European integration and sustainable development / Martin Hession -- The legal duty of environmental integration: commitment and obligation or enforceable right? / Richard Macrory and M. Hession -- Steps towards inegrating the environment into other EU policy sectors / David Wilkinson -- European Community funding and the sustainablity transition / Clare Coffey -- Sustainable development : the UK national approach / H. Voisey and T. O'Riordan -- The German response to the sustainability transition / Christiane Beuermann and Bernhard Burdick -- The Norwegian experience of the transition to sustainability / Liv Astrid Sverdrup -- The evolution of sustainable development strategies in Portugal / Teresa Ribeiro and Valdemar Rodrigues -- Adjusting to a changing reality: the Greek response / Panos Fousekis and Joseph Lekakis -- Local Agenda 21 in the UK / H. Voisey -- Local Agenda 21 in Germany / C. Beuermann --Local Agenda 21 in Norway / L.A. Sverdrup -- Continuing the transition / T. O'Riordan and H. Voisey.

ISBN

• 1853834696
• 1853834688 (pbk.)

OCLC

ocm42407410

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries