Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415630078
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9781135035945
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in European Politics Series
Content:
This book analyses the evolution of the sustainability discourse in the European Union, exploring the conditions necessary for sustainable development to move from a conceptual model into a model for action for strategic decision makers at all levels of governance
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Contributors -- Editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: establishing the research questions and methodological framework -- Research themes and questions -- Discourse theory as a methodological framework -- Structure of the book -- Part I Reflections on complex and contested concepts -- 1 Linking the discourse on sustainability and governance -- 2 Governance for sustainability in the European Union: a post-political project -- 3 The impact of de-growth (la décroissance) on the discourse of sustainability -- 4 Sustainable development: a floating signifier in the EU's energy policy discourse? -- Part II The sustainability discourse at European level -- 5 A Common Market and sustainable energy for Europe -- 6 European energy policy and its 'green dimension': discursive hegemony and policy variations in the greening of energy policy -- 7 The changing fortunes of nuclear energy in the discourse on sustainability -- 8 The role of EURATOM in a European sustainable energy strategy -- 9 EU sustainable mobility - between economic and environmental discourses -- 10 The European Union's emissions trading scheme - a post-political tool for strengthening integration and wide-reaching sustainability? -- Part III The sustainability discourse at national and sub-national level -- 11 The sustainable development discourse in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe -- 12 The UK's devolved authorities and the European sustainability discourse: between identity and actor hierarchy -- 13 The evolution of carbon capitalism in the English regions: sustainable mitigation, carbon modernization, and selective carbon economies
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14 Achieving sustainability through deliberation - reflections from Hampshire's municipal waste-management strategy -- Conclusions: not one discourse but many? -- Bibliography -- Part I: Reflections on complex and contested concepts -- 1. Linking the discourse on sustainability and governance -- Sustainability and sustainable development -- Unpacking the contested concepts of sustainable development and governance in Europe -- Definition of governance -- Bibliography -- 2. Governance for sustainability in the European Union - a post-political project -- Introduction -- Governing for sustainability in Europe -- The tensions and contradictions -- New governance, but old politics? -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3. The impact of de-growth (la décroissance) on the discourse of sustainability -- Introduction -- Theoretical foundations of de-growth -- Implications of the discourse of de-growth -- Limits and impact of de-growth -- A simplistic view of de-growth regimes -- A naive view of systemic transitions -- Misinterpretation of the law of entropy -- Impact upon the discourse of sustainable development -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4. Sustainable development: a floating signifier in the EU's energy policy discourse? -- Introduction -- Post-structuralist discourse analysis -- The sustainable development signifier -- Sustainable development and the EU energy policy discourse -- Sustainable development and the new Energy policy for Europe -- 1.1 Sustainability -- Conclusions -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part II: The sustainability discourse at European level -- 5. A Common Market and sustainable energy for Europe -- Introduction -- A short history of the European energy policy -- The Common Market for energy -- The nexus between sustainability and market integration -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
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2001-2006: decoupling transport growth from economic growth -- 2006-2011: efficiency and co-modality -- Conclusion: efficiency and economy as dominant ideas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10. The European Union's emissions trading scheme - a post-political tool for strengthening integration and wide-reaching sustainability -- Introduction -- Consensus on the necessity for urgent and large-scale action to tackle climate change -- The proactive position of the EU -- Towards a post-political climate governance in the EU -- ETS as a post-political tool for weak sustainable development? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III: The sustainability discourse at national and sub-national level -- 11. The sustainable development discourse in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Romania -- Introduction -- The evolution of the discourse on sustainable development -- Sustainable development and the limits to good governance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12. The UK's devolved authorities and the European sustainability discourse: between identity and actor hierarchy -- Introduction -- Devolution and the European sustainability discourse -- Capacity-building in the devolveds and the territorial diversification of the UK's EU environmental policy networks -- The devolveds as autonomous policy actors -- Antagonism versus deference in devolved approaches to European sustainability policy -- UK devolution and implications for sustainability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 13. The evolution of carbon capitalism in the English regions: sustainable mitigation, carbon modernization, and selective carbon economies -- Introduction -- Substituting and subsuming sustainability -- Sustainable development in the English regions -- Sustainable mitigation: morality and holism -- Carbon modernization: efficiency and instrumentalism -- Selective low carbon economies
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6. The European energy policy and its 'green dimension' - discursive hegemony and policy variations in the greening of energy policy -- Introduction -- The 'green' dimension of the European energy policy and its policy paradigms -- Environmental policy integration (EPI) and the hegemony of sustainable development -- Embedding sustainability to energy -- The institutionalization of sustainability in energy -- Climate change hegemony -- Climate change discourse structuring energy policy -- The institutionalization of climate change in energy policy -- Outlining the discursive footprint of the European energy policy's green dimension -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 7. The changing fortunes of nuclear energy in the sustainability discourse -- Introduction -- 1950s - the foundations of the discourse -- 1960s and 1970s - nuclear safety becomes a nodal point inthe discourse -- Post 2000 - competing discourses or one unified discourse? -- Conclusions - why does the change in the discourse matter? -- 8. The role of Euratom in a sustainable energy future -- Introduction -- National interests drive the Euratom Treaty -- Euratom as support for nuclear fission -- Euratom for fusion - research -- Similarities between renewables and nuclear power -- Nuclear power as a green energy resource -- Conclusion - lessons and potential for the future -- National interests driving nuclear power -- Re-establishing a supranational priority -- Euratom for nuclear safety and decommissioning -- Euratom for new technology funding -- Bibliography -- 9. EU sustainable mobility - between economic and environmental discourses -- Introduction -- Discourse analysis and EU sustainable mobility -- EU sustainable mobility discourse 1992-2011 -- The origin of EU sustainable mobility policy -- The 1990s: combatting transport generated pollution
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Conclusions -- Note -- Bibliography -- 14. Governance, sustainability and deliberation: reflections from a UK case study of sustainable waste management -- Introduction -- What is good governance? -- Deliberation, learning and behaviour change -- Case background: deliberation in sustainable waste management -- A relational framework for learning style -- Introducing the framework and the actors style -- A definition of learning style -- Partnership -- Engagement -- The effects of new modes of governance on learning -- Final reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Conclusion - not one discourse, but many? -- The sustainability story line - the 'original sin' -- Theoretical reflections -- Research questions -- Methodological framework -- The sustainable development story line - 'competing visions' of sustainable development -- Discourse on sustainability at the national and sub-nationallevels -- Narrowing in the discourse -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Barnes, Pamela M. Sustainable Development and Governance in Europe Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415630078
Language:
English
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