Taking Complexity Seriously

Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development
1998
ISBN: 978-0-7923-8058-0
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 407 g

applies the advanced policy analysis technique of triangulation to what is now the world's most 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 what to do about the complex issue in question.
uses four different theoretical approaches (Girardian economics, cultural theory, critical theory, and the local justice framework) to triangulation in order to converge on 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 that recently arose in the pages of magazine and the journal . 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 in a detailed case study of ecosystem management.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roe, Emery

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Bergbau, Hüttenwesen
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Wirtschaftsgeologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Analyzing Policy Issues of High Uncertainty and Complexity.- Analyzing Policy Issues of High Uncertainty and Complexity.- II The Sustainable Development Controversy.- 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.- III The Sharp Edge of the Sword: A Case of Sustainable Development.- The Sharp Edge of The Sword: a Case of Sustainable Development.