Sustainable development, evaluation and policy-making : Theory, practise and quality assurance / edited by Anneke von Raggamby and Frieder Rubik
Imprint
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2012
Descript
xxii, 313p. : ill ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Introduction -- Understanding sustainability evaluation and its contributions to policy-making -- How to select policy-relevant indicators for sustainable development -- Should evaluation be revisited for sustainable development? -- A basic roadmap for sustainability assessments: the SIMPLE methodology -- Political challenges in policy-level evaluation for sustainable development: the case of trade policy -- Integrated approaches for Ex-Ante impact assessment tools: tje example of land use -- Politics of (Non-)knowledfe: problems of evaluation, validity and legitimacy -- How informed should decisions be? -- Impact assessment in the European Union: the continuation of politics by other means? -- Science- policy interface and the role of impact assessments in the case of biofuels -- Indicators as an appraisal technology: framework for analysing the policy influence of the UK energy sector indicators -- Quality requirements for sustainable evaluations -- Bellagio SusTainability Assessment and Measurement Principles (BellagioSTAMP) - significance and examples from international environment outlooks -- Evaluation quallity in the context of sustainability -- Developing and mapping a continuity for evaluating sustainable development