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Governance for Sustainability
Author(s) -
Yencken David
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8500.00275
Subject(s) - sustainability , corporate governance , environmental policy , government (linguistics) , environmental governance , environmental sustainability index , business , environmental impact assessment , environmental planning , environmental resource management , political science , public economics , environmental economics , economics , environmental science , ecology , finance , biology , linguistics , philosophy , law
Environmental policies and responses are strongly influenced by a government’s knowledge and understanding of environmental problems, its assessment of their severity, the expert opinions available to it on the size of the response needed, its understanding of the driving forces leading to environmental deterioration and the influence of prevailing theories and paradigms. Environmental policy cannot furthermore exist in a policy vacuum. Environmental goals may or may not be strongly weighted compared to other societal goals especially economic goals. All these influences have major bearing on the approach taken by governments to environmental policy.