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James Meadowcroft
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BIOGRAPHY Professor, Canadian Research Chair in Governance for Sustainable Development, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. Coeditor of Governance, Democracy, and Sustainable Development and others. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Governance (2007) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (1)
Three wind turbines stand on a grassy hill above farmland with scattered hay bales, illustrating sustainable agriculture and renewable energy use.
Sustainability, the long-term viability of a community, set of social institutions, or societal practice. In general, sustainability is understood as a form of intergenerational ethics in which the environmental and economic actions taken by present persons do not diminish the opportunities of…
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Publications (2)
Governance, Democracy and Sustainable Development Moving Beyond the Impasse
Governance, Democracy and Sustainable Development Moving Beyond the Impasse (2012)
By James Meadowcroft, Oluf Langhelle, Audun Rudd
This insightful book deals with governance of the environment and sustainable development. The contributors explore the difficulties developed countries are experiencing in coming to terms with environmental limits and the resultant challenges to the democratic polity. They engage with different dimensions of the governance challenge including norms, public attitudes, citizen engagement, political conflict, policy design, and implementation, and with a range of environmental problems such as climate...
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Encyclopedia of Governance
Encyclopedia of Governance (2007)
By Mark Bevir
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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