Governance For Sustainability

Issues, Challenges, Successes

Klaus Bosselmann, Ron Engel and Prue Taylor

Cover design by:
magoodesign • Markus Kahlenberg

Cover photo:
Jean-François Hellio, Nicolas van Ingen

DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2008.EPLP.70.en
ISBN: 978-2-8317-1105-8

IUCN Enviornmental Policy and Law Paper No. 70


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Produced by: IUCN Environmental Law Centre


 Index

Information for this Title

Preface

Acknowledgements

Authors

Introduction: What is governance for sustainability?

Part A: Issues, Resources

Chapter 1: Governance for Sustainability

Chapter 2: The Covenantal Foundations of Governance for the Community of Life

Part B: Challenges, Successes

Chapter 3: Introduction to the Case Studies

Chapter 4: Case Studies

4.1 EIA as the Start of a Social Bargaining Process: The Malampaya Deepwater Gas-to-Power Project

4.2 Public Engagement and Local Benefit Sharing in the Northwind Bangui Bay Project, Philippines

4.3 The Aldinga Arts Ecovillage

4.4 Earthlife Africa versus the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor: A Battle for Governance for Sustainability and Informed Decision Making in South Africa

4.5 Quarrels over a Proposed Quarry in Nova Scotia: Successful Application of Sustainability Principles in Environmental Impact Assessment but Not a Perfect Ending

4.6 The WaiWai Protected Area ?Our Land: Our Life

4.7 Balancing Sustainability Considerations through Public Participation in South Africa: A Critical Reflection on Legislative Entitlements and the Role of the Judiciary

4.8 It Takes a Village to Save the Polar Bear

4.9 Brightening the Covenant Chain: The Onondaga Land Rights Action and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation

4.10 Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Great Lakes Governance

4.11 Actualising Sustainability in the United Kingdom ?Recent Developments in Devolved and Local Government

4.12 The Experience of Porto Alegre's Participatory Budget

4.13 Land Use Regulation versus Property Rights: What Oregon's Recent Battles Could Mean for Sustainable Governance

4.14 Grenelle de l'environnement: Is France making up for lost time?

4.15 International Law and Local Normative Changes: Learning to Co-exist with Hooded Cranes in Suncheon Bay, South Korea

4.16 Australia's Efforts to Achieve Integrated Marine Governance

4.17 Waitutu Block and Tutae-Ka-Wetoweto Indigenous Forests

4.18 Hector's and Maui's Dolphins

4.19 The Case of Nunavut: Global Warming and Vulnerability in the Canadian Arctic

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