Sustainability in European environmental policy: challenges of governance and knowledge/ edited by Rob Atkinson, Georgios Terizakis, and Karsten Zimmermann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Governance, Knowledge and Sustainability - An Introduction and Overview Rob Atkinson, Georgios Terizakis and Karsten Zimmermann -- 2. Sustainability and Knowledge: European Environmental Policy and the Challenge of Sustainability in a Multilevel System Karsten Zimmermann, Bas Denters and Pieter-Jan Klok -- 3. The Place of Knowledge in Policy Making Processes An Assessment of Three EU Environmental Policy Instruments Sonja Loeber -- 4. Governance and Knowledge: How do they Interact? Conceptual Propositions Hubert Heinelt, Gerd Held, Tanja Kopp-Malek, Ulf Matthiesen, Eva Reisinger and Karsten Zimmermann -- 5. The Cognitive Turn in Political Science Frank Nullmeier Tanja Kopp-Malek and Steffen Schneider -- 6. The Zone of Knowledge Transactions: Recent Tendencies in Knowledge Production, Knowledge Sharing and the Trading of Knowledge from a Socio-Spatial Perspective Ulf Matthiese and Eva Reisinger -- 7. Theories of Discourse and Narrative: What do They Mean for Governance and Policy? Rob Atkinson, Gerhard Held and Stephen Jeffares -- 8. Strategic Environmental Assessment, Strategic Spatial Planning, and the Politics of Local Knowledge Alessandro Balducci, Claudio Calvaresi and Karsten Zimmermann -- 9. How Great Expectations in Brussels are Dashed in Grosskrotzenburg: The Impacts of Reflective Knowledge Demonstrated in an Empirical Case of Implementing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Sonja Loeber and Hubert Heinelt --10. Governance, Knowledge and Policy Networks in Strategic Environmental Assessment Carolina Pacchi, Kara Davies,Valeria Fedeli and Martin Lund-Iversen -- 11. Governing Knowledge for Sustainability: An Appropriate Research Heuristic or Too Complex for Reality? Rob Atkinson, Georgios Terizakis and Karsten Zimmermann