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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book provides a balanced and comprehensive coverage of current research and practice on the role of evaluation in supporting governance for sustainable development and learning.
This accessible study draws lessons from how evaluation studies and evaluation systems forward the agendas of sustainable development and good governance, by opening up decision-making processes to stakeholders, supporting evidence-based, coherent and transparent decision making, integrating concerns of the three domains of sustainable development into decision making and supporting learning and capacity building. It assesses how political-administrative realities affect the design and use of evaluation studies as well as the institutionalization of monitoring and evaluation systems.
The contributors expertly review recent European experience with evaluation at the EU, national, regional and local levels which will appeal to researchers specializing in regional, political and sustainability sciences and practitioners in the area of policy/program evaluation and sustainable development.
Contributors: U. Bechtold, I. Celebicic, S. Deprez, J. Franz, S. Grafakos, K. Hogl, K. Hollaender, R. Hummelbrunner, C. Kirkpatrick, I. Leal Riesco, A. Martinuzzi, J. Molander, S. Nicholson, M. Nilsson, R. Nordbeck, V. Oikonomou, A.J. Olearius, G. Ozerol, S. Powell, M. Pregernig, M. Sedlacko, F. Stokman, E. Stormer, M. Strele, B. Truffer, H. Wilfing, D. Zevgolis
Trade Review‘. . . the book is well edited and contains an instructive collection of cases on organizational learning. . . it is recommended reading for researchers interested in the sometimes arduous task of institutionalizing organizational learning.’ -- Martin Petrick, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture
Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Governance for Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Learning: An Introduction Michal Sedlacko and André Martinuzzi PART I: LEARNING THROUGH EVALUATION 2. The Politics of Sustainability Evaluation: Analysis of Three Austrian Strategies for Sustainable Development Michael Pregernig, Karl Hogl and Ralf Nordbeck 3. Tools for Learning-oriented Environmental Appraisal Måns Nilsson PART II: INSTITUTIONALISING SD CONCERNS IN EUROPEAN POLICY MAKING 4. Integrating Sustainable Development into Impact Assessment: How Effective is the European Commission? Jennifer Franz and Colin Kirkpatrick 5. Monitoring the Expected Impacts of the 7th EU Framework Programme on Sustainable Development – a Case Study on Governance by Evaluation André Martinuzzi 6. From a European Court of Auditors’ Report to a Learning Process? The Challenge to Integrate the Environment into the European Community’s Development Assistance Axel Johannes Olearius, Iola Leal Riesco and Sally Nicholson PART III: DEALING WITH MULTI-STAKEHOLDER CONTEXTS 7. Evaluation of Public Participation Towards Sustainable Water Management: An Institutional Perspective Gül Özerol 8. Dynamic Decision Analysis for Monitoring and Facilitating the Dutch Costa Due Stakeholder Dialogue on Sustainable Energy Kirsten Hollaender and Frans Stokman 9. Participatory Livelihoods System Appraisal: A Learning-oriented Methodology for Impact Assessment Martin Strele 10. Towards a Process for Eliciting Criteria Weights and Enhancing Capacity of Stakeholders in Ex Ante Evaluation of Climate Policies Stelios Grafakos, Dimitrios Zevgolis and Vlasis Oikonomou PART IV: DEVELOPING LEARNING CAPACITY IN ORGANISATIONS 11. Assessment of Outcome Mapping as a Tool for Evaluating and Monitoring Support to Civil Society Organisations Steve Powell, Joakim Molander and Ivona Čelebičić 12. Development of a Learning-oriented Monitoring System for Sustainable Agriculture Chain Development in Eastern Indonesia Steff Deprez 13. Process Monitoring of Impacts and its Application in Structural Fund Programmes Richard Hummelbrunner 14. Participatory Ex Ante Evaluation of Long-term Infrastructure Plans as a Policy-learning Process Eckhard Störmer and Bernhard Truffer PART V: REFLECTING EVALUATION TOOLS: PERSPECTIVES AND PITFALLS 15. The Role of Visualisation Within Sustainability Evaluation Processes Harald Wilfing and Ulrike Bechtold Index
