{"product_id":"sustainable-development-evaluation-and-policymaking-theory-practise-and-quality-assurance-evaluating-sustainable-development-series-9780857932549","title":"Sustainable Development Evaluation and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis pathbreaking book contributes to the discourse of evidence-based policy-making. It does so by combining the two issues of policy evaluation and sustainable development linking both to the policy-cycle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Compared to other collections in this ?eld, Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making, Theory, Practise and Quality Assurance is straightforward in its style and writing. . . There are no strange hypotheses, no jargon, no digressions, and no endless dis-cussion. The quality of the argumentation deployed here is impressive: the notes, ?gures, and remarks about research results are detailed and carefully crafted.’ -- Yves Laberge, Science \u0026amp; Public Policy\u003cbr\u003e‘This thought-provoking and wide-ranging handbook covers a very wide range of multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable development and is a worthy addition to the bookshelf of those working in this area, whether they be evaluators, researchers, students or indeed the policy-makers themselves.’ -- Keith Dawson, Experimental Agriculture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Introduction Frieder Rubik, Anneke von Raggamby and Anna Hirschbeck  PART I: PERCEPTION OF SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEMS 1. Understanding Sustainability Evaluation and its Contributions to Policy-Making Reinhard Stockmann  2. How to Select Policy-Relevant Indicators for Sustainable Development Frank J. Dietz and Albert H. Hanemaaijer  3. Should Evaluation be Revisited for Sustainable Development?  Wolfgang Meyer  PART II: POLICY FORMATION: THE ROLE OF EVALUATION\/ASSESSMENT 4. A Basic Roadmap for Sustainability Assessments: The SIMPLE Methodology Candice Stevens  5. Political Challenges in Policy-Level Evaluation for Sustainable Development: The Case of Trade Policy Clive George and Colin Kirkpatrick  6. Integrated Approaches for Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Tools: The Example of Land Use Katharina Helming, Ignacio de la Flor and Katharina Diehl  7. Politics of (Non-)Knowledge: Problems of Evaluation, Validity and Legitimacy Stefan Böschen  PART III: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION\/ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS IN DIFFERENT APPLICATION AREAS 8. How Informed Should Decisions Be? Stephen White and Jakub Koniecki  9. Impact Assessment in the European Union: The Continuation of Politics by Other Means? Anne C.M. Meuwese  10. Science-Policy Interface and the Role of Impact Assessments in the Case of Biofuels Bernd Hirschl, Timo Kaphengst, Anna Neumann and Katharina Umpfenbach  PART IV: POLICY REFORMULATION: MONITORING AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 11. Indicators as an Appraisal Technology: Framework for Analysing the Policy Influence of the UK Energy Sector Indicators Markku Lehtonen  PART V: QUALITY AND EVALUATION 12. Quality Requirements for Sustainability Evaluations Anneke von Raggamby, Frieder Rubik, Doris Knoblauch and Rebecca Stecker  13. Bellagio SusTainability Assessment and Measurement Principles (BellagioSTAMP) – Significance and Examples from International Environmental Outlooks Jan Bakkes   14. Evaluation Quality in the Context of Sustainability Thomas Widmer  15. Developing and Mapping a Community for Evaluating Sustainable Development André Martinuzzi  Index","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406330995031,"sku":"9780857932549","price":116.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857932549.jpg?v=1730495420","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sustainable-development-evaluation-and-policymaking-theory-practise-and-quality-assurance-evaluating-sustainable-development-series-9780857932549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}