Transgovernance Advancing Sustainability Governance
‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses what implications recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may have
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Transgovernance Advancing Sustainability Governance
Editor Louis Meuleman PublicStrategy Brussels, Belgium University of Massachussets Boston, USA Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This book is a result of the TransGov project of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS). In November 2011 a first TransGov report was presented: ‘Transgovernance: The Quest for Governance of Sustainable Development’, authored by Roeland J. in ’t Veld. This report is downloadable as an open source publication at www.iass-potsdam.de. ISBN 978-3-642-28008-5 ISBN 978-3-642-28009-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-28009-2 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012943839 # The Editor(s) and the Author(s) 2013. The book is published with open access at SpringerLink.com. Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. All commercial rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for commercial use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for commercial use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword Klaus T€ opfer
We live, as we always have, in turbulent times. Social systems are reflexive in nature and can and will change pathways step by step, be it over time or instantly and abruptly. These changes may occur because of learning processes in a society or in the political culture or may result from changing power structures. These processes may be smooth and incremental or disruptive and powerful. Two main changes have altered this already challenging social fabric of the twentieth century. First, we live in the era of the
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