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TY - JOUR
T1 - National sustainable development strategies for New Zealand and Scotland
T2 - A comparison
AU - Frame, Bob
AU - Bebbington, Jan
PY - 2012/7/10
Y1 - 2012/7/10
N2 - Sustainable development policy is explored through the national sustainable development strategies of two countries, Scotland and New Zealand, over the period 2003-2007. Since governance of issues starts with formulation of strategic direction, texts that purport to address sustainable development strategy provide a lens into governments' value systems. We use a form of Foucault's governmentality and, drawing from papers that provide characterisations of governing approaches, we provide a discourse analysis of the two strategies and examine how the demands of sustainability are constructed within these documents. Adoption of sustainability principles in both countries appears dominated by the continued use of current governance practices, with few examples of what could be characterised a sustainability-led governance. How each country's strategy approaches the task of governing, however, is different.
AB - Sustainable development policy is explored through the national sustainable development strategies of two countries, Scotland and New Zealand, over the period 2003-2007. Since governance of issues starts with formulation of strategic direction, texts that purport to address sustainable development strategy provide a lens into governments' value systems. We use a form of Foucault's governmentality and, drawing from papers that provide characterisations of governing approaches, we provide a discourse analysis of the two strategies and examine how the demands of sustainability are constructed within these documents. Adoption of sustainability principles in both countries appears dominated by the continued use of current governance practices, with few examples of what could be characterised a sustainability-led governance. How each country's strategy approaches the task of governing, however, is different.
KW - governance
KW - governmentality
KW - national sustainable development strategies
KW - New Zealand
KW - Scotland
KW - sustainability principles
KW - sustainable development policy
KW - sustainability policy
U2 - 10.1504/IJSD.2012.047776
DO - 10.1504/IJSD.2012.047776
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 249
EP - 276
JO - International Journal of Sustainable Development
JF - International Journal of Sustainable Development
SN - 0960-1406
IS - 3
ER -