Sustainability, Innovation and Participatory Governance A Cross-National Study of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme

Title first published in 2003. This book focuses on whether participatory governance can lead to sustainable and innovative outcomes. Using an empirical analysis of the development, implementation and review of an EU environmental management system - the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), it examines under which circumstances participatory governance might encourage sustainability and innovation.

Contents: Policy Overview and Analytical Framework: Introduction, Hubert Heinelt, Britta Meinke, Randall Smith and Georgios Terizakis; Sustainability, innovation, participation and EMAS, Hubert Heinelt and Annette Elisabeth Töller; The negotiation and renegotiation of a European policy tool, Annette Elisabeth Töller and Hubert Heinelt. Country Studies: The eco-management and audit scheme in Britain, Randall Smith and Femke Geerts; The British case studies, Femke Geerts and Randall Smith; EMAS in Greece, Panagiotis Getimis, Georgia Giannakourou and Zafeiroula Dimadama; The Greek case studies, Panagiotis Getimis and Zafeiroula Dimadama; EMAS in Germany, Hubert Heinelt, Tanja Malek and Annette Elisabeth Töller; The German case studies, Brigitte Geißel. Reflections: EMAS: an instrument for participatory governance?, Hubert Heinelt, Britta Meinke and Annette Elisabeth Töller; References; Index.

Hubert Heinelt, Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies, Institute of Political Science, Darmstadt University of Technology Randall Smith, Senior Research Fellow, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol