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INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

Volume 12

From Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21

Working towards sustainable development

Full list of titles in the set

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

Volume 1:	Acid Rain in Europe
Volume 2:	Getting to Grips with Green Plans
Volume 3:	The Global Politics of Pesticides
Volume 4:	Acid Earth
Volume 5:	Earth Summit II
Volume 6:	Fair Weather
Volume 7:	Future Generations and International Law
Volume 8:	Greening International Institutions
Volume 9:	A Guide to EC Environmental Law
Volume 10:	Managing the Planet
Volume 11:	Protecting the Atmosphere
Volume 12:	From Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21
Volume 13:	Futile Progress
Volume 14:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 199899
Volume 15:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 19992000
Volume 16:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 200102
Volume 17:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 200203
Volume 18:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 200304

First published in 1998

This edition first published in 2009 by Earthscan

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ISBN 978-1-84407-999-5 (Volume 12 hbk)

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From the Earth Summit to
Local Agenda 21

First published in the UK in 1998 by

Earthscan Publications Limited

Copyright Program for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society (ProSus), 1998

All rights reserved

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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Carlo Aall received a graduate degreee (cand.agric.) in 1987 from The Norwegian University of Agriculture. He has also worked as an environmental officer for the municipality of 1en (198890). Employed as a researcher since 1991 at The Western Norway Research Institute in Sogndal, he is now doing a PhD on Municipal Environmental Policy at the University of lborg. He has recently published numerous reports in Norwegian on the Eco-municipality Program and Environmental auditing in Norwegian municipalities.

Christiane Beuermaen is an economist by profession. Currently working at the Climate Policy Division of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy in Wuppertal, Germany, her main areas of research are international and German climate policy, institutional adjustments and social-learning processes in response to the issues of climate change and sustainable development. Recently published articles deal with the sustainability transition, its chances and impediments in Germany, as well as with the implementation of Chapter 28 of Agenda 21 in Germany.

Frans H J.M. Coenen holds a Masters degree in Public Administration and a PhD in Environmental Policy Planning. He is currently a Researcher at the Centre for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy (CSTM) which is an interfaculty institute for environmental studies at the University of Twente. He publishes and lectures in the fields of planning, environmental policy and evaluation research, and among his most recent publications is The effectiveness of municipal environmental policy planning (1996, CSTM report series).

Katarina Eckerberg is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Ume University. Her research and lecturing focus on environmental politics and policy, including comparative international studies. Her most recent publications include Environmental Protection in Swedish Forestry (Avebury, 1990); Process and Policy Evaluation in Structure Planning (Swedish Council for Building Research, 1993); and Comparing Nordic and Baltic Countries Environmental Problems and Policies in Agriculture and Forestry (Nordic Council of Ministers, 1995). She also holds the Chair of the Ume School of Environmental Studies, a collaboration between Ume University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Ume.

Bjrn Forsberg is a doctoral student at the Department of Political Science, Ume University. He is currently writing his dissertation on the LA21 process in Sweden, with special emphasis on emerging tendencies at local level which given that sustainable development implies fundamental re-orientations in environmental, social and economic values indicate a potential conflict between a traditional and a new paradigm.

William M. Lafferty is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and Director of the Program for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society (ProSus) within the Research Council of Norway. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Association (IPSA), and member of the Governing Council of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. His most recent publications include

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