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This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.

Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-Making and Multi-Level Interactions

List of Tables List of Figures Preface; E.Zaccai Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments; K.Van den Brande , H.Bruyninckx & S.Happaerts PART I: SUBNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES The Social and Political Construction of Sustainable Development in Quebec: A Critical Analysis of the Quebec Sustainable Development Policy; R.Audet & C.Gendron Inclusive Governance or Incrementalism? The Choice of a Sustainable Development Governance Model for Flanders; K.Bachus & S.Spillemaeckers Sustainable Development Policies in the Basque Country; A.de la Pena & I.Barcena Sustainable Development in Wallonia: Trial and Error Along Two Tracks of Governance; S.Happaerts Governance for Sustainable Development in the German Bundesländer; K.Jörgensen Dutch Provincial Sustainable Development Policies: Ambitions and Differences; F.Coenen PART II: MULTI-LEVEL INTERACTIONS IN A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT Spanish Subnational Involvement in Multi-Level Sustainable Development Issues; K.Hanf & F.Morata A 'Responsibility' to Act Globally: Investigating the Welsh Assembly Government's Engagement in nrg4SD; E.Royles Routes to Global Decision-Making: Flanders in the UN and OECD Discussions on Sustainable Development; K.Van den Brande Subnational Involvement in EU Policy-Making: The Case of Scottish Flood Risk Management; A.Högenauer Green Paradiplomacy in North America: Successes and Limits of the NEG-ECP; A.Chaloux & S.Paquin Conclusion The State of Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Subnational Level; K.Van den Brande , S.Happaerts & H.Bruyninckx Index