Governance by Evaluation for Sustainable

Governance by
Evaluation for
Sustainable
Institutional Capacities and Learning
Edited by
Michal Sedlacko
Research Fellow, Research Institute for Managing
Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics and Business
(WU Wien), Vienna, Austria
Andre Martinuzzi
Director, Research Institute for Managing Sustainability,
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien),
Vienna, Austria
EVALUATING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
1 Governance for sustainable development, evaluation and learning:
an introduction
Michal Sedlacko and Andre Martinuzzi
PART I
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LEARNING THROUGH EVALUATION
2 The politics of sustainability evaluation: analysis of three Austrian
strategies for sustainable development
Michael Pregernig, Karl Hogl and RalfNordbeck
3 Tools for learning-oriented environmental appraisal
Mans Nilsson
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PART II INSTITUTIONALISING SD CONCERNS IN EUROPEAN
POLICY MAKING
4 Integrating sustainable development into impact assessment:
how effective is the European Commission?
Jennifer Franz and Colin Kirkpatrick
5 Monitoring the expected impacts of the 7th EU Framework
Programme on sustainable development - a case study
on governance by evaluation
Andre Martinuzzi
6 From a European Court of Auditors' Report to a learning
process? The challenge to integrate the environment into
the European Community's development assistance
Axel Johannes Olearius, lola Leal Riesco and Sally Nicholson
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PART III DEALING WITH MULTI-STAKEHOLDER CONTEXTS
7 Evaluation of public participation towards sustainable water
management: an institutional perspective
Gul Ozerol
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Governance by Evaluation for Sustainable Development
8 Dynamic decision analysis for monitoring and facilitating the Dutch
Costa Due stakeholder dialogue on sustainable energy
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Kirsten Hollaender and Frans Stokman
9 Participatory livelihoods system appraisal: a learning-oriented
methodology for impact assessment
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Martin Strele
10 Towards a process for eliciting criteria weights and enhancing
capacity of stakeholders in ex ante evaluation of climate policies
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Stelios Grafakos, Dimitrios Zevgolis and Vlasis Oikonomou
PART IV DEVELOPING LEARNING CAPACITY IN ORGANISATIONS
11 Assessment of outcome mapping as a tool for evaluating and
monitoring support to civil society organisations
Steve Powell, Joakim Molander and Ivona Celebidic
12 Development of a learning-oriented monitoring system for
sustainable agriculture chain development in Eastern Indonesia
SteffDeprez
13 Process monitoring of impacts and its application in
Structural Fund programmes
Richard Hummelbrunner
14 Participatory ex ante evaluation of long-term infrastructure
plans as a policy-learning process
Eckhard Stormer and Bernhard Truffer
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PART V REFLECTING EVALUATION TOOLS: PERSPECTIVES
AND PITFALLS
15 The role of visualisation within sustainability evaluation
processes
Harald Wilfing and Ulrike Bechtold
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Index
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