The United Kingdom's sustainable development strategies: leading the way or flattering to deceive?
The United Kingdom's sustainable development strategies: leading the way or flattering to deceive?
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英国可持续发展战略：引领还是奉承欺骗？
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10.1002/eet.449
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2007
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D. Russel
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作者：
D. Russel
英国（UK）是欧盟（EU）国家推行可持续发展战略的先锋。从上世纪90年代初开始，德国就在环境政策协调方面有着悠久的历史。1994年，德国成为第一个发布可持续发展战略的欧盟成员国。本文对英国连续几次可持续发展战略的发展进行了分析。它表明，追求可持续发展已越来越多地得到明显的高层政治支持和广泛的行政程序、机制和工具。然而，尽管有这种有利的环境，本文的分析表明，到目前为止，SD并没有显著影响英国的政策制定。政府对可持续发展定义的不一致尤其阻碍了进展；关于政治支持是否持续和坚定的问题；以及追求可持续发展的不同管理机制、工具和过程之间缺乏整合。因此，民主党正在努力取得进展，以反对传统经济问题在英国决策中的主导地位。版权所有©2007 John Wiley & Sons， Ltd和ERP Environment。
The United Kingdom (UK) is at the vanguard of European Union (EU) states pursuing strategies for sustainable development (SD). It has a long history of environmental policy coordination dating from the early 1990s, and in 1994 it became the first EU member to publish a SD strategy. This paper charts the development of the UK's successive SD strategies. It demonstrates that the pursuit of SD has been increasingly supported by apparent high-level political backing and an expansive array of administrative processes, mechanisms and tools. However, despite this favourable environment, the analysis in this paper shows that SD, to date, has not significantly influenced UK policy making. Progress has been particularly hampered by: inconsistency in the government's definition of SD; questions over whether political backing is sustained and committed; and poor integration between the different administrative mechanisms, tools and processes to pursue SD. Consequently, SD is struggling to make headway against the dominance of traditional economic concerns in UK decision making. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.