Journal article
Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?
Sustainability, Vol.9(2), 165
2017
Abstract
For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging from international agreements, to national strategies, environmental laws at many levels of government, regional programs, and local plans. Despite these efforts, decades of scientific monitoring indicate that the world is no closer to environmental sustainability and in many respects the situation is getting worse. This paper argues that a significant contributing factor to this situation is policy implementation failure. A systematic review of the literature reveals that the failure to achieve the intended outcomes of environmental policies is due to economic, political and communication factors. Conflict between the objectives of environmental policies and those focused on economic development, a lack of incentives to implement environmental policies, and a failure to communicate objectives to key stakeholders are all key factors that contribute to the inability to attain environmental sustainability.
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- Title
- Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?
- Authors
- Michael Howes (Author) - Griffith UniversityLiana Wortley (Author) - University of Technology SydneyRuth Potts (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityAysin Dedekorkut-Howes (Author) - Griffith UniversitySilvia Serrao-Neumann (Author) - Griffith UniversityJulie Davidson (Author) - University of TasmaniaTimothy F Smith (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawPatrick Nunn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Sustainability, Vol.9(2), 165; 17
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.3390/su9020165
- ISSN
- 2071-1050; 2071-1050
- Copyright note
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450463202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
- Research Statement
- false
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