Environment and Sustainability

Dovers and Hussey present here a framework for the development of good public environment and sustainability policy, laying out in detail the processes required to demonstrate a credible effort to deliver desirable and effective behaviour change in pursuit of sustainability. This book advertises itself as a primer for improving policymakers' grasp of the challenges and opportunities that environment and sustainability pose for policymaking. It will also enlighten scientists with a solid understanding of their field but for whom government policy processes – including communications strategies, public consultation and drivers of large-scale behaviour change – remain a mystery. Especially educational for regulation advocates is the discussion of using a mix of policy instruments for different audiences and stages of the policy process, as necessary to truly change individuals’ and organisations’ motivations and behaviour. … Information is provided here in a well-structured and concise manner in very accessible prose … For many readers, its merit will be to remind them of what they once knew and should have remembered, while fleshing out a few areas of new knowledge. … it is very useful to provide the full scope of options in areas such as types of public consultation, criteria for policy instruments, available policy instruments and policy coordination. The handbook fulfils its mission as an excellent reference to be consulted as needed. Read full review... - Suzanne Hoverman, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, December 2014