Title: From *for* to governance for sustainable development in Europe: what is at stake for further research?

Authors: Katharine N. Farrell, Rene Kemp, Friedrich Hinterberger, Christian Rammel, Rafael Ziegler

Addresses: Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK. ' MERIT, Maastricht University, TNO, P.O. Box 6030, NL- 2600 JA Delft, Maastricht, The Netherlands. ' Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Garnisongasse 7/27, Vienna A-1090, Austria. ' Institute for Anthropology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, Vienna A-1091, Austria ' Department of Philosophy, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract: Following conferences in Pignans, Maastricht, Vienna and Cologne and many e-mail exchanges, the participants of the GoSD-research initiative have identified a path for future research that describes not only governance and sustainable development but also how governance can be *for* sustainable development. This concluding paper gives an account of the pre-analytic vision, hypotheses and questions that have so far emerged from this process. Given the difficulty and importance of the task, a first section focuses on methodological questions. Consecutive sections elucidate *for sustainable development*, as well as ||governance for||. The emerging pre-analytic vision then receives some in-depth treatment and we consider how to measure the *for* of governance for sustainable development through objectives and indicators, taking into account the paradox of change with conservation. This sets the stage for a final section on research hypothesis and questions that give a meaning to governance for sustainable development, and that will allow this research project to develop in a way that makes insight and useful policy recommendations possible.

Keywords: governance; methodology; socio-economics; post-normal science; sustainable development; sustainability; policy; European Union.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.2005.007379

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2005 Vol.8 No.1/2, pp.127 - 150

Published online: 14 Jul 2005 *

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