Joining up or pulling apart? The use of appraisal to coordinate policy making for sustainable development

Russel, Duncan and Jordan, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7678-1024 (2009) Joining up or pulling apart? The use of appraisal to coordinate policy making for sustainable development. Environment and Planning A, 41 (5). pp. 1201-1216.

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Abstract

Coordinated (or 'joined-up') approaches to policy making are said to be an immensely important ingredient in the effective governance of sustainable development. There are, however, few detailed empirical studies of how well different policy coordination instruments perform in relation to this task. This paper identifies the United Kingdom as a critical test of how to achieve better policy coordination because it has been regularly identified as an exemplar of best practice in international benchmarking exercises. Specifically, it examines the integration of the environment into mainstream policy making through the application of policy appraisal in the strategically important areas of energy, defence, and public spending. Overall, it finds that the UK's much vaunted approach to coordinating the governance of sustainable development has struggled to tame the forces of departmentalism. While deploying carefully packaged combinations of coordinating instruments may address some causes of non-joine-up behaviour, perfectly coherent policy making is always likely to remain tantalisingly out of reach.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User: Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2011 11:27
Last Modified: 15 Jun 2023 23:53
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/24406
DOI: 10.1068/a4142

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