Mainstreaming Environmental Stewardship in Government Strategy and Policy

Murray Petrie ()

Chapter Chapter 3 in Environmental Governance and Greening Fiscal Policy, 2021, pp 43-60 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract GDP growth remains unduly dominant in the highest-level statements of government strategy and policy objectives although there is increasing recognition of the need to incorporate key physical environmental outcomes in a dashboard of core indicators of social and economic progress. Comparing environmental governance with that of fiscal and monetary policy reveals a lack of requirements to set and report against time-bound environmental targets for key parameters (climate change aside). Furthermore, if environmental goals and targets are to have an impact, they need to be incorporated in government strategy and in the government’s most powerful cross-sector policy integration tool: fiscal policy and the annual budget cycle.

Keywords: Limitations of GDP; Key national indicators; Target transparency; Comparative policy governance; Environmental mainstreaming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83796-9_3

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