Governance and Sustainable Development. Staffordshire University

The award thus examines the nature and role for governance in support of progress towards sustainable development.  The latter has become a key goal and principle for policy action at global and local levels.  The lack of sustainability characterising much development is mainly a crisis in governance.  The study of governance goes beyond the analysis of the formal institutions of nation-states and international regimes to encompass the relationship between the state and other important actors, including civil society and private business.  It provides the opportunity to examine the conceptual debates and analysis of the challenges that government, civil society and the private sector will need to face when engaging with the central tenets of sustainable development.