01060pab a2200157 454500 180718b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Yencken, David Governance for sustainability 2002 p.78-89. Jun Environmental policies and responses are strongly influenced by a government's knowledge and understanding of environmental problems, its assessment of their severity, the expert opinions available to it on the size of the response needed, its understanding of the driving forces leading to environmental deterioration and the influence of prevailing theories and paradigms. Environmental policy cannot furthermore exist in a policy vacuum. Environmental goals may or may not be strongly weighted compared to other societal goals especially economic goals. All these influences have major bearing on the approach taken by governments to environmental policy . - Reproduced. Environmental policy Australian Journal of Public Administration 52967 52967 52967 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 61, Issue no: 2 AR53397 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR