OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme

← Back to document page

OECD Environmental PerformanceReview ProgrammeAccountability (f)or Learning?MARKKU LEHTONENUniversity of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, FranceThe growing interest in evaluation as a new form of environmentalgovernance stems from two developments: the movement towards NewPublic Management, and the search for new policy instruments for managingcomplexity, uncertainty and plurality of values in the pursuit of sustainabledevelopment. The former holds increasing accountability as the mainpurpose of evaluation, while the latter stresses the importance of approaches are often considered as mutually exclusive, but recentliterature has underlined their complementary roles in policy making.

on Environmental Performance (WPEP) since May 1996,1 as a country expert on teams reviewing the environmental performance of Mexico (1997–8) and Russia (1998), and as an OECD …

  Performance, Code, Review, Programme, Environmental, Environmental performance, Oecd environmental performance review programme