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Rhetoric or reality? Responding to the challenge of sustainable development and new governance patterns in Ireland

The chapter focuses on sustainable development and the new patterns of governance in Ireland. It is located in the work of three authors, who has previously cooperated together on a book project, Europeanisation and New Patterns of Governance in Ireland (MUP). It is based on primary documentation and interviews undertaken at national and sub-national level in Ireland. The chapter concludes that while there is evidence of experimentation of new modes of governance, this is not necessarily stimulated by the principles of sustainable development. It suggests that the impact of Europeanisation and adherence to neo-corporatist arrangements accounts for the changes and modes of experimentation. All there authors equally contributed to the chapter.