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Vol.3 , No. 1, Publication Date: Mar. 1, 2016, Page: 1-11
| [1] | Miguel Moreno Plata, Political Science and Urban Management, Autonomous University of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico. |
The complex and multidimensional nature of sustainable development is essential to explain the growing unsustainability in the world. The public policies implemented more than two decades ago have been ineffective. This situation is the result to various causes, but in the field of state and public administration stands out the lack of articulation between environmental policies and objectives of sustainability. It is not enough the political will of communities and institutions in the different geographical scales, because the lack or deficient coordination between ecological and social systems, including institutional arrangements, plays a fundamental role in the failure of public policy. The adoption of new approaches like the cross-cutting provides good chances to advance in the articulation of the various dimensions and scales of sustainable development, mainly to improve interactions between institutions and ecological processes. However, its adoption by the governments and public administrations faces serious challenges, many of which are related to the Weberian matrix of most of the current institutional arrangements. The possibilities of cross-scale policy depend, to a great extent, of deep transformations that affect the foundations and principles of bureaucratic organizations. This task should start by revising the legal framework that supports and favors the sectorial treatment of environmental and developmental problems; inasmuch that law is the cornerstone of public administration and the integration of the respective public agendas. The case of Mexico illustrates the limits and possibilities of cross policies within the current institutional arrangements face up to unsustainable trends in the contemporary world.
Keywords
Cross-Cutting Policies, Environment Policies, Sustainable Development, Public Administration, Government
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