Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780521519380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 302 str.

Magali A. Delmas; Oran R. Young

Opis

Leading scholars from economics, management studies, and political science suggest effective environmental policies to mitigate human impact on the environment.

Recenzje

'This volume is a major contribution to the development of an integrated framework for the study of governance. It very effectively demonstrates how perspectives and models from several disciplines can be combined and integrated to yield new insight. We had better take notice!' Arild Underdal, University of Oslo

Spis treści

Part I. Central Threads and Analytic Perspectives: Introduction: new perspectives on governance for sustainable development Magali A. Delmas and Oran R. Young; 1. Governance for sustainable development in a world of rising interdependencies Oran R. Young; Part II. Governance for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives from Economics, Political Science, and Management: 2. Environmental governance: an economic perspective Thomas P. Lyon; 3. Environmental governance and political science Maria Carmen Lemos and Arun Agrawal; 4. Self-regulatory institutions for solving environmental problems: perspectives and contributions from the management literature Andrew King and Michael W. Toffel; Part III. The Effectiveness of Governance for Sustainable Development: 5. Transnational actors and global environmental governance Virginia Haufler; 6. The effectiveness of voluntary environmental initiatives Madhu Khanna and Keith Brouhle; 7. The emergence of non-state market driven (NSMD) global environmental governance: a cross-sectoral assessment Graeme Auld, Cristina Balboa, Steven Bernstein, and Benjamin Cashore; Part IV. Conclusion: 8. Research opportunities in the area of governance for sustainable development Magali A. Delmas.