Emerging Environmental Governance

Author : Cameron Holley,Neil Gunningham,Clifford Shearing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134075621

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The New Environmental Governance by Cameron Holley,Neil Gunningham,Clifford Shearing Pdf

A bold and profoundly new way of governing environmental problems is palpable around the globe and aims to overcome the limitations of the interventionist state and its market alternative to offer more effective and legitimate solutions to today's most pressing environmental problems. The 'new environmental governance' (NEG) emphasises a host of novel characteristics including participation, collaboration, deliberation, learning and adaptation and 'new' forms of accountability. While these unique features have generated significant praise from legal and governance scholars, there have been very few systematic evaluations of NEG in practice, and it is still unclear whether NEG will in fact 'work', and if so, when and how. This book offers one of the most rigorous research investigations into cutting edge trends in environmental governance to date. Focusing its inquiry around some of the most central, controversial and/or under researched characteristics of NEG, the book offers fresh insights into the conditions under which we can best achieve successful collaboration, effective learning and adaptation, meaningful participatory and deliberative governance and effective forms of accountability. The book synthesizes its findings to identify seven key pillars of 'good' NEG that are central to its success and will provide useful guidance for policymakers and scholars seeking to apply new governance to a wide range of environmental and non-environmental policy contexts. The book also advances our understanding of State governance and will be a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and students working in law and regulation studies - especially in the field of environmental law.

Author : Cameron Holley,Neil Gunningham,Clifford Shearing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134075690

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The New Environmental Governance by Cameron Holley,Neil Gunningham,Clifford Shearing Pdf

A bold and profoundly new way of governing environmental problems is palpable around the globe and aims to overcome the limitations of the interventionist state and its market alternative to offer more effective and legitimate solutions to today's most pressing environmental problems. The 'new environmental governance' (NEG) emphasises a host of novel characteristics including participation, collaboration, deliberation, learning and adaptation and 'new' forms of accountability. While these unique features have generated significant praise from legal and governance scholars, there have been very few systematic evaluations of NEG in practice, and it is still unclear whether NEG will in fact 'work', and if so, when and how. This book offers one of the most rigorous research investigations into cutting edge trends in environmental governance to date. Focusing its inquiry around some of the most central, controversial and/or under researched characteristics of NEG, the book offers fresh insights into the conditions under which we can best achieve successful collaboration, effective learning and adaptation, meaningful participatory and deliberative governance and effective forms of accountability. The book synthesizes its findings to identify seven key pillars of 'good' NEG that are central to its success and will provide useful guidance for policymakers and scholars seeking to apply new governance to a wide range of environmental and non-environmental policy contexts. The book also advances our understanding of State governance and will be a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and students working in law and regulation studies - especially in the field of environmental law.

Author : Timothy Gieseke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429000447

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Collaborative Environmental Governance Frameworks by Timothy Gieseke Pdf

This book takes a practical approach to understanding and describing collaborative governance for resolving environmental problems. It introduces a new collaborative governance assessment model and recognizes that collaborations are a natural result of organizations converging around complex issues. Rather than identifying actors by their type of organization, the actors are identified by the type of role they play. This approach is aligned with how individuals and organizations interact in practice, and their dependance on collaborations to solve emerging environmental problems. The book discusses real cases with governance issues and creates new frameworks for collaborations. Features: Addresses communities at all levels and scales that are gravitating toward collaborations to solve their environmental issues. Prepares and enables individuals to participate in collaborative governance and design collaborative governance frameworks. Introduces the first simplified and standardized model to assess governance using governance actors and styles. Explains governance in simple terms and builds governance frameworks from the individual’s perspective; the smallest, viable unit of governance in a collaboration. Describes "tools of convergence" for collaborative leaders to organize and align activities to create shared-governance outcomes and outputs.

Author : James Evans,Craig Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781003833567

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Environmental Governance by James Evans,Craig Thomas Pdf

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process of steering society, governance has a critical role to play in coordinating these disparate voices and securing collective action to achieve a more sustainable future. Environmental Governance is the only book to discuss the first principles of governance, while also providing a critical overview of the wide-ranging theories and approaches that underpin policy and practice today. It places governance within its wider political context to explore how the environment is controlled, manipulated, regulated and contested by a range of actors and institutions. This book shows how network and market governance have shaped current approaches to environmental issues, while also introducing approaches such as transition management and adaptive governance. In so doing, it highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches currently in play, and considers their political implications. This second edition has been comprehensively updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition, with a new chapter on the environmental governance of outer space and updated analysis of international climate change summits. It provides a ground-breaking overview of dominant and emerging approaches of environmental governance, forging critical links between them. Each chapter has been updated with new case studies, key debates and figures, and includes questions for discussion and further reading. It is essential reading for students of the environment, politics and sociology, and, indeed, anyone concerned with changing society to secure a more sustainable future.

Author : Jérôme Duberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351613538

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Global Environmental Governance in the Information Age by Jérôme Duberry Pdf

This book examines the impact of current and emerging digital technologies on global environmental governance, and in particular on environmental civil society organizations. Technological innovations are constantly emerging: internet and social media platforms, blockchains, big data, and artificial intelligence are some of the most common or promising digital technologies of our times. Through case studies and the analysis of concrete applications of digital technologies, this book shows how these digital technologies can be deployed to support global environmental governance, and in particular a multi-stakeholder approach to the protection of the environment. It provides an overview of the diverse uses of these digital technologies by civil society organizations (CSOs) in global environmental governance. In this fast-changing context, the capacity of environmental CSOs to manage and benefit from digital technologies, and to produce and distribute information, can strengthen their participation in global environmental governance. Their key roles, including advocacy, monitoring, knowledge production, fundraising, nudging individual behaviors, and project implementation, greatly benefit from the use of these technologies. By examining some of the most-utilized current digital technologies and presenting some of the most prominent emerging ones, this book aims to illustrate how active civil society organizations operate, and how ICTs support some of their roles, and therefore their participation in global environmental governance. This book will appeal to scholars and students of environmental studies and politics, global governance, political sociology, geography and communication studies along with policy makers and communication specialists from the environmental community.

Author : Adil Najam,Mihaela Papa,International Institute for Sustainable Development,Nadaa Taiyab
Publisher : International Institute for Sustainable Development = Institut international du développement durable
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Environmental economics
ISBN : 189553691X

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Global Environmental Governance by Adil Najam,Mihaela Papa,International Institute for Sustainable Development,Nadaa Taiyab Pdf

Author : Yasuo Takao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317517788

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Japan’s Environmental Politics and Governance by Yasuo Takao Pdf

Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdiction, including the individual level, community level, national level, and global level. Much of the scholarly work surrounding new approaches to environmental governance tends to overlook the role of sub-national governments, but this study examines the potential of sub-national participation to make policy choices which are congruent with global strategies and national mandates. This book investigates the emerging actors and new channels of Japan’s environmental governance which has been taking shape within an increasingly globalized international system. By analysing this important new phenomenon, it sheds light on the changing nature of Japan’s environmental policy and politics, and shows how the links between global strategies, national mandates and local action serve as an influential factor in Japan’s changing structures of environmental governance. Further, it demonstrates that decision-making competencies are shared between actors operating at different levels and in new spheres of authority, resulting from collaboration between state and non-state actors. It highlights a number of the problems, challenges, and critiques of the actors in environmental governance, as well as raising new empirical and theoretical puzzles for the future study of governance over environmental and global issues. Finally, it concludes that changes in the tiers and new spheres of authority are leading the nation towards an environmentally stable future positioned within socio-economic and political constraints. Demonstrating that bridging policy gaps between local action, national policy and global strategies is potentially a way of reinventing environmental policy, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Environmental Studies, Environmental Politics and Japanese Politics.

Author : Jacob Park,Ken Conca,Matthias Finger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134059829

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The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance by Jacob Park,Ken Conca,Matthias Finger Pdf

Taking a critical perspective and providing a comprehensive framework on globalization and governance, this book examines what institutional mechanisms and arrangements will enable people to achieve sustainable environmental governance.

Author : Karin B‹ckstrand
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849806411

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Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy by Karin B‹ckstrand Pdf

This important new book provides an excellent critical evaluation of new modes of governance in environmental and sustainability policy. The multidisciplinary team of contributors combine fresh insights from all levels of governance all around a carefully crafted conceptual framework to advance our understanding of the effectiveness and legitimacy of new types of steering, including networks, public private partnerships, and multi-stakeholder dialogues. This is a crucial contribution to the field. Frank Biermann, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Can new modes of governance, such as public private partnerships, stakeholder consultations and networks, promote effective environmental policy performance as well as increased deliberative and participatory quality? This book argues that in academic inquiry and policy practice there has been a deliberative turn, manifested in a revitalized interest in deliberative democracy coupled with calls for novel forms of public private governance. By linking theory and practice, the contributors critically examine the legitimacy and effectiveness of new modes of governance, using a range of case studies on climate, forestry, water and food safety policies from local to global levels. Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy will appeal to scholars, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as researchers of environmental politics, international relations, environmental studies and political science. It will also interest practitioners involved in the actual design and implementation of new governance modes in areas of sustainable development, food safety, forestry and climate change.

Author : James Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136581335

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Environmental Governance by James Evans Pdf

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process of steering society, governance has a critical role to play in coordinating these disparate voices and securing collective action to achieve a more sustainable future. Environmental Governance is the only book to discuss the first principles of governance, while also providing a critical overview of the wide ranging theories and approaches that underpin policy and practice today. It places governance within its wider political context to explore how the environment is controlled, manipulated, regulated, and contested by a range of actors and institutions. This book shows how network and market governance have shaped current approaches to environmental issues, while also introducing emerging approaches such as transition management and adaptive governance. In so doing, it highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches currently in play, and considers their political implications. This text provides a groundbreaking overview of dominant and emerging approaches of environmental governance, drawing on cutting edge debates and forging critical links between them. Each chapter is complemented by case studies, key debates, questions for discussion and further reading. It is essential reading for students of the environment, politics and sociology, and, indeed, anyone concerned with changing society to secure a more sustainable future.

Author : Norichika Kanie,Peter M. Haas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9677009214

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Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance by Norichika Kanie,Peter M. Haas Pdf

Author : David L. Levy,Peter John Newell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262621886

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The Business of Global Environmental Governance by David L. Levy,Peter John Newell Pdf

Theoretical and empirical accounts of the role of business in shaping international environmental policies.

Author : Frances Seymour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : UOM:39015051917113

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Emerging Environmental Governance by Frances Seymour Pdf

Author : Magali A. Delmas,Oran R. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521519380

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Governance for the Environment by Magali A. Delmas,Oran R. Young Pdf

At the same time, confidence in the capacity of governments to meet this demand is waning.

Author : Andrea K. Gerlak,Tanya Heikkila
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009461092

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Learning for Environmental Governance by Andrea K. Gerlak,Tanya Heikkila Pdf

Learning is critical for our capacity to govern the environment and adapt proactively to complex and emerging environmental issues. Yet, underlying barriers can challenge our capacity for learning in environmental governance. As a result, we often fail to adequately understand pressing environmental problems or produce innovative and effective solutions. This Element synthesizes insights from extensive academic and applied research on learning around the world to inform both research and practice. We distill the social and structural features of governance to help researchers and practitioners better understand, diagnose, and support learning and more adaptive responses to environmental problems.