Environmental Governance Reconsidered : Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities

by Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino and Rosemary O'Leary (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262042185
• ISBN10: 0262042185
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates and approaches, and in-depth analysis of concepts treated less thoroughly in other texts. The contributing authors, all distinguished scholars or practitioners, offer a comprehensive examination of key topics in environmental governance today, including perspectives from environmental economics, democratic theory, public policy, law, political science, and public administration. Environmental Governance Reconsideredis the first book to integrate these wide-ranging topics and perspectives thematically in one volume. Many are calling for a change in the bureaucratic, adversarial, technology-based regulatory approach that is the basis for much environmental policy -- a move from "rule-based" to "results-based" regulation. Each of the thirteen chapters in Environmental Governance Reconsideredcritically examines one aspect of this "second generation" of environmental reform, assesses its promise-versus-performance to date, and points out future challenges and opportunities. The first section of the book, "Reconceptualizing Purpose," discusses the concepts of sustainability, global interdependence, the precautionary principle, and common pool resource theory. The second section, "Reconnecting with Stakeholders," examines deliberative democracy, civic environmentalism, environmental justice, property rights and regulatory takings, and environmental conflict resolution. The final section, "Redefining Administrative Rationality," analyzes devolution, regulatory flexibility, pollution prevention, and third-party environmental management systems auditing. This book will benefit students, scholars, managers, natural resource specialists, policymakers, and reformers and is ideal for class adoption.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(28)
Robert F. Durant, Rosemary O'Leary, and Daniel J. Fiorino
I Reconceptualizing Purpose	29	(148)
Robert F. Durant
1 Sustainability	35	(34)
Robert C. Paehlke
2 Global Interdependence	69	(36)
Gary C. Bryner
3 The Precautionary Principle	105	(40)
Robert F. Durant with Thanit Boodphetcharat
4 Common-Pool Resource Theory	145	(38)
Edella Schlager
II Reconnecting with Stakeholders	177	(178)
Robert E Durant
5 Deliberative Democracy	183	(36)
James Meadowcroft
6 Civic Environmentalism	219	(36)
DeWitt John
7 Environmental Justice	255	(34)
Evan J. Ringquist
8 Property Rights and Regulatory Takings	289	(34)
Charles R. Wise
9 Environmental Conflict Resolution	323	(32)
Rosemary O'Leary, Tina Nabatchi, and Lisa B. Bingham
III Redefining Administrative Rationality	355	(128)
10 Devolution	361	(32)
Denise Scheberle
11 Flexibility	393	(34)
Daniel J. Fiorino
12 Pollution Prevention	427	(28)
Ken Geiser
13 Third-Party Auditing of Environmental Management Systems	455	(28)
Jan Mazurek
Conclusion	483	(44)
Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary
About the Contributors	527	(4)
Index	531