Environmental Governance Reconsidered – Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) - Softcover

Durant, Robert F.; Fiorino, Daniel J.; O`leary, Rosemary; Axelrod, Regina; Vandeveer, Stacy D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262533316 ISBN 13: 9780262533317

Publisher: MIT Press, 2017

Synopsis

Key topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material.

This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates, and in-depth analysis. The contributing authors, all distinguished scholars or practitioners, offer a comprehensive examination of key topics in the continuing evolution of environmental governance, with perspectives from public policy, public administration, political science, international relations, sustainability theory, environmental economics, risk analysis, and democratic theory.

The second edition of this popular reader has been thoroughly revised, with updated coverage and new topics. The emphasis has shifted from sustainability to include sustainable cities, from domestic civic environmentalism to global civil society, and from global interdependence to the evolution of institutions of global environmental governance. A general focus on devolution of authority in the United States has been sharpened to address the specifics of contested federalism and fracking, and the treatment of flexibility now explores the specifics of regulatory innovation and change. New chapters join original topics such as environmental justice and collaboration and conflict resolution to address highly salient and timely topics: energy security; risk assessment, communication, and technology innovation; regulation-by-revelation; and retrospective regulatory analysis.

The topics are organized and integrated by the book's “3R” framework: reconceptualizing governance to reflect ecological risks and interdependencies better, reconnecting with stakeholders, and reframing administrative rationality. Extensive cross-references pull the chapters together. A broad reference list enables readers to pursue topics further.

Contributors
Regina S. Axelrod, Robert F. Durant, Kirk Emerson, Daniel J. Fiorino, Anne J. Kantel, David M. Konisky, Michael E. Kraft, Jennifer Kuzma, Richard Morgenstern, Tina Nabatchi, Rosemary O'Leary, Barry Rabe, Walter A. Rosenbaum, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Paul Wapner

About this title

About the Authors

Robert F. Durant is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Affairs, American University.

Daniel J. Fiorino is Director of the Center for Environmental Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University.

Rosemary O'Leary is Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Kansas.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262533316
• ISBN 13: 9780262533317
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544