Multilevel Environmental Governance: Managing Water and Climate Change in Europe and North America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783472847 ISBN 13: 9781783472840

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The literature on multi-level governance (MLG), an approach that explicitly looks at the system of the many interacting authority structures at work in the global political economy, has grown significantly over the last decade. The authors in this volume examine how multilevel governance (MLG) systems address climate change and water policy.

By taking a comparative perspective, the contributors seek to examine the impact of multilevel governance on the environment. They show how the interplay between autonomous governments at the sub-national, federal or supranational and international levels in MLG systems create unique challenges and opportunities. Both cutting greenhouse gas emissions and allocating river flows require tough political or legal decisions that create winners and losers. This book offers a cogent examination of the successes and failures of the United States, European Union, Canada and Australia in grappling with these policy problems.

This book will appeal to academics and students of public policy, international affairs and environment studies. Those working in government institutions will find the research both interesting and invaluable.

Contributors: D. Benson, D.J. Fiorino, D. Gordon, B.T. Heinmiller, A. Jordan, K. Kern, D. Macdonald, J. Meadowcroft, M. Pallemaerts, B.G. Rabe, I. Weibust

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Edited by Inger Weibust, Assistant Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University and James Meadowcroft, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783472847
• ISBN 13: 9781783472840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Weibust Inger, Meadowcroft James