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

"Durant, Fiorino, and O'Leary have done us all a great service by bringing this excellent set of essays together in one volume. Those interested in making substantial reforms of environmental policy need to take this book seriously. It provides the basis for more effective ways of working with stakeholders, ensuring equity and conflict resolution, and devising governance solutions at multiple levels." Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Government, Indiana University, and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and the Center for the Study of Population, Institutions, and Environmental Change ' Environmental Governance Reconsidered summarizes the best current thinking on environmental policy and management. The book seems to me to do exactly what an excellent edited collection should do. It is also an excellent text for a course on environmental policy and management. The conceptualization of the field as represented by the topics and their treatment is a major contribution to environmental policy studies.' Steven Cohen, Director, Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy, School of International and Public Affairs and Earth Institute, Columbia University "*Environmental Governance Reconsidered* summarizes the best current thinking on environmental policy and management. The book seems to me to do exactly what an excellent edited collection should do. It is also an excellent text for a course on environmental policy and management. The conceptualization of the field as represented by the topics and their treatment is a major contribution to environmental policy studies."--Steven Cohen, School of International and Public Affairs and Earth Institute, Columbia University

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 Reconsidered is 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 Reconsidered critically 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.