Environmental Governance Reconsidered, second edition: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
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Environmental Governance Reconsidered, second edition: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
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Overview
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
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262338721 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Publication date: | 08/25/2017 |
| Series: | American and Comparative Environmental Policy |
| Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 544 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
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.
Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the coeditor of Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press).
Michael E. Kraft is Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs Emeritus and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Barry G. Rabe is J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan, where his primary appointment is in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He also directs the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at the Ford School and is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Paul Wapner is Professor of Global Environmental Politics in the School of International Service at American University. He is the author of Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics, winner of the 1997 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book on international environmental affairs.
David M. Konisky is Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the coeditor of Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press).
Rosemary O'Leary is Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Kansas.
Daniel J. Fiorino is Director of the Center for Environmental Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University.
Robert F. Durant is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Affairs, American University.
Robert F. Durant is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Affairs, American University.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword xi
Preface xv
Introduction Robert F. Durant 1
I Reconceptualizing Purpose 35
1 Global Environmental Governance Regina S. Axelrod Stacy D. VanDeveer 43
2 Sustainability and Environmental Policy Michael E. Kraft 75
3 Energy Security Walter A. Rosenbaum 101
4 Contested Federalism and Fracking Barry G. Rabe 133
II Reconnecting with Citizens and Stakeholders 165
5 Global Civil Society Paul Wapner Anne J. Kantel 175
6 Environmental Justice David M. Konisky 205
7 Risk, Environmental Governance, and Emerging Biotechnology Jennifer Kuzma 235
8 Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution Kirk Emerson Tina Nabatchi Rosemary O'Leary 263
III Redefining Administrative Rationality 297
9 Regulatory Innovation and Change Daniel J. Fiorino 307
10 Regulation-by-Revelation Robert F. Durant 337
11 Retrospective Regulatory Analysis Richard D. Morgenstern 369
Conclusion Robert F. Durant 395
Contributors 433
Bibliography 439
Index 499
Series List 519
What People are Saying About This
Those willing to think outside the box will find this collection of essays an extraordinary resource. Like the first edition more than a decade ago, this volume explores a wide panoply of alternatives to traditional environmental regulation that can bring us closer to a 'results-based sense of common purpose.' But the distinguished editors and contributors to this edition dig much deeper into both the conceptual underpinnings and practical obstacles to these innovations at a time of escalating national and global urgency. No other work explains the complexity and interdependence of rapidly evolving institutions of governance at all levels so thoroughly.
The second edition of Environmental Governance Reconsidered updates and modernizes the arguments made in the first edition, and continues to present a fresh look at the most timely issues of environmental policy in the U.S. and globally.It takes on a wide array of contentious political issues embedded in environmental policies and governance, including energy security, sustainability, hydraulic fracturing, biotechnology, regulatory reform, and market-based approaches. In the process, it lays bare the challenges and pitfalls that will inevitably determine the efficacy of environmental governance for years to come.
An excellent, welcome addition to the environmental policy and administration literature. This book is well conceived, edited, and written. It pulls together an impressive collection of essays from most of the leading scholars writing on environmental policy today. It articulates, all in one place, a progressive, informed and intellectual environment governance reform agenda. I especially appreciated the book's breadth in discussing governance problem (and reform opportunities) in the US today. It's really all there—participatory reforms, administrative chances, policy tool reforms, and institutional constraints.
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.
The new edition of Environmental Governance Reconsidered is exactly what you would expect from these world-class scholars of environmental policy. All the key issues of environmental policy are presented with depth, insight and clarity. The volume analyzes the impact of environmental risk on democratic governance and public administration and is an essential read for both students and experts in environmental policy.
—Steven Cohen, Executive Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia UniversityThe editors perform a truly impressive balancing act with this volume. They have recruited internationally recognized environmental scholars and practitioners in the field, and have successfully steered these authors to be ambitious yet accessible in their discussions of environmental policy, administration and governance. The extremely well-written chapters combine both profound conceptual ideas and policy considerations that do not date with an up-to-date analysis of the recent trajectories of environmental policy.The volume will strongly benefit and appeal to both new students of environmental governance and established experts alike, speaking not just to the environmental situation in the United States but globally as well.
The second edition of Environmental Governance Reconsidered updates and modernizes the arguments made in the first edition, and continues to present a fresh look at the most timely issues of environmental policy in the U.S. and globally. It takes on a wide array of contentious political issues embedded in environmental policies and governance, including energy security, sustainability, hydraulic fracturing, biotechnology, regulatory reform, and market-based approaches. In the process, it lays bare the challenges and pitfalls that will inevitably determine the efficacy of environmental governance for years to come.
—Kent E. Portney, Professor and Director, Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Texas A&M University; author of Taking Sustainable Cities SeriouslyThose willing to think outside the box will find this collection of essays an extraordinary resource. Like the first edition more than a decade ago, this volume explores a wide panoply of alternatives to traditional environmental regulation that can bring us closer to a 'results-based sense of common purpose.' But the distinguished editors and contributors to this edition dig much deeper into both the conceptual underpinnings and practical obstacles to these innovations at a time of escalating national and global urgency. No other work explains the complexity and interdependence of rapidly evolving institutions of governance at all levels so thoroughly.
—Norman J. Vig, Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Emeritus, Carleton College; coeditor of Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century and Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European UnionThe editors perform a truly impressive balancing act with this volume. They have recruited internationally recognized environmental scholars and practitioners in the field, and have successfully steered these authors to be ambitious yet accessible in their discussions of environmental policy, administration and governance. The extremely well-written chapters combine both profound conceptual ideas and policy considerations that do not date with an up-to-date analysis of the recent trajectories of environmental policy. The volume will strongly benefit and appeal to both new students of environmental governance and established experts alike, speaking not just to the environmental situation in the United States but globally as well.
—Anthony R. Zito, Professor of European Public Policy and Joint Editor of Environmental Politics; Codirector of the Jean Monnet Centre, Newcastle UniversityThe new edition of Environmental Governance Reconsidered is exactly what you would expect from these world-class scholars of environmental policy. All the key issues of environmental policy are presented with depth, insight and clarity. The volume analyzes the impact of environmental risk on democratic governance and public administration and is an essential read for both students and experts in environmental policy.
—Steven Cohen, Executive Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia UniversityThe extraordinary scope of this collection is matched by the depth and outstanding quality of almost all the contributions. Anyone—whether scholar, student, or interested member of the public—who wants to know about the cutting edge of environmental policy should read this book.
This is a terrific book. It is unique in its breadth of coverage and its timeliness. I see it being adopted for any advanced undergraduate or graduate-level course on environmental policy or environmental politics. It seems to me far better than any other single work on the market today, and it is a breath of fresh air to see virtually all of the major political issues and arguments presented so competently in a single volume.
The new edition of Environmental Governance Reconsidered is exactly what you would expect from these world-class scholars of environmental policy. All the key issues of environmental policy are presented with depth, insight and clarity. The volume analyzes the impact of environmental risk on democratic governance and public administration and is an essential read for both students and experts in environmental policy.