Governing the environment : salient institutional issues

Author(s)

• Breton, Albert
• Brosio, Giorgio
• Dalmazzone, Silvana
• Garrone, Giovanna

Bibliographic Information

Governing the environment : salient institutional issues

edited by Albert Breton ... [et al.]

（New horizons in environmental economics）

Edward Elgar, c2009

Note

Editors: Albert Breton, Giorgio Brosio, Silvana Dalmazzone, Giovanna Garrone

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Environmental policy, focusing on the control of pollution and on over-exploitation, easily overlooks the extensive range of interconnections between economic activities and natural systems. In this timely book, a number of specialists examine how crucial aspects of complex environmental problems and policy can be dealt with in decentralized governmental systems. Bridging the gap between the conventional environmental federalism literature and advances in environmental and ecological economics that have been made over the last two decades, this innovative book explores alternative solutions to the problem of assigning powers over the environment. It deals with important issues in environmental governance including interjurisdictional contracting, discounting, risk management, eliciting compliance, and environmental accounting - in each case concentrating on the comparative advantage of governments at different jurisdictional levels in implementing optimal policies. Offering a comprehensive approach to environmental policy, this book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students in environmental economics, environmental politics, governance and decentralization. It will also benefit practitioners and policy-makers with responsibilities over the environment.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface 1. Introduction Albert Breton, Giorgio Brosio, Silvana Dalmazzone and Giovanna Garrone PART I: INSTITUTIONS: ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF ASSIGNING POWERS OVER THE ENVIRONMENT 2. Contracts in the Vertical Assignment of Powers Over the Environment Anthony Scott 3. Privatization and Environmental Governance Marcia Valiante 4. The Contribution of Community Institutions to Environmental Problem-Solving Elinor Ostrom 5. Bicameralism and Environmental Legislation Giorgio Brosio 6. Fashioning Entitlements: A Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of the Judicial Role in Environmental Centralization in the United States and Europe Jason Scott Johnston and Michael G. Faure 7. Compliance in Decentralized Environmental Governance Albert Breton and Pierre Salmon PART II: ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: THE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT 8. Environmental Federalism with Regards to Accidental Pollution Klaas T. van 't Veld and Jason F. Shogren 9. Losing the Lands of Plenty? Time Scale and Discounting in Environmental Governance Sarah Lumley 10. Environmental Accounting at Different Levels of Government: The State of the Art Silvana Dalmazzone and Alessandra La Notte Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA91660844
• ISBN:
  • 9781847203977
• LCCN: 2009930864
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cheltenham
• Pages/Volumes: x, 307 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 363.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Environmental policy
  • LCSH : Environmental economics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA14117892