Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives

We live in an era of human-dominated ecosystems in which the demand for environmental governance is rising rapidly. At the same time confidence in the capacity of governments to meet this demand is waning. How can we address the resultant governance deficit and achieve sustainable development? This book brings together perspectives from economics, management, and political science in order to identify innovative approaches to governance and bring them to bear on environmental issues. The authors' analysis of important cases demonstrates how governance systems need to fit their specific setting and how effective policies can be developed without relying exclusively on government. They argue that the future of environmental policies lies in co-ordinated systems that simultaneously engage actors located in the public sector, the private sector, and civil society. Governing the Environment draws attention to cutting-edge questions for practitioners and analysts interested in environmental governance.

Magali A. Delmas is an Associate Professor of Management at the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, LOS Angeles, and Director of the UCLA Center for Cooperate Environmental Performance. Oran R. Young is a Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a Co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School, and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on global Environment Change.