Governance for the Environment

Governance for the Environment

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 coordinated systems that simultaneously engage actors located in the public sector, the private sector, and civil society. Governance for the Environment draws attention to cutting-edge questions for practitioners and analysts interested in environmental governance.

Magali A. Delmas is Associate Professor of Management at the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance.

Oran R. Young is Professor at the Donald 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 Donald Bren School, and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.

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Magali A. Delmas

Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Oran R. Young

Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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Delmas, Magali A.
Governance for the environment : new perspectives / Magali A. Delmas, Oran R. Young.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-521-51938-0 (hardback) 1. Sustainable development–Government
policy. 2. Environmental policy. 3. Environmentalism–Economic aspects.
4. Environmentalism–Political aspects. I. Young, Oran R. II. Title.
HC79.E5D4467 2009
338.9′27–dc22
2009018065

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Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Part I    Central threads and analytic perspectives	1
Introduction: new perspectives on governance for sustainable development Magali A. Delmas and Oran R. Young	3
1         Governance for sustainable development in a world of rising interdependencies Oran R. Young	12
Part II   Governance for solving environmental problems: perspectives from economics, political science, and management	41
2         Environmental governance: an economic perspective Thomas P. Lyon	43
3         Environmental governance and political science Maria Carmen Lemos and Arun Agrawal	69
4         Self-regulatory institutions for solving environmental problems: perspectives and contributions from the management literature Andrew King and Michael W. Toffel	98
Part III  The effectiveness of governance for sustainable development	117
5         Transnational actors and global environmental governance Virginia Haufler	119
6         The effectiveness of voluntary environmental initiatives Madhu Khanna and Keith Brouhle	144
7         The emergence of non-state market-driven (NSMD) global environmental governance: a cross-sectoral assessment Graeme Auld, Cristina Balboa, Steven Bernstein, and Benjamin Cashore	183
Part IV   Conclusion	219
8         Research opportunities in the area of governance for sustainable development Magali A. Delmas	221
References	239
Index	275

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Figures

1         Mapping environmental governance systems	8
2         Multi-partner governance	78
3         The three phases of NSMD governance	191

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Tables

6.1       Summary of voluntary environmental initiatives and studies reviewed	148
6.2       Key attributes of voluntary environmental initiatives	156
7.1       Key features of NSMD governance	188
8.1       The elements of a context-oriented analysis of the effectiveness of alternative governance mechanisms	237

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Contributors

Arun Agrawal Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

Graeme Auld Doctoral Student in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

Cristina Balboa Doctoral Student in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

Steven Bernstein Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Keith Brouhle Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

Benjamin Cashore Professor of Environmental Governance and Political Science in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

Virginia Haufler Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Madhu Khanna Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Andrew King Associate Professor of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Maria Carmen Lemos Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

Thomas P. Lyon Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, University of Michigan

Michael W. Toffel Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

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