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Book SynopsisLife on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events. Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua Schuster proposes that different discourses of limits and lastness appear in specific extinction events over time as a response to changing attitudes toward species frailty. Understanding these extinction events also involves examining what happens when the conceptual and cultural forms used to account for species finitude are pressed to their limits as well. Schuster provides close readings of several case studies of extinction that bring together environmental humanities and multispecies methods with media-specific analyses at the terminus of life. What Is Extinction? delves into the development of last animal photography, the anthropological and psychoanalytic fascination with human origins and ends, the invention of new literary genres of last fictions, the rise of new extreme biopolitics in the Third Reich that attempted to change the meaning of extinction, and the current pursuit of de-extinction technologies. Schuster offers timely interpretations of how definitions and visions of extinction have changed in the past and continue to change in the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Part I 1 Photographing the Last Animal | 43 2 Indigeneity and Anthropology in Last Worlds | 69 Part II 3 Literary Extinctions and the Existentiality of Reading | 109 4 Concepts of Extinction in the Holocaust | 134 Part III 5 Critical Theory for the Critically Endangered | 167 6 What Is De-Extinction? | 198 Conclusion | 231 Acknowledgments | 247 Notes | 251 Index | 279

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Book SynopsisBased on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet offers an illuminating first-person ethnographic perspective on climate change negotiations. Focusing on the Paris Agreement, anthropologist Naveeda Khan introduces readers to the only existing global approach to the problem of climate change, one that took nearly thirty years to be collectively agreed upon. She shares her detailed descriptions of COP21 to COP25 and growing understanding of the intricacies of the climate negotiation process, leading her to ask why countries of the Global South invested in this slow-moving process and to explore how they have maneuvered it. With a focus on the Bangladeshi delegation at the COPs, Khan draws out what it means to be a small, poor, and dependent country within the negotiation process. Her interviews with negotiators within country delegations uncover their pathways to the negotiating tables. Through observations of training sessions of negotiators of the Global South, Khan seeks to reveal understandings of what is or is not achievable within negotiated texts and the power of deal-making and deferrals. She profiles individuals who had committed themselves to the climate negotiation process, moving between the Secretariat, Parties, activists, and the wider UN system to bring their principles, strategies, emotions, and visions into view. She explores how the newest pillar of climate action, loss and damage, emerged historically and how developed countries attempted to control it in the process. Khan suggests that we understand the Global South’s pursuit of loss and damage not only as a politics of forcing the issue of a conjoined future upon the Global North, but as a gift to the youth of the world to secure that future. With this book Khan hopes to rekindle an older way of doing politics through the tenets of diplomacy upheld by the UN that have been overshadowed of late by the politics of confrontation. She stresses that while the tension between efforts of equity and solidarity and global economic competition, which have run through the negotiation process, might undercut the urgency to carry out climate mitigation, it needs to be addressed for meaningful and sustainable climate action. Deeply insightful and highly readable, In Quest of a Shared Planet is a stirring call to action that highlights the key role responsive and active youth have in climate negotiations. It is an invitation not only to understand the climate negotiation process, but also to navigate it (for those planning to attend sessions themselves) and to critique it—with, the author hopes, sympathy and an eye to viable alternatives. In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.Table of ContentsList of Acronyms and Abbreviations | ix Bodies under the UNFCCC | xiii Introduction: The Climate Regime | 1 1 How to COP | 11 2 The Voice of Bangladesh | 38 3 Who Wants to Be a Negotiator? | 59 4 Politics in Between-Spaces | 78 5 Accounting for Change in the Paris Agreement | 104 6 A Thrice-Told Tale of Negotiations | 123 7 The House of Loss and Damage | 154 Conclusion: The Gift of the Global South | 173 Acknowledgments | 181 Notes | 185 Bibliography | 195 Index | 219

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Book SynopsisBased on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet offers an illuminating first-person ethnographic perspective on climate change negotiations. Focusing on the Paris Agreement, anthropologist Naveeda Khan introduces readers to the only existing global approach to the problem of climate change, one that took nearly thirty years to be collectively agreed upon. She shares her detailed descriptions of COP21 to COP25 and growing understanding of the intricacies of the climate negotiation process, leading her to ask why countries of the Global South invested in this slow-moving process and to explore how they have maneuvered it. With a focus on the Bangladeshi delegation at the COPs, Khan draws out what it means to be a small, poor, and dependent country within the negotiation process. Her interviews with negotiators within country delegations uncover their pathways to the negotiating tables. Through observations of training sessions of negotiators of the Global South, Khan seeks to reveal understandings of what is or is not achievable within negotiated texts and the power of deal-making and deferrals. She profiles individuals who had committed themselves to the climate negotiation process, moving between the Secretariat, Parties, activists, and the wider UN system to bring their principles, strategies, emotions, and visions into view. She explores how the newest pillar of climate action, loss and damage, emerged historically and how developed countries attempted to control it in the process. Khan suggests that we understand the Global South’s pursuit of loss and damage not only as a politics of forcing the issue of a conjoined future upon the Global North, but as a gift to the youth of the world to secure that future. With this book Khan hopes to rekindle an older way of doing politics through the tenets of diplomacy upheld by the UN that have been overshadowed of late by the politics of confrontation. She stresses that while the tension between efforts of equity and solidarity and global economic competition, which have run through the negotiation process, might undercut the urgency to carry out climate mitigation, it needs to be addressed for meaningful and sustainable climate action. Deeply insightful and highly readable, In Quest of a Shared Planet is a stirring call to action that highlights the key role responsive and active youth have in climate negotiations. It is an invitation not only to understand the climate negotiation process, but also to navigate it (for those planning to attend sessions themselves) and to critique it—with, the author hopes, sympathy and an eye to viable alternatives. In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.Table of ContentsList of Acronyms and Abbreviations | ix Bodies under the UNFCCC | xiii Introduction: The Climate Regime | 1 1 How to COP | 11 2 The Voice of Bangladesh | 38 3 Who Wants to Be a Negotiator? | 59 4 Politics in Between-Spaces | 78 5 Accounting for Change in the Paris Agreement | 104 6 A Thrice-Told Tale of Negotiations | 123 7 The House of Loss and Damage | 154 Conclusion: The Gift of the Global South | 173 Acknowledgments | 181 Notes | 185 Bibliography | 195 Index | 219

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Book SynopsisThe Greens have been not only a political force and social conscience for Germany before reunification and after but also an inspiration to political groups and movements in many other countries. The Greens have raised the issues of ecology, gender, and grassroots democracy in protest against government. They have also had the rare opportunity to try converting themselves into a political party that works within the system. This is a book about their paradoxical situation and about the dilemmas all advocates of change face when they become powerful enough to negotiate with the status quo. The critical essays by German social scientists and activists also provide a detailed picture of the dynamics of the German Greens -- where their support has come from, the nature of the competing factions, and the place of feminism. The editors provide a substantial introduction. The flavor and texture of the Greens -- including their raucous public arguments and their innovative campaign tactics -- are suggested by the political posters included in the book and by a whole section of primary documents. The documents and the essays (except for one originally written in English) have been translated from the German. The result is to make available to English-speaking readers a view of a complex movement whose very name and color have become synonymous with social action in favor of the environment and the empowerment of people.Trade Review"...virtually all [essays] provide useful treatments of important questions relevant to the movement-party 'paradox.' ...The German Greens merits the attention not only of students of Green and German parliamentary politics, but of anyone interested in a case study of the adaptation of an outsider group to insider and institutionalized status." -Environmental HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction 1. Success and Dilemmas of Green Party Politics - Margit Mayer and John Ely Part II. Emergence and Characteristics of the West German Green Party 2. A Brief History of the German Green Party - Horst Mewes 3. From Competing Factions within the Green Party to the Rise of Realos - Roland Roth and Detlef Murphy 4. Who Votes Green? Sources and Trends of Green Support - Lutz Mez Part III. In Parliament: Green Principles in Real Politics 5. What Happens to Green Principles in Electoral and Parliamentary Politics? - Lilian Klotzsch, Klaus Konemann, Jorg Wischermann, and Bodo Zeuner 6. Green Feminism in Parliamentary Politics - Claudia Pinl 7. The Phantasm of Grassroots Democracy - Alex Demirovic Part IV. Positions in the Debate: How to Resolve the Paradox 8. From Youth to Maturity: The Challenge of Party Politics - Claus Offe 9. A Party Is Not a Movement and Vice Versa - Joachim Hirsch Part V. Beyond Germany 10. Green Politics in Europe and the United States - John Ely Part VI. Documents 11. Founding Documents 12. Position Papers of the Main Factions within the Green Party 13. New Themes in Old Parliaments: Parliamentary Speeches and Party Statements 14. Programmatic Texts and Resolutions Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Publications Selected Annotated Bibliography of German-Language Publications About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in theHorn of Africa, the politics surrounding ownership, management, and control of natural resources has disrupted communities and increased external intervention in these countries. Such conflict has the potential to impact natural resource supply globally, with both local and wide-reaching consequences. The United States, for example, estimates that a quarter of its oil supply will come from Africa by 2015. Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa is the first book to offer a detailed look at conflict over various natural resources in several African countries. Abiodun Alao undertakes this broad survey by categorizing natural resources into four groups: land [including agricultural practices and animal stock], solid minerals, oil, and water. Themes linking these resources to governance and conflict are then identified and examined with numerous examples drawn from specific African countries. Alao's approach offers considered conclusions based on comparative discussions and analysis, thus providing the first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Abiodun Alao is professor of African studies at King's College London.Trade ReviewAn excellent survey bursting with facts, figures and interesting case studies. Its structure is wonderful. . . . It would be a valuable addition to any undergraduate syllabus. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Alao provides good chapters on solid minerals, oil, and water conflicts with considerable detail on specific situations . . . This book is useful for those wanting a deeper understanding of how an endowment of a natural resource can harm a country rather than be a source of wealth. -- J.E. Weaver * CHOICE, May 2008 *Here is another important work from one of Africa's finest scholars on Conflict and Security Studies. Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa is a treasure of scholarship and insight, with great depth and thoroughness, and it will put us in Abiodun Alao's debt for quite some time to come. -- Amos Sawyer, Co-director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana UniversityAs extensive in information as it is rich in analysis, Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa should help this generation of scholars appreciate the enormity and complexity of Africa's conflicts and provide the next generation with a methodology that breaks down disciplinary boundaries. -- Akanmu G. Adebayo, Executive Director, Institute for Global Initiatives, Kennesaw State UniversityTable of ContentsNatural Resources and Conflict in Africa: Framework for Understanding a Linkage Political Geography of Natural Resources in Africa Land and Conflict The Conflicts over Solid Minerals Conflicts Involving Oil Water and Conflict Governance and Natural Resource Conflicts

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Book SynopsisWhen citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of theircommunity, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives,community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, andcharitable foundations are all examples of social economies thatemphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. Whilesuch groups often participate in market-based activities to achievetheir goals, they also pose an alternative to the capitalist marketeconomy. Contributors to Scaling Up investigated innovativesocial economies in British Columbia and Alberta and discovered thatachieving a social good through collective, grassroots enterpriseresulted in a sustainable way of satisfying human needs that was also,by extension, environmentally responsible. As these case studiesillustrate, organizations that are capable of harnessing the power of asocial economy generally demonstrate a commitment to three outcomes:greater social justice, financial self-sufficiency, and environmentalsustainability. Within the matrix of these three allied principles lienew strategic directions for the politics of sustainability.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Social Economics and Sustainability / MikeGismondi, Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie, Sean Markey, and MarkRoseland 1 Towards Convergence: An Exploratory Framework 7 / SeanConnelly, Mike Gismondi, Sean Markey, and Mark Roseland 2 The Green Social Economy in British Columbia and Alberta 27 /Mike Gismondi, Lynda Ross, and Juanita Marois 3 The Role of the Social Economy in Scaling Up Alternative FoodInitiatives 59 / Mary Beckie and Sean Connelly 4 Human Services and the Caring Society 83 / JohnRestakis 5 Towards Sustainable Resource Management: Community Energy andForestry in British Columbia and Alberta 113 / Julie L.MacArthur 6 Evolving Conceptions of the Social Economy: The Arts, Culture, andTourism in Alert Bay 147 / Kelly Vodden, Lillian Hunt, and RandyBell 7 Non-Profit and Co-operative Organizations and the Provision ofSocial Housing 171 / George Penfold, Lauren Rethoret, and TerriMacDonald 8 Land Tenure Innovations for Sustainable Communities 195 /Marena Brinkhurst and Mark Roseland 9 Sustaining Social Democracy Through Heritage-Building Conservation223 / Noel Keough, Mike Gismondi, and ErinSwift-Leppäkumpu 10 Strong Institutions, Weak Strategies: Credit Unions and the RuralSocial Economy 249 / Sean Markey, Freya Kristensen, and StewartPerry Conclusion "Social Economizing" Sustainability 271 /Mike Gismondi, Sean Connelly, and Sean Markey List of Contributors 299

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Book SynopsisCourts, regulatory tribunals, and international bodies are often seen as a last line of defense for environmental protection. Governmental bodies at the national and provincial level enact and enforce environmental law, and their decisions and actions are the focus of public attention and debate. Court and tribunal decisions may have significant effects on environmental outcomes, corporate practices, and raise questions of how they may best be effectively and efficiently enforced on an ongoing basis.Environment in the Courtroom, Volume II examines major contemporary environmental issues from an environmental law and policy perspective. Expanding and building upon the concepts explored in Environment in the Courtroom, it focuses on issues that have, or potentially could be, the subject of judicial and regulatory tribunal processes and decisions. This comprehensive work brings together leading environmental law and policy specialists to address the protection of the marine environment, issues in Canadian wildlife protection, and the enforcement of greenhouse gas emissions regulation.Drawing on a wide range of viewpoints, Environment in the Courtroom, Volume II asks specific questions about and provides detailed examination of Canada's international climate obligations, carbon pricing, trading and emissions regulations in oil production, agriculture, and international shipping, the protection of marine mammals and the marine environment, Indigenous rights to protect and manage wildlife, and much more. This is an essential book for students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental law.

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Book SynopsisCourts, regulatory tribunals, and international bodies are often seen as a last line of defense for environmental protection. Governmental bodies at the national and provincial level enact and enforce environmental law, and their decisions and actions are the focus of public attention and debate. Court and tribunal decisions may have significant effects on environmental outcomes, corporate practices, and raise questions of how they may best be effectively and efficiently enforced on an ongoing basis.Environment in the Courtroom, Volume II examines major contemporary environmental issues from an environmental law and policy perspective. Expanding and building upon the concepts explored in Environment in the Courtroom, it focuses on issues that have, or potentially could be, the subject of judicial and regulatory tribunal processes and decisions. This comprehensive work brings together leading environmental law and policy specialists to address the protection of the marine environment, issues in Canadian wildlife protection, and the enforcement of greenhouse gas emissions regulation.Drawing on a wide range of viewpoints, Environment in the Courtroom, Volume II asks specific questions about and provides detailed examination of Canada's international climate obligations, carbon pricing, trading and emissions regulations in oil production, agriculture, and international shipping, the protection of marine mammals and the marine environment, Indigenous rights to protect and manage wildlife, and much more. This is an essential book for students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental law.

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Book SynopsisCapitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments and their international platforms such as the Paris Climate Agreement deliver too little, too late. Most states, including South Africa, continue on their carbon-intensive energy paths, with devastating results. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. This is the context in which we must ask ourselves: how can people and class agency change this destructive course of history? Volume three in the Democratic Marxism series, The Climate Crisis investigates ecosocialist alternatives that are emerging. It presents the thinking of leading climate justice activists, campaigners and social movements advancing systemic alternatives and developing bottom-up, just transitions to sustain life. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical work, the authors collectively examine the challenges and opportunities inherent in the current moment. This volume builds on the class-struggle focus of Volume 2 by placing ecological issues at the center of democratic Marxism. Most importantly, it explores ways to renew historical socialism with democratic, ecosocialist alternatives to meet current challenges in South Africa and the world.Trade Review‘This volume reminds us that fossil fuel corporations, petro states and ruling elites are the key forces deepening the climate crisis. Hurricanes like Harvey and Irma have once again demonstrated the ways that extreme weather events disproportionately impact working people, the poor and Black lives. The wealthy, meanwhile, take cover in their wine cellars on private islands. Only systemic change, led from below, holds out the hope for a safe and sturdy future. This volume features some of the best thinking we have from the climate justice forces who are already mapping the way to that next world.’ — Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. ‘This volume convincingly explains how capitalism has caused the climate crisis and why it cannot solve the crisis. Its perspectives take us beyond fatalism and provide a way forward for a thorough-going just transition anchored in people driven systemic transformation. Its democratic eco-socialist vision is rational, absolutely necessary and urgent as a basis to sustain life.’ — Mazibuko Jara activist and Director of Ntinga Ntaba kaNdoda. ‘South Africa’s National Development Plan supports resource nationalism, particularly more coal mines. Together with our carbon intensive economy, addiction to fossil fuels and now the push for an expensive nuclear deal we are heading down the wrong path. Our drought is a window into the future. This volume provides systemic alternatives for a feminist, climate justice and radical non-racial future for present and future generations. It should be read by all concerned about a climate driven world.’ — Makoma Lekalakala, Climate Justice Activist and Director of Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg.Table of Contents Tables, figures and box Acknowledgements Acronyms and abbreviations 1 The Climate Crisis and Systemic Alternatives PART ONE :THE CLIMATE CRISIS AS CAPITALIST CRISIS 2 The Limits of Capitalist Solutions to the Climate Crisis 3 The Anthropocene and Imperial Ecocide: Prospects for Just Transitions PART TWO: DEMOCRATIC ECO-SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVES IN THE WORLD 4 The Employment Crisis, Just Transition and the Universal Basic Income Grant 5 The Rights of Mother Earth 6 Buen Vivir: An Alternative Perspective from the Peoples of the Global South 7 Challenging the Growth Paradigm: Marx, Buddha and the Pursuit of ‘Happiness’ 8 Ubuntu and the Struggle for an African Eco-socialist Alternative 9 The Climate Crisis and the Struggle for African Food Sovereignty PART THREE: DEMOCRATIC ECO-SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA 10 The Climate Crisis and a ‘Just Transition’ in South Africa: An Eco-Feminist-Socialist Perspective 11 Energy, Labour, and Democracy in South Africa 12 Capital, Climate and the Politics of Nuclear Procurement in South Africa 13 Climate Jobs at Two Minutes to Midnight 14 Deepening the Just Transition Through Food Sovereignty and the Solidarity Economy 15 Eco-Capitalist Crises in the ‘Blue Economy’: Operation Phakisa’s Small, Slow Failures CONCLUSION Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDaniel Press brings his considerable experience to light in this excellent book, and it should be a required read for every scholar and student of environmental studies and science. He convincingly leverages an evidence based approach by digging into the data on toxic release, acid rain, non-point source water pollution, and industrial recycling to challenge the conventional wisdom that environmental regulation in the United States has been settled and is successful. Issuing a clarion call to those who care about environmental values, he urges us to redirect our action and discourse and to rethink how we can be more effective, with his specific recommendations for policy and regulatory reform.'- Toddi A. Steelman, University of Saskatchewan, Canada'Those of us who work on environmental policy should never let the grind of our day-to-day challenges turn us away from the ultimate question of whether we are leaving a better environment to the next generation. Daniel Press looks at the current state of environmental regulation and probes just this question. It s worth a read for anyone who cares about the decisions we must make - and the processes we now use to get to those decisions - that will shape the world for years to come.'- John Laird, California Secretary for Natural Resources'In American Environmental Policy Daniel Press guides the reader through not only the motivations and concepts that have been employed to set land, water, and air pollution policies, but also a dive into the details of both the environmental science and the legal and regulatory science that determines the success or failure of these actions. This book is instrumental for all those interested in both the why and the how - and the how much - of the legacy of Rachel Carson and the past five decades of environmental management.'- Daniel Kammen, University of California, Berkeley, US'Daniel Press's new book is an excellent one. By focusing on implementation - what happens after policy has been adopted - Press demonstrates the weaknesses of pollution control policy in the United States. Case studies of acid rain, nonpoint source water pollution, and paper recycling illuminate 'regulatory failure,' the structural problems of American regulatory approaches. He concludes with recommendations to move us ahead, a path forward that focuses on performance, information, incentives, and source reduction. Strongly recommended.'- Christopher McGrory Klyza, Middlebury College, USMore than 40 years after the United States launched bold efforts to curb pollution and waste, American environmental management has stalled. Drawing extensively on recent environmental science, engineering, regulatory agency data and trade information, American Environmental Policy explores how environmental management in the US has fallen short of its early promise and reputation.Arguing that policies need to be redesigned for the 21st century, this book offers examples and principles of effective environmental policy reforms. It concludes with suggestions for how new policies should be designed, as well as examples of successful regulatory innovations already in practice around the world.Environmental policy scholars, students and science and environment journalists interested in evaluating environmental policy over time will find this to book of value. The approaches discussed in this book will also be useful for environmental and natural resource agency officials.Trade Review‘This is a well-researched, lucidly written book.? ?It is a magnificent addition to the existing literature on environmental policies and regulations. I believe this book? ?should motivate the academic community to conduct further research in several other environmental domains, both? ?within the USA and in other countries. I highly recommend? ?this book to scholars, policy-makers and other stakeholders, who are interested in environmental regulations? ? -- and governance.’– Science and Public Policy?‘The book would be a valuable text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in environmental policy.’ -- Maria Manta Conroy, Town Planning Review‘Daniel Press brings his considerable experience to light in this excellent book, and it should be a required read for every scholar and student of environmental studies and science. He convincingly leverages an evidence based approach by digging into the data on toxic release, acid rain, non-point source water pollution, and industrial recycling to challenge the conventional wisdom that environmental regulation in the United States has been settled and is successful. Issuing a clarion call to those who care about environmental values, he urges us to redirect our action and discourse and to rethink how we can be more effective, with his specific recommendations for policy and regulatory reform.’ -- Toddi A. Steelman, University of Saskatchewan, Canada‘Those of us who work on environmental policy should never let the grind of our day-to-day challenges turn us away from the ultimate question of whether we are leaving a better environment to the next generation. Daniel Press looks at the current state of environmental regulation and probes just this question. It’s worth a read for anyone who cares about the decisions we must make – and the processes we now use to get to those decisions – that will shape the world for years to come.’ -- John Laird, California Secretary for Natural Resources‘In American Environmental Policy Daniel Press guides the reader through not only the motivations and concepts that have been employed to set land, water, and air pollution policies, but also a dive into the details of both the environmental science and the legal and regulatory science that determines the success or failure of these actions. This book is instrumental for all those interested in both the why and the how – and the how much – of the legacy of Rachel Carson and the past five decades of environmental management’ -- Daniel Kammen, University of California, Berkeley, US‘Daniel Press’s new book is an excellent one. By focusing on implementation – what happens after policy has been adopted – Press demonstrates the weaknesses of pollution control policy in the United States. Case studies of acid rain, nonpoint source water pollution, and paper recycling illuminate “regulatory failure,” the structural problems of American regulatory approaches. He concludes with recommendations to move us ahead, a path forward that focuses on performance, information, incentives, and source reduction. Strongly recommended.’ -- Christopher McGrory Klyza, Middlebury College, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Pollution 3. At The End of the Pipe, or Why Acid Rain Will be a Problem as Long as We Burn Coal 4. Failure When There Is No Pipe 5. Failure Before The End of the Pipe: Missed Opportunities in American Paper Recycling 6. Regulation Beyond Compliance, Abatement and Mitigation References Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental governance encompasses our relations to nature, spanning institutions and policies in fields such as biodiversity loss, climate change, land use and pollution. This book offers tools for the study of environmental conflicts, analyzes the current status of environmental policies and discusses why we are so far from resolving many of the issues we face. It also offers alternative directions for future environmental governance.Key features include:- an interdisciplinary and integrated approach- an overview of the field of environmental governance- a focus both on local and global challenges and policies- the positioning of environmental governance within the wider field of economic policy and development.This book will be ideal for interdisciplinary masters programs in environmental studies and environmental policy and management. It will also be of great value to practitioners in the field exploring alternative solutions for governance of environmental resources.Trade Review'With Environmental Governance Arild Vatn succeeds in building a bridge between textbook, reference work and an original contribution to public debate. The various uses find support through the index and clear structure. The book is thus unconditionally recommended to every interested institutional and ecological economist. In addition, readers with other disciplinary backgrounds will find an easily accessible work that deals with socio-ecological and governance research.' --Okologisches Wirtschaften'Arild Vatn, the leading classical institutional economist, adopts a novel critical realist perspective and brings insights from a lifetime of work to bear on our social ecological economic crises. In a balanced guide through the diverse interdisciplinary literature, markets are explained as contested socially created governance structures. Mainstream economists and pragmatic environmentalists will discover why their favoured market concepts and solutions are flawed. The environmental crisis requires a fundamental restructuring of the economy and new institutions. Vatn helps us understand the dilemmas and ways forward.' --Clive L. Spash, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria'The sweep, clarity, and elegance of Arild Vatn's treatment of institutions and governance is unrivaled. His focus on profound environmental threats-in this era of unbridled self-interest and income inequality-is both a moral triumph and a robust challenge to the hegemony of economistic justificationism in our daily life. Vatn shows that facile application of individualistic models of choice will always fail to reveal what ought to be done. Here we find a comprehensive treatment of all the difficulties-and possibilities-in crafting social rules to live by.' --Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction PART I: HUMAN ACTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT 2. The Environment 3. The Environment – An Arena for Conflict and Coordination PART II: THE THEORY OF INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN ACTION 4. What are Institutions? 5. Theories of Motivation and Human Action PART III: THE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE 6. A Framework for Analyzing Environmental Governance Systems 7. Evaluating and Changing Governance Structures PART IV: MARKETS AND GOVERNANCE 8. The Market 9. A Brief History of Markets and T heir Actors PART V: ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN PRACTICE 10. The Policy Process 11. Evaluating What is Better to Do 12. Policy Instruments – Institutions for Environmental Governance 13. The Turn to the Market 14. Environmental Governance – The Need for New Institutions Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and accessible textbook addresses important relationships between economics and environmental policy, especially highlighting the role of taxation. It also connects environmental policy to social accounting by describing how measures of welfare and sustainable development depend on whether policies successfully internalize market failures.The authors discuss how the modern literature on environmental taxation and tradable permits has evolved. Environmental taxation is examined from a purely corrective perspective, and as part of a broader system of optimal taxation that reflects distributional objectives. Cost benefit rules of environmental policy reforms are also examined in various contexts. Key features include: ? Examination of optimal tax policy in static and dynamic general equilibrium models with environmental externalities? Examination of cost benefit rules for environmental policy reforms? Essential historical background to the modern literature on environmental policy? Discussion of measures of welfare and sustainable development? Environmental policy from a fiscal federalism perspective. This textbook will be essential reading for those studying environmental economics and environmental policy, working effectively as both an in-depth supplementary text in general courses on environmental economics and a strong main source for environmental policy courses.Trade Review'This new textbook presents a detailed analysis of the theoretical insights which economics has been able to shed on the issue of pollution control in both static and dynamic models. The text will be very useful to PhD students who are interested in modelling pollution taxes and tradeable permit markets. A fascinating extension to how governments can correct market failures with respect to possible ''catastrophic'' problems brought about by investments in nuclear energy is also presented. The second part of the book extends the analysis, looking at the problem of measuring social welfare over time, and in particular how a genuine savings indicator can be produced, and then adjusted for imperfections in the economy. This links to current theoretical and policy work on ''inclusive wealth'' and natural capital, which is proving very influential within and beyond economics. The issues of commodity taxes, environmental policy within a federal system, and how best to respond to transboundary externalities such as climate change are also analysed. For those readers looking for a detailed, thoughtful and technical treatment of these subjects, this book will provide a valuable resource.' --Nick Hanley, University of St Andrews, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. A Brief History of Economics and Environmental Policy 3. Markets and Externalities 4. Welfare and the Environment: General Equilibrium Models 5. Nuclear Power and Externalities 6. Welfare Comparisons, Public Policy, and Sustainable Development 7. Heterogeneity and Redistribution 8. Efficiency, Inefficiency, and Transboundary Externalities Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and accessible textbook addresses important relationships between economics and environmental policy, especially highlighting the role of taxation. It also connects environmental policy to social accounting by describing how measures of welfare and sustainable development depend on whether policies successfully internalize market failures.The authors discuss how the modern literature on environmental taxation and tradable permits has evolved. Environmental taxation is examined from a purely corrective perspective, and as part of a broader system of optimal taxation that reflects distributional objectives. Cost benefit rules of environmental policy reforms are also examined in various contexts. Key features include: ? Examination of optimal tax policy in static and dynamic general equilibrium models with environmental externalities? Examination of cost benefit rules for environmental policy reforms? Essential historical background to the modern literature on environmental policy? Discussion of measures of welfare and sustainable development? Environmental policy from a fiscal federalism perspective. This textbook will be essential reading for those studying environmental economics and environmental policy, working effectively as both an in-depth supplementary text in general courses on environmental economics and a strong main source for environmental policy courses.Trade Review'This new textbook presents a detailed analysis of the theoretical insights which economics has been able to shed on the issue of pollution control in both static and dynamic models. The text will be very useful to PhD students who are interested in modelling pollution taxes and tradeable permit markets. A fascinating extension to how governments can correct market failures with respect to possible ''catastrophic'' problems brought about by investments in nuclear energy is also presented. The second part of the book extends the analysis, looking at the problem of measuring social welfare over time, and in particular how a genuine savings indicator can be produced, and then adjusted for imperfections in the economy. This links to current theoretical and policy work on ''inclusive wealth'' and natural capital, which is proving very influential within and beyond economics. The issues of commodity taxes, environmental policy within a federal system, and how best to respond to transboundary externalities such as climate change are also analysed. For those readers looking for a detailed, thoughtful and technical treatment of these subjects, this book will provide a valuable resource.' --Nick Hanley, University of St Andrews, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. A Brief History of Economics and Environmental Policy 3. Markets and Externalities 4. Welfare and the Environment: General Equilibrium Models 5. Nuclear Power and Externalities 6. Welfare Comparisons, Public Policy, and Sustainable Development 7. Heterogeneity and Redistribution 8. Efficiency, Inefficiency, and Transboundary Externalities Index

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Book SynopsisThe Governance of Climate Relations between Europe and Asia offers a thorough empirical study of the most fundamental dynamics involved in EU climate relations with China and Vietnam in the context of global climate governance.This book presents a study of the most important governance processes in current EU-Asia climate relations. It focuses on in-depth empirical case studies, offering a comprehensive relational perspective. Contributions on China cover the most essential issues, interests and actors, while the inquiry of EU-Vietnam relations mainly focuses on the Clean Development Mechanism as the main channel of bilateral climate action.This landmark study will appeal to both policymakers and practitioners faced with the extraordinary task of managing the increasingly complex and multilevel interactions of current EU-Asia climate relations as well as global carbon market watchers and professionals dealing with emissions trading in the European Union, China and Vietnam. It will also be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of international relations, Chinese and EU foreign policy, global environmental and climate governance and international law.Contributors: K. Bachus, D. Belis, H. Bruyninckx, V.H. Bui, J. Cao, P.-f. Chang, M.D. Dang, L. De Smet, J. Delbeke, T.N.B. Dinh, A.H. Nguyen, B.T. Nguyen, Q.T. Nguyen, Y. Qi, S. Schunz, T.T.H. Tran, S. Van EyndeTrade ReviewThis book is very timely... it provides important insights for bilateral cooperation and international negotiations. These lessons go beyond EU - China and EU - Vietnam relations. Many of them are applicable to other countries in Asia, a region which will remain a key priority for EU foreign and climate policy, not in the least as the EU's largest trading partner. --- From the foreword by Jos Delbeke, Director General, EC DG Climate ActionTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Jos Delbeke 1. Introduction: Governing Climate Relations between Europe and Asia in a Restructuring World Order David Belis, Hans Bruyninckx, Qi Ye and Nguyen Quang Thuan PART I: THE EUROPEAN UNION, CHINA AND THE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE 2. The Increasingly Complex Nature of EU–China Climate Relations Hans Bruyninckx and Qi Ye 3. China, the European Union and Global Environmental Governance: The Case of Climate Change David Belis and Simon Schunz 4. Explaining the Development of China’s Renewable Energy Policies: Comparing Wind and Solar Power Sarah Van Eynde and Chang Pei-fei 5. Cap or Tax? Exploring the Potential for a Carbon Tax or Emissions Trading in China Kris Bachus and Cao Jing 6. The Governance of the CDM in China: Achievements and Deficiencies David Belis, Bui Viet Hung and Nguyen Bich Thuan PART II: EU–VIETNAM CLIMATE RELATIONS: A STUDY OF THE CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM 7. The Role and Dynamics of the Clean Development Mechanism in EU–Vietnam Climate Relations David Belis 8. The Vietnamese Regulatory Framework for the Clean Development Mechanism Nguyen Quang Thuan and Tran Thi Thu Huyen 9. Public–Private Partnerships in CDM Implementation in Vietnam Dinh Thi Ngoc Bich and Sarah Van Eynde 10. Opportunities and Challenges for Vietnamese Enterprises Involved in the CDM Nguyen An Ha and Dang Minh Duc 11. Case-Study of Vietnamese Hydropower CDM Projects: Shortcomings and Barriers Sarah Van Eynde, Lieven De Smet and Nguyen An Ha PART III: CONCLUSION 12. The Governance of Climate Relations between Europe and Asia in the ‘Pivotal Decade’ (2010–2020): Evidence from China and Vietnam David Belis and Hans Bruyninckx Index

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Book SynopsisTaking sustainable development as its central substantive area of concern, this important new book offers a compelling portrait of the global partnership regime in all its richness and complexity, revealing its logics of emergence and operation. Mert demonstrates the analytical and critical power of an antiessentialist discourse theoretical approach to the study of partnerships, examining a number of crucial mediating discourses drawn from economics, democratic theory and ecology. Her work embodies what all such studies aspire to be: an ontological and not merely an ontical inquiry. The novel concepts developed - particularly 'sedimentation of conflict' - makes this a potentially transformative study.'- Jason Glynos, University of Essex, UK'Mert's book offers a highly provocative treatment of public-private collaboration for sustainability. It follows the discourses of privatization, participation and sustainable development through the language and practices of the partnerships adopted at the World Summit for Sustainable Development. As such, the study opens a fresh inquiry on the discursive battles that surround new forms of environmental governance and their fit with broader norms of representation and effectiveness.'- Liliana B. Andonova, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva'In sum, this volume is an important and timely step forward in our understanding of the emergence and legitimacy of public-private partnerships for sustainable development. The book's contribution is both theoretically refreshing, innovative and empirically well-grounded in a deep analysis of major global discourses. Given the still ongoing discussions on multisectoral partnerships in the UN system, this book offers important new perspectives on this partnership idea that will be valuable for both political theorists and policy practitioners.'- From the foreword by Frank BiermannSustainability partnerships were the Type-II outcomes of the 2002 Johannesburg Summit, which promised increased effectiveness in and wider participation to global environmental governance. They have quickly become the main form of collaboration between UN and non-state actors. This groundbreaking book uses the results of quantitative and qualitative research to analyze sustainability partnerships and their role in environmental governance. It focuses on the origins of and the rationale behind the concept of 'public-private partnership'. With a combination of post-structuralist discourse theory and interpretative methods such as historical discourse analysis and ecocriticism not previously used in studies on partnership, Ay em Mert examines three discourses that have been rooted into the logic of partnerships: privatization of governance, sustainable development and democratic participation. Ultimately, Mert argues that these discourses help understand both the potential and structural limitations of sustainability partnerships.This revolutionary book will be useful to researchers of environmental governance, transnational and global studies, looking for an empirical and analytical interpretation of the topic. Political theorists and philosophers, as well as discourse analysts, will also find the theoretical and methodological perspectives to be of interest.Trade Review‘Taking sustainable development as its central substantive area of concern, this important new book offers a compelling portrait of the global partnership regime in all its richness and complexity, revealing its logics of emergence and operation. Mert demonstrates the analytical and critical power of an antiessentialist discourse theoretical approach to the study of partnerships, examining a number of crucial mediating discourses drawn from economics, democratic theory and ecology. Her work embodies what all such studies aspire to be: an ontological and not merely an ontical inquiry. The novel concepts developed – particularly “sedimentation of conflict”– makes this a potentially transformative study.’‘In sum, this volume is an important and timely step forward in our understanding of the emergence and legitimacy of public–private partnerships for sustainable development. The book’s contribution is both theoretically refreshing, innovative and empirically well-grounded in a deep analysis of major global discourses. Given the still ongoing discussions on multisectoral partnerships in the UN system, this book offers important new perspectives on this partnership idea that will be valuable for both political theorists and policy practitioners.’ -- From the foreword by Frank BiermannTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements PART I Setting the Scene 1. Introduction 2. Methodological Reflections: Studying Change within Continuity 3. Theoretical Reflections: Discourses and Institutions after Nature 4. Partnerships as Sedimented Discourses: The Emergence of Type-II Outcomes PART II Analysing the Mediating Discourses 5. Partnerships and the Discourse of Privatization 6. Partnerships and the Discourse of Sustainable Development 7. Partnerships and the Discourse of Participation 8. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisWithin the United States, minority and low-income communities currently bear a disproportionate amount of risk associated with pollution and other harmful environmental practices. The environmental justice movement is working to change this fact, promoting the fair and non-discriminatory treatment of all people with respect to environmental issues, policies, and regulations. This fascinating and timely volume explores the relationship between environmental justice and the government, offering a comprehensive introduction to the legal, economic, and philosophical concerns involved in pursuing environmental justice goals within a federalist system.The authors discuss two case studies in their investigation of the complex interactions between environmental justice and government. These analyses offer a comprehensive view of both the siting and regulation of polluting activities, as well as a discussion of the effects on major natural resources such as clean air and drinking water. In each case, the authors both describe current government responses to the problem and offer specific recommendations regarding what actions should be taken in the future.This authoritative book will make an invaluable addition to courses in environmental law and policy. Professionals and policymakers working in disciplines such as law, economics, environmental science, philosophy and political science will also find this a comprehensive and critical reference.Contents: Preface 1. Federalism and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice 2. Establishing an EJ Claim of Disparate-Impact Discrimination 3. Clean Air, EJ, and Facility Siting in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area 4. Environmental Justice and Enforcement of the Safe Drinking Water Act: The Arizona Arsenic Experience 5. Environmental Federalism and Addressing EJ Concerns 6. Community Involvement and Substantive Environmental Justice 7. Environmental Justice in the U.S.: Looking Ahead References AppendicesTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Federalism and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice 2. Establishing an EJ Claim of Disparate-Impact Discrimination 3. Clean Air, EJ, and Facility Siting in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area 4. Environmental Justice and Enforcement of the Safe Drinking Water Act: The Arizona Arsenic Experience 5. Environmental Federalism and Addressing EJ Concerns 6. Community Involvement and Substantive Environmental Justice 7. Environmental Justice in the US: Looking Ahead Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisA fresh and up-to-date discussion of Russia's manifold environmental crises, using the results of an elite survey and a framework based on the civil society literature. I believe this is the best treatment of its subject that is presently available and, given Russia's enormous territorial extent, it is a study that has important implications for everyone who has any concern for the future of Planet Earth.'- Stephen White, University of Glasgow, UKIn recent years, international, inter-governmental entities have acknowledged the importance of civil society for engaging stakeholders in environmental change, especially at the local community level, and in promoting democracy. In Russia, efforts by NGOs to promote reform since the fall of the Soviet Union have been aimed at achieving both objectives. This fascinating and highly illuminating book explores the political, legal, and attitudinal barriers to environmental reform in Russia since 1991.The authors, renowned experts in the field, explore efforts to develop a mature civil society in Russia, and analyze the policy views of environmental groups, the media, and the scientific community. Three important case studies underpin the study: suspended plans to build an oil pipeline near Lake Baikal; management of Cold War-generated radioactive waste at Chelyabinsk; and public reaction to the introduction of genetically modified foods. The conclusion is that although civil society groups face obstacles in the form of apathy, state-imposed constraints on their activities, and agency reluctance to confer on decisions, there are some successes in reversing decisions due in part to NGO pressures yielding reform.This path-breaking book will be of enormous interest to scholars, researchers and students focusing on comparative environmental policy and politics, contemporary public policy in Russia, and international politics.Contents: 1. Civil Society, Environment, and Russian Politics Post-1991 2. Russia s Environmental Challenges and their Management 3. Environmental Civil Society through Russian Eyes: Stakeholder Views 4. Case Studies and their Insights into Civil Society Growth: Chelyabinsk, Lake Baikal, and Genetically Modified Food 5. Interpreting Civil Society: Challenges, Change, and Environmental Significance 6. Conclusions: The Bas, the Good, and the Uncertain ReferencesTrade Review‘A fresh and up-to-date discussion of Russia’s manifold environmental crises, using the results of an elite survey and a framework based on the civil society literature. I believe this is the best treatment of its subject that is presently available and, given Russia’s enormous territorial extent, it is a study that has important implications for everyone who has any concern for the future of Planet Earth.’ -- Stephen White, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Civil Society, Environment and Russian Politics Post-1991 2. Russia’s Environmental Challenges and their Management 3. Environmental Civil Society through Russian Eyes: Stakeholder Views 4. Case Studies and their Insights into Civil Society Growth: Lake Baikal, Chelyabinsk and Genetically Modified Food 5. Interpreting Civil Society: Challenges, Change and Environmental Significance 6. Conclusions: The Bad, the Good and the Uncertain Appendix A: Summary of Survey Findings Appendix B: Questionnaire – Decision Making on Environmental and Natural Resource Issues References Index

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Book Synopsis'This book fills an important gap in the environmental governance literature, addressing governance at a lower level of abstraction than other texts and examining how it plays out in relation to specific modes and instruments of governing. It also contributes towards governance theory-building efforts through the development of an empirically relevant analytical framework. In so doing it provides a firm underpinning for assessing whether, to what extent and in what ways there has been a transition from government towards governance in environmental policy.'- Neil Gunningham, Australian National University'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book provides an overview of the introduction, development, and use of new policy instruments and new modes of environmental governance in the European context, taking into account both national and European Union experiences. This is a welcome addition to the field!'- Miranda Schreurs, Environmental Policy Research Centre and Free University of Berlin, GermanyEuropean governance has witnessed dramatic changes in recent decades. By assessing the use of 'new' environmental policy instruments in European Union countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, this timely book analyses whether traditional forms of top-down government have given way to less hierarchical governance instruments, which rely strongly on societal self-steering and/or market forces. The authors provide important new theoretical insights as well as fresh empirical detail on why, and in what form, these instruments are being adopted within and across different levels of governance, along with analysis of the often-overlooked interactions between the instrument types.Providing important new theoretical insights into the governance debate by combining institutionalist and policy learning/transfer approaches, this book will be invaluable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The analytical insights as well as a thorough empirical assessment of the use of environmental policy instruments in practice will prove essential for environmental policy specialists/practitioners.Contents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Environmental Policy: From Government to Governance? Part II: Context 2. Governing by Policy Instruments: Theories and Analytical Concepts 3. Changing Institutional Contexts for the Use of Policy Instruments Part III: Governing by New Instruments 4. Governing by Informational Means 5. Governing by Voluntary Means 6. Governing by Eco-taxes 7. Governing by Emissions Trading Part IV: Emerging Patterns of Governing 8. Changing Patterns of Environmental Policy Instrument Use 9. Out with the 'Old' and in with the 'New'? Governing with Policy Instruments Bibliography IndexTrade ReviewThis path-breaking book, written by three well known experts, makes an extremely valuable contribution to the study of ''new'' environmental policy instruments as well as to much wider theoretical debates about governance, policy innovation, learning and transfer. Drawing on an unrivaled comparative empirical study of five different jurisdictions, it manages to make many new points about issues that many of us thought had already been settled. --Martin Janicke, Free University of Berlin, and former deputy chair, German Advisory Council on the Environment, GermanyMuch more than a study of environmental policy instruments, this book ranges widely and authoritatively over the ''government to governance'' debate, theories of policy change, regulation, policy transfer, and policy learning. Its lessons and conclusions are relevant and timely well beyond the European context of its case studies and it will be essential reading for public policy scholars everywhere for some time to come. --Jeremy Rayner, University of Saskatchewan, CanadaThis book represents a very rare achievement in that it combines detailed and up-to-the-minute empirical analysis of environmental policy over the past four decades, with a sophisticated discussion and critique of current theoretical issues in comparative and policy studies generally. It unfolds with a keen eye towards understanding the temporal dimensions of policy dynamics both in the specific policy field examined but also in terms of testing key analytical concepts. Taken as a whole it provides the most detailed empirical assessment to date of the general ''government to governance'' hypothesis, with significant implications for policy and governance studies in general. --Michael Howlett, Simon Fraser University, Canada and National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Environmental Policy: From Government to Governance? Part II: Context 2. Governing by Policy Instruments: Theories and Analytical Concepts 3. Changing Institutional Contexts for the Use of Policy Instruments Part III: Governing by New Instruments 4. Governing by Informational Means 5. Governing by Voluntary Means 6. Governing by Eco-taxes 7. Governing by Emissions Trading Part IV: Emerging Patterns of Governing 8. Changing Patterns of Environmental Policy Instrument Use 9. Out with the ‘Old’ and in with the ‘New’? Governing with Policy Instruments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAgainst all odds, the CDM has shown that market mechanisms for greenhouse gas reduction in developing countries can work. Nevertheless, as Paula Castro explains convincingly, the CDM is no 'magic bullet'. Advanced developing countries need to be 'weaned off' the CDM in order to take up commitments, while the monetary incentive from emission credit sales is insufficient to put least developed countries on a low-emission pathway. However, experience from the CDM remains critical in designing new market mechanisms.'- Axel Michaelowa, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandIn this groundbreaking book, Paula Castro presents the first systematic categorization of positive and negative incentives generated by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for climate change mitigation in the Global South.To reduce the cost of meeting their greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries may rely on the CDM, a market instrument that allows them to count emission reductions from projects in developing countries as their own. Presented in four core empirical chapters, the book critically reviews whether and how the CDM creates incentives or disincentives for developing country action towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and draws lessons for the future international climate change regime.Recommendations and discussion on the reform of the CDM invoke debate on the future of this policy in developing countries, which is vital material for both policymakers and international institutions introducing similar instruments. Students and researchers working on topics related to environmental politics, climate policy, environmental economics and environmental science will also find this resource invaluable. Contents: 1. Introduction to the Clean Development Mechanism 2. Conceptual Framework 3. Will Preferential Access Measures Overcome Barriers to CDM Projects in Least Developed Countries? 4. Discounting Emission Credits and Competitiveness of Different CDM Host Countries 5. Does the CDM Discourage Emission Reduction Targets in Advanced Developing Countries? An Analysis of the Low-hanging Fruit Issue 6. Do Domestic Renewable Energy Promotion Policies Lead to More CDM Projects? 7. Concluding Remarks ReferencesTrade Review‘Against all odds, the CDM has shown that market mechanisms for greenhouse gas reduction in developing countries can work. Nevertheless, as Paula Castro explains convincingly, the CDM is no “magic bullet”. Advanced developing countries need to be “weaned off” the CDM in order to take up commitments, while the monetary incentive from emission credit sales is insufficient to put least developed countries on a low-emission pathway. However, experience from the CDM remains critical in designing new market mechanisms.’ -- Axel Michaelowa, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Clean Development Mechanism 2. Conceptual Framework 3. Will Preferential Access Measures Overcome Barriers to CDM Projects in Least Developed Countries? 4. Discounting Emission Credits and Competitiveness of Different CDM Host Countries 5. Does the CDM Discourage Emission Reduction Targets in Advanced Developing Countries? An Analysis of the Low-hanging Fruit Issue 6. Do Domestic Renewable Energy Promotion Policies Lead to More CDM Projects? 7. Concluding Remarks References

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Book SynopsisThe Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics surveys the broad range of environmental and sustainability challenges in the emerging Anthropocene and scrutinizes available concepts, methodological tools, theories and approaches, as well as overlaps with adjunct fields of study.This comprehensive reference work, written by some of the most eminent academics in the field, contains 68 entries on numerous aspects across 7 thematic areas, including concepts and definitions; theories and methods; actors; institutions; issue-areas; cross-cutting questions; and overlaps with non-environmental fields. With this broad approach, the volume seeks to provide a pluralistic knowledge base of the research and practice of global environmental governance and politics in times of increased complexity and contestation.Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, this Encyclopedia is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the politics of the environment, particularly students, teachers and researchers.Contributors: K.W. Abbott, C. Adelle, L. Andonova, S. Andresen, W.F. Baber, K. Bäckstrand, R.V. Bartlett, I. Baud, S. Bauer, S. Beck, M. Beisheim, D. Benson, S. Bernstein, K. Biedenkopf, F. Biermann, K. Booth, U. Brand, P.-O. Busch, S. Chan, K. Chelminski, J. Clapp, D. Compagnon, D. Cordell, V. Cornelissen, E. Dellas, S. Dietz, R. Eckersley, R. Floyd, D.J. Frank, V. Galaz, K. Genskow, S. Godin-Beekman, A. Gupta, J. Gupta, R. Haluza-DeLay, A. Hironaka, M. Isailovic, M. Ivanova, A. Jerneck, K. Jönsson, A. Jordan, S. Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, M. Kok, A. Kronsell, M. Lang, S. Lim, J. Lister, K. Magyera, A. Mert, D. Moran, G. Nagtzaam, T. Nielsen, M. Nilsson, C. Okereke, T. Oliver, L. Olsson, P.H. Pattberg, J. Pinkse, A. Prakash, O. Renn, K. Rosendal, M.A.F. Ros-Tonen, D. Rothe, E. Schofer, B. Siebenhüner, N. Simon, J. Stel, H. Stevenson, O.S. Stokke, K. Szulecki, M.W.Tvedt, A. Underdal, T. Van de Graaf, D. Van Vuuren, P. Vellinga, P. Wapner, E. Weinthal, J. Wettestad, S. White, O. Widerberg, F. ZelliTrade Review'The Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics is an indispensable resource for researchers and students of global environmental governance. With balance and precision, entries by world-leading experts catalogue existing knowledge as well as offer new insights into the concepts, theories, institutions, and actors shaping core debates and issues.' --Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia, Canada'The Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics provides a comprehensive starting-point for understanding the complex and contested nature of global environmental governance. Pattberg and Zelli have assembled an impressive array of contributions written by leading scholars in their fields. The superbly edited volume provides an indispensable knowledge base for understanding - and tackling - the environmental challenges of the emerging Anthropocene.' --Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and editor, Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy'This volume offers a balanced and differentiated perspective and review of the most relevant issues, methodologies, theories and trends in the study of global environmental governance and politics. In 68 key entries leading scholars introduce, explain and discuss systematically the main concepts, the most important findings and the future outlook. An indispensable compendium for scholars, students, practitioners and libraries engaged in environmental politics and governance around the world.' --Arthur P.J. Mol, Wageningen University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS 1. Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries Victor Galaz 2. Consumerism Jane Lister 3. Earth System Governance Frank Biermann 4. Environment and Nature Paul Wapner 5. Global Environmental Governance Philipp Pattberg and Oscar Widerberg 6. Inclusive Development Joyeeta Gupta, Vincent Cornelissen and Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen 7. Liberal Environmentalism and Governance Norms Steven Bernstein 8. Risk Ortwin Renn 9. Sustainable Development Joyeeta Gupta and Isa Baud PART II THEORIES AND METHODS 10. Constructivism and Sociological Institutionalism Gerry Nagtzaam 11. Cost-Benefit Analysis Simon Dietz 12. Deep Ecology Kate Booth 13. Deliberative Policy Analysis Hayley Stevenson 14. Feminism Annica Kronsell 15. Governmentality Delf Rothe 16. Integrated Assessment Modelling Detlef van Vuuren and Marcel Kok 17. Neo-Gramscianism Chukwumerije Okereke 18. Neoliberal Institutionalism Thijs Van de Graaf 19. Qualitative Comparative Analysis Olav Schram Stokke and Arild Underdal 20. Quantitative Comparative Analysis Sijeong Lim and Aseem Prakash 21. Simulations Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett 22. Teaching Global Environmental Governance Maria Ivanova 23. World Society David John Frank, Ann Hironaka and Evan Schofer PART III ACTORS 24. Civil Society Karin Bäckstrand 25. European Union Camilla Adelle, David Benson and Andrew Jordan 26. Individuals Tom Oliver 27. International Bureaucracies Bernd Siebenhüner 28. Media Marija Isailovic 29. Private Sector Jonatan Pinkse 30. Religious Movements Randolph Haluza-DeLay 31. Scientists and Experts Silke Beck 32. States Daniel Compagnon 33. United Nations Liliana Andonova and Kathryn Chelminski PART IV INSTITUTIONS 34. Clubs Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen 35. International Organizations Steffen Bauer 36. Mega-Conferences Sander Chan 37. Private Environmental Governance Philipp Pattberg and Marija Isailovic 38. Public-Private Partnerships Ayşem Mert 39. Regimes Eleni Dellas PART V ISSUE AREAS 40. Air Pollution Jørgen Wettestad 41. Arctic Oscar Widerberg 42. Biological Diversity Kristin Rosendal and Morten Walløe Tvedt 43. Biosafety and Genetically Modified Organisms Aarti Gupta 44. Chemicals Nils Simon 45. Climate Change Pier Vellinga 46. Desertification Steffen Bauer 47. Fisheries and Whaling Olav Schram Stokke 48. Forestry and Land Use Tobias Nielsen 49. Hazardous Waste Katja Biedenkopf 50. Ocean Space Jan Stel 51. Ozone Depletion Sophie Godin-Beekmann 52. Phosphorus Dana Cordell and Stuart White 53. Renewable Energy Kacper Szulecki 54. Water Erika Weinthal 55. Wetlands Kenneth Genskow and Kyle Magyera PART VI CROSS-CUTTING QUESTIONS AND EMERGING TOPICS 56. Effectiveness Steinar Andresen 57. Environmental Policy Diffusion Per-Olof Busch 58. Environmental Policy Integration Camilla Adelle and Måns Nilsson 59. Green Economy Ulrich Brand and Miriam Lang 60. Institutional Fragmentation Fariborz Zelli 61. Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals Marianne Beisheim 62. Orchestration Kenneth W. Abbott PART VII BORDERS AND INTERLINKAGES 63. Agriculture Dominic Moran 64. Food Jennifer Clapp 65. Health Kristina Jönsson 66. Poverty Anne Jerneck and Lennart Olsson 67. Security Rita Floyd 68. Trade Robyn Eckersley Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2012, Australia took the major step of introducing a carbon price, involving the creation of a system of emissions permits initially issued at a fixed price. Carbon Pricing brings together experts instrumental in the development, and operation, of Australia's carbon policy who have played a significant role in the broader debate over climate change policy. Together they have achieved an in-depth analysis of Australia s policy stance on pricing carbon and its implications for the wider economy.While the future of carbon pricing is itself unclear in Australia, the experiences, insights and conclusions outlined herein will prove invaluable to a global audience. The assessment of the initial operation of the carbon price provides a wide range of insights into the problems of mitigating climate change, and the prospects for the future. The critical analysis will provide a valuable resource to inform wider international debates concerning alternative mechanisms for internalizing the carbon externality, tax reform, climate skepticism and carbon farming initiatives.With its interdisciplinary approach, Carbon Pricing, will appeal to scholars and researchers of economics in general and climate change, natural resources and energy policy in particular. Those organizations and policymakers involved in similar experiments and processes in other countries will find the experiences and analysis invaluable.Contributors include: D. Adamson, M. Battaglia, W.P. Bell, D. Besley, J. Cook, C. Downie, J. Foster, J. Freebairn, R. Garnaut, S. Grant, M. Harris, S. Kennedy, M. Keogh, T. Mallawaarachchi, R. Nelson, D. Quiggin, J. Quiggin, P. Wild, S. WriterTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Introduction PART I UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS 1. The Carbon Tax: Early Experience and Future Prospects Ross Garnaut 2. Carbon Pricing in Australia: An Early View from the Inside Daniel Besley, Christian Downie, Steven Kennedy and Simon Writer 3. How Has the Carbon Tax Affected the Public ‘Debate’ on Climate Change? John Cook PART II TAXING EXTERNALITIES 4. The Carbon Tax and Tax Reform Debate John Freebairn 5. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RET John Quiggin PART III THREATS, OPPORTUNITIES AND INDUSTRY ADAPTATION AND ADJUSTMENT 6. The Impact of Carbon Prices on Australia’s National Energy Market Phillip Wild, William Paul Bell and John Foster 7. Modeling the Impact of the Australian Greenhouse Emissions Trading Scheme on Farm and Fishery Businesses Mick Keogh 8. Science, Transaction Costs and Carbon Markets Michael Battaglia and Rohan Nelson 9. Agricultural Adaptation: Observations and Insights Thilak Mallawaarachchi and Michael Harris PART IV DEALING WITH THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE 10. Climate Change and the Precautionary Principle Simon Grant and John Quiggin Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a growing body of literature that explores what drives subnational actors to become agenda setters on climate change, sustainability and other environmental matters. This book adds a new dimension to this literature by focusing on international environmental partnerships between states, such as those between Maryland and Schleswig-Holstein, Wisconsin and Bavaria, as well as California and North Rhine-Westphalia. In-depth case studies examine what drives these international partnerships, how they function, and what supports and inhibits their effectiveness. This book represents the most in-depth study that exists of international environmental policy agreements at the subnational level. It is an important addition to the field.'- Miranda Schreurs, Free University of Berlin, GermanyThis fascinating volume examines the recent increase in subnational environmental policy agreements between different countries, with a particular focus on Germany and the US. Holley Ralston explores why international environmental partnerships are forming at the state level and the factors that both aid and inhibit their long-term success.The book begins with an in-depth analysis of the theoretical and historical frameworks of transnational partnerships, before transitioning into a discussion of specific environmental agreements between US and German states. The following partnerships are covered in detail: California and Bavaria (1995 and 2000), Wisconsin and Bavaria (1998), Maryland and Schleswig-Holstein (2002) and California and North Rhine-Westphalia (2004). Taken together, these examples provide important insights into the ways in which multi-level governance structures allow subnational actors to shape policy developments around global environmental issues.This timely study - the first of its kind on this topic - will appeal to both academic researchers and policymakers with an interest in global environmental governance, environmental policymaking, comparative governance and the roles of individuals versus institutions.Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Analyzing Transnational Partnerships: Theoretical Frameworks 3. The Road to the Partnerships: A Historical Background 4. California and Bavaria (1995) 5. Wisconsin and Bavaria (1998) 6. California and Bavaria (2000) 7. Maryland and Schleswig-Holstein (2002) 8. California and North Rhine-Westphalia (2004) 9. Analysis and Implications IndexTrade Review‘There is a growing body of literature that explores what drives subnational actors to become agenda setters on climate change, sustainability and other environmental matters. This book adds a new dimension to this literature by focusing on international environmental partnerships between states, such as those between Maryland and Schleswig–Holstein, Wisconsin and Bavaria, as well as California and North Rhine–Westphalia. In-depth case studies examine what drives these international partnerships, how they function, and what supports and inhibits their effectiveness. This book represents the most in-depth study that exists of international environmental policy agreements at the subnational level. It is an important addition to the field.’ -- Miranda Schreurs, Free University of Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Analyzing Transnational Partnerships: Theoretical Frameworks 3. The Road to the Partnerships: A Historical Background 4. California and Bavaria (1995) 5. Wisconsin and Bavaria (1998) 6. California and Bavaria (2000) 7. Maryland and Schleswig-Holstein (2002) 8. California and North Rhine-Westphalia (2004) 9. Analysis and Implications Index

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Book SynopsisThis highly accessible book gives readers a thorough and nuanced overview of European environmental law, covering on the basic framework and principles as well as substantive law. It provides much-needed insight into a crucial area of legal practice throughout the EU; at a time when environmental law in Member States is becoming ever less 'national' and EU regulation is growing in scope and importance. The book provides state-of-the-art insights into key pieces of legislation and topical developments in various areas of environmental regulation. The first part offers a succinct overview of the framework of European environmental law and the fundamental principles that govern it. This part covers the creation, implementation and enforcement of environmental regulations and includes dedicated chapters on in particular environmental impact assessment and environmental liability. The chapters in the second part offer in-depth analysis of the substantive law in key areas, including biodiversity, air quality, waste and chemicals regulation, and climate change. European environmental regulation is becoming more complex and interrelated, making it a crucial field of study for European law graduates and an area of increasing exposure to the legal profession and in industry. This much-needed book combines detailed legal analysis with a concise and accessible style, making it an ideal companion for students, academics and professionals alike.Trade Review'Within the EU, environmental law has been harmonized almost entirely. EU environmental law, however, does not only dominate national environmental policies and law within the EU member states. It also has a global impact. As EU environmental law is considered to be both innovative and effective, it is often reviewed by policymakers around the world, as well as businesses that are active on global markets. This brilliant book provides an accessible, yet comprehensive and up-to-date overview of EU environmental law.' --Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg University, the Netherlands'While EU environmental law is becoming increasingly complex, this book provides an essential guide to the still growing body of rules and case law. With easily accessible and concise discussions of core topics such as principles, competences, implementation and trade, and various substantive matters including water, nature and climate protection, this book is recommendable to everyone who wants to get a quick but thorough insight into the history and current state of affairs of the body of EU environmental law.' --Marjan Peeters, Maastricht University, the Netherlands'This book is an important work of reference, not only for practitioners and scholars, but for anyone interested in a thoroughly contemporary study of environmental issues.' --The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: 1. Setting the context PART I BASICS/FRAMEWORK OF EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 2. Principles of European Environmental Law 3. Environmental law making in the EU 4: Implementation and enforcement 5. Public Participatory Rights 6. Additional tools in implementing European Environmental Law 7. Environmental and Strategic Impact Assessments 8. Environmental Liability and Environmental Crime 9. State Aid and Competition Law PART II SUBSTANTIVE LEGISLATION 10. Biodiversity and Nature Conservation 11. Water protection legislation and policy 12. Noise pollution legislation and policy 13. Air pollution legislation and policy 14. Climate Change legislation and policy 15. Waste legislation and policy 16. Chemicals legislation and policy 17. Trade and the Environment Index

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Book SynopsisA long overdue volume which comes to grips with the diversity of physical, political and administrative realities behind the seemingly uniform and appealing institution of the River Basin Organization. This book squarely engages with the politics of RBO formation and will provide clues and inspiration to those interested in further exploring the complexities of human institutions in their attempt to manage water resources for the greater good.'- François Molle, IRD and International Water Management Institute (IWMI), France'A critical challenge for humanity is to design institutions for stewardship of water and ecosystem services in a globalized world faced with climate change. Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink take on this challenge in this impressive volume. Through case studies from a diverse set of countries, all using a joint typology as a framework for the analyses, a deeper understanding of the political dimension of river basin stewardship is provided - exciting. Enjoy!'- Carl Folke, Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden'There is no better book on river basin organisations for practitioners and researchers. It imposes tough criteria to evaluate the performance of eleven such hydrologic based governance forms. Findings are surprising and cautionary for water resources reformers. The authors suggest that the demands of complex interaction and interplay in layered organisational environments, the power of inertia to thwart change, and inability to command resources can overwhelm the aspirations of river basin organisations for coordination, accountability, legitimacy and environmental effectiveness. This book belongs in the library of everyone seriously interested in water management.'- Helen Ingram, University of California at Irvine and University of Arizona, USCan River Basin Organisations (RBOs) actually improve water governance? RBOs are frequently layered on top of existing governmental organisations, which are often reluctant to share their power. This, in turn, can affect their performance. The Politics of River Basin Organisations addresses this issue by exploring the subject on a global level.With the use of case studies from such diverse countries as Mongolia, Afghanistan and South Africa, the expert contributors to The Politics of River Basin Organisations provide a comprehensive assessment of the performance of eleven RBOs around the world. They develop a typology that works to characterize the institutional design of these organizations whilst distinguishing between them.This unique book will appeal to those involved in environmental and water policy and governance. It will also be of interest to practitioners of water management looking to improve their approach to the field.Contributors: D. Benson, C. Bernhardt, A. Guerreiro de Brito, D. Calvert, D. Connell, H. Cook, I. Dombrowsky, N. Funke, S. Ganjanapan, J. Gupta, N. Hagemann, L. Horlemann, A. Houdret, F. Hüesker, D. Huitema, F. Jaspers, A. Inman, D. Lach, L. Lebel, M. Leidel, R. de Loë, S. Meijerink, R. Meissner, M. Morris, A. Ross, A. Thiel, V. Thomas, J. WarnerTrade Review‘A long overdue volume which comes to grips with the diversity of physical, political and administrative realities behind the seemingly uniform and appealing institution of the River Basin Organization. This book squarely engages with the politics of RBO formation and will provide clues and inspiration to those interested in further exploring the complexities of human institutions in their attempt to manage water resources for the greater good.’ -- François Molle, IRD and International Water Management Institute (IWMI), France‘A critical challenge for humanity is to design institutions for stewardship of water and ecosystem services in a globalized world faced with climate change. Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink take on this challenge in this impressive volume. Through case studies from a diverse set of countries, all using a joint typology as a framework for the analyses, a deeper understanding of the political dimension of river basin stewardship is provided – exciting. Enjoy!’ -- Carl Folke, Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden‘There is no better book on river basin organisations for practitioners and researchers. It imposes tough criteria to evaluate the performance of eleven such hydrologic based governance forms. Findings are surprising and cautionary for water resources reformers. The authors suggest that the demands of complex interaction and interplay in layered organisational environments, the power of inertia to thwart change, and inability to command resources can overwhelm the aspirations of river basin organisations for coordination, accountability, legitimacy and environmental effectiveness. This book belongs in the library of everyone seriously interested in water management.’ -- Helen Ingram, University of California at Irvine and University of Arizona, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Politics of River Basin Organisations. Institutional Design Choices, Coalitions and Consequences Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink 2. Global Water Governance and River Basin Organisations Frank Jaspers and Joyeeta Gupta 3. Cooperative Transboundary Water Governance in Canada’s Mackenzie River Basin: Status and Prospects Rob de Loë and Michelle Morris 4. Designing an Agency to Manage a Wicked Water Problem: The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Denise Lach and Dan Calvert 5. Partnering for Success in England: The Westcountry Rivers Trust Hadrian Cook, David Benson and Alex Inman 6. State-Founded Water Boards in Industrialized Western Germany Frank Hüesker and Christoph Bernhardt 7. Emergence, Performance and Transformation of Portuguese Water Institutions in the Age of River Basin Organisations Andreas Thiel and António Guerreiro de Brito 8. The Politics of Establishing Catchment Management Agencies in South Africa: The Case of the Breede-Overberg Catchment Management Agency Richard Meissner and Nikki Funke 9. Introducing River Basin Management in a Transitional Context – A Case Study about Ukraine Nina Hagemann and Marco Leidel 10. River Basin Organisations in Northern Afghanistan: The Holy Trinity of Contemporary Water Management in Practice Jeroen Warner and Vincent Thomas 11. Evolving River Basin Management in Mongolia? Ines Dombrowsky, Annabelle Houdret and Lena Horlemann 12. Interplay Between New Basin Organisations, Pre-existing Institutions and Emerging Environmental Networks in the Mae Kuang Watershed, Northern Thailand Santita Ganjanapan and Louis Lebel 13. The Evolution of River Basin Management in the Murray-Darling Basin Andrew Ross and Daniel Connell 14. Institutional Design, Politics and Performance of River Basin Organisations Sander Meijerink and Dave Huitema Index

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Book SynopsisHere finally is a book that educates us deeply about the economic costs and gains of cleaning up the environment and of finally coming to terms with the costs of human induced climate at the micro- and macro-economic level. Replete with case studies from China, Australia and the USA, demonstrating deep erudition and extensive use of empirical data, it remains accessible to the general reader, as well as the economist. It should be mandated as required reading for all public policy analysts and politicians.'- Greg Bailey, La Trobe University, AustraliaThe Costs and Benefits of Environmental Regulation presents a thorough investigation into environmental regulation, its economic and financial effects and the associated costs and benefits. A variety of issues, pertaining to regulation in general and environmental regulation in particular, are examined. These issues include the theories of regulation and how it is viewed in terms of the free market doctrine, forms of regulation, command-and-control regulation as opposed to market-based regulation and the cost-benefit analysis of environmental regulation.The authors present an extensive survey of the empirical evidence on the determinants of environmental performance as well as the effects of environmental regulation on the costs of production, plant location, firm-level productivity, stock prices and returns, profitability, market value, financial risk, employment, competitiveness, international trade, aggregate output and aggregate productivity. The authors conclude that it is essential to allocate appropriate funds to combat the environmental damage we are inflicting on the planet.Presenting a comprehensive survey of the costs, benefits and effects of environmental regulation and written mostly in simple language that is accessible to the non-specialist, the book will prove an essential resource for academics, research students and policy makers in the fields of environmental regulation and economics.Contents: Preface 1. Regulation: Definition and Classification 2. Regulation and the Free Market Doctrine 3. Theories of Regulation 4. Environmental Regulation: Some Basic Issues 5. Cost-Benefit Analysis: Identification of Costs and Benefits 6. The Cost-Benefit Analysis Debate 7. The Microeconomic Effects of Environmental Regulation 8. The Financial Effects of Environmental Regulation 9. The Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Regulation: Employment, Trade and Competitiveness 10. The Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Regulation: Aggregate Output and Productivity 11. Environmental Regulation in Australia: The Failure of 'Wax and Wane' Policies 12. Environmental Regulation in China: A Life-Saving Mechanism in a Pollution Haven 13. Summary and Concluding Remarks Appendix to Chapter 13 References IndexTrade Review‘Here finally is a book that educates us deeply about the economic costs and gains of cleaning up the environment and of finally coming to terms with the costs of human induced climate at the micro- and macro-economic level. Replete with case studies from China, Australia and the USA, demonstrating deep erudition and extensive use of empirical data, it remains accessible to the general reader, as well as the economist. It should be mandated as required reading for all public policy analysts and politicians.’ -- Greg Bailey, La Trobe University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Regulation: Definition and Classification 2. Regulation and the Free Market Doctrine 3. Theories of Regulation 4. Environmental Regulation: Some Basic Issues 5. Cost-Benefit Analysis: Identification of Costs and Benefits 6. The Cost-Benefit Analysis Debate 7. The Microeconomic Effects of Environmental Regulation 8. The Financial Effects of Environmental Regulation 9. The Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Regulation: Employment, Trade and Competitiveness 10. The Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Regulation: Aggregate Output and Productivity 11. Environmental Regulation in Australia: The Failure of ‘Wax and Wane’ Policies 12. Environmental Regulation in China: A Life-Saving Mechanism in a Pollution Haven 13. Summary and Concluding Remarks Appendix to Chapter 13 References Index

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Book SynopsisRegulatory impact assessment (RIA) is the main instrument used by governments and regulators to appraise the likely effects of their policy proposals. This pioneering Handbook provides a comparative and comprehensive account of this tool, situating it in the relevant theoretical traditions and scrutinizing its use across countries, policy sectors and policy instruments.Comprising six parts, university researchers, international consultants and practitioners working in international organizations examine regulatory impact assessment from many perspectives, which include: research traditions in the social sciences implementation, regulatory indicators and effects tools and dimensions such as courts and gender sectoral case studies including environment, enterprise and international development international diffusion in the European Union (EU), Americas, Asia and developing countries appraisal, training and education. With its wealth of detail and lessons to be learned, the Handbook of Regulatory Impact Assessment will undoubtedly be of great value to practitioners and scholars working in governance, political science and socio-legal studies.Contributors: C. Adelle, A. Alemanno, L. Allio, C. Arndt, F. Blanc, A. Bond, G. Bounds, P.G.H. Carroll, P. Coletti, F. De Francesco, C.A. Dunlop, M. Fazekas, O. Fritsch, F. Gains, J. Howell, S. Jacobs, A. Jordan, J.C. Kamkhaji, M. Karliuk, S.-J. Kim, T.-Y. Kim, C. Kirkpatrick, I. Lianos, D. Macrae, A.C.M. Meuwese, G. Ottimofiore, J.R. Palmer, D. Parker, A. Peci, C.M. Radaelli, A. Renda, D. Russel, L. Schrefler, J.A. Schwartz, W.R. Sheate, J. Torriti, J. Turnpenny, S. van Voorst, E. Vecchione, W.F. WestTrade Review'Another excellent testimony to the steady increase in the political and academic appreciation of Regulatory impact assessment (RIA). Dunlop and Radaelli appropriately position RIA inside the broader field of good governance and comparative public policy: RIA is a matter of good policy-making and not (only) about reducing regulatory burdens. This publication is framed around valid assumptions about RIA as a highly contextualized phenomenon with stakeholders extracting very different kinds of purpose from the use of RIA. It is an important contribution to the growing regulatory governance agenda. The skilful consolidation of existing research and experiences, combined with new insights and innovations from leading experts and practitioners make this an interesting read for both scholars, policy-makers and specialists in (regulatory) governance.' --Peter Ladegaard, Regulatory Reform in China and the EU, The World Bank'This impressive Handbook, with high standard contributions from thirty-eight authors in political science, economics, law, business and geography, could not be more timely. Comprehensive, well grounded in theory, well-written and thought-through, this book brings a balanced account of (regulatory) impact assessment as being not only a rational-expert instrument, but also a process affected and interwoven with political decision-making. A must-read for all those academics and practitioners across the globe interested in policy-making.' --Koen Verhoest, University of Antwerp, Co-chair ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements PART I INTRODUCTION 1. The Politics and Economics of Regulatory Impact Assessment Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli PART II APPROACHES 2. Regulatory Impact Assessment in Legal Studies Anne C.M. Meuwese and Stijn van Voorst 3. The Economics of Cost-Benefit Analysis Jason A. Schwartz 4. Interpretive Analysis and Regulatory Impact Assessment James R. Palmer 5. Compliance and Delivery Analysis Donald Macrae 6. Towards a Simpler and Practical Approach Scott Jacobs PART III TOOLS, ACTORS AND DIMENSIONS 7. Standard Cost Model Paola Coletti 8. Social Impact Assessment Lorna Schrefler 9. Courts and Regulatory Impact Assessment Alberto Alemanno 10. Gender and Regulatory Impact Assessment Francesca Gains 11. Consultation Florentin Blanc and Giuseppa Ottimofiore 12. Risk Analysis Elisa Vecchione PART IV SECTORS 13. Environment John Turnpenny, Duncan Russel, Andrew Jordan, Alan Bond and William R. Sheate 14. Energy Jacopo Torriti 15. Agriculture Duncan Russel 16. Enterprise and Competition David Parker 17. International Development Camilla Adelle PART V DIFFUSION 18. Diffusion across OECD Countries Fabrizio De Francesco 19. Cross-National Diffusion in Europe Ioannis Lianos, Mihály Fazekas and Maksim Karliuk 20. European Union Andrea Renda 21. United States of America William F. West 22. Latin America Alketa Peci 23. Australia and New Zealand Peter G.H. Carroll 24. South Korea Tae-Yun Kim and SongJune Kim 25. Developing Countries Colin Kirkpatrick PART VI IMPLEMENTATION 26. Implementing in the Laboratory: Scorecards for Appraising Regulatory Impact Assessment Oliver Fritsch and Jonathan C. Kamkhaji 27. Designing Performance Frameworks: the Case of the OECD Christiane Arndt and Gregory Bounds 28. Implementing in the Classroom: Teaching Regulatory Impact Assessment Lorenzo Allio 29. Implementing Regulatory Impact Assessment in the Real World: Practitioner Stories from the Field John Howell Index

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Book SynopsisA breathtaking review which covers the major approaches and actors in the governance of climate change this carefully edited book includes essays from dozens of scholars who are shaping our understanding of responses to the real and existential risks of a warming world. The book is especially strong in its discussion of how critical social theory can help us understand the politics of climate change, in its histories of climate policy, and in the multiple perspectives it provides on the international climate regime across sectors, institutions, countries and scales. I was impressed by the diversity of authors, including the number of women contributors, and by the efforts to connect research to political action.'- Diana Liverman, University of Arizona, US'Bäckstrand and Lövbrand have crafted a remarkable volume, gathering over fifty cutting-edge scholars engaging every aspect of climate governance-what it has been, what it is, and what it could and should be. This is truly a one-stop shop for grasping the diversity of research on climate governance. It will engage students exploring the field, scholars seeking to understand the state of the art, and practitioners looking to make sense of the challenges of responding to this most crucial of global issues.'- Matthew Hoffman, University of Toronto, Canada'As the ambit of climate governance has expanded out from the UN to encompass myriad actors at multiple levels, so too has the challenge of understanding the whole. This comprehensive and expertly edited Handbook provides the alpha and omega of climate governance scholarship. I confidently predict that it will become the standard reference for years to come.'- Andy Jordan, University of East Anglia, UKThe 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen is often represented as a turning point in global climate politics, when the diplomatic efforts to negotiate a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol failed and was replaced by a fragmented and decentralized climate governance order. In the post-Copenhagen landscape the top-down universal approach to climate governance has gradually given way to a more complex, hybrid and dispersed political landscape involving multiple actors, arenas and sites.Drawing upon contributions from more than 50 internationally renowned scholars, the Handbook assesses the state and direction of climate governance at multilateral, EU, national and local levels. The volume mobilizes multiple scholarly traditions ranging from grand theorizing to close empirical studies of micro-political practices, and spans the ideational and the material, the historical and the contemporary, the normative and the critical. The resulting collection of chapters represents the state of the art and most recent thinking in the rich and expanding scholarship on climate politics and governance.Contributors: C.E. Adler, P. Aldunce, D. Alegría, A. Anderson, S. Andresen, C. Åsberg, K. Bäckstrand, I. Bailey, G. Bang, S. Beck, M. Betsill, H. Betts, F. Biermann, R. Bórquez, M. Boström, H. Bulkeley, D. Ciplet, J. de Koning, L. Dilling, R.S. Dimitrov, K. Dingwerth, C. Dupont, R. Eckersley, F. Fischer, D.R. Fisher, T. Forsyth, V. Galaz, A.M. Galli, J.F. Green, R. Grundmann, A. Gupta, J. Gupta, A. Hansson, P.G. Harris, S. Hayes, K. Hochstetler, M. Hulme, K. Indvik, V. Jankovic, S. Jasanoff, C. Karlsson, M. Khan, M. Klintman, A. Kronsell, M. Lederer, B.-O. Linnér, R.D. Lipschutz, E. Lövbrand, H. Lovell, M. Mason, S. Matti, J. McGee, A. Neimanis, P. Newell, S. Oberthür, A. Oels, C. Okereke, E.A. Page, C.F. Parker, A. Persson, S. Rayner, T. Rayner, P. Revell, J.T. Roberts, H. Schroeder, B. Siebenhüner, M.M. Skutsch, P. Stalley, H. Stevenson, J. Stripple, E. Turnhout, H. van Asselt, E. Viola, J. Vogler, J. Wettestad, V. Wibeck, F. ZelliTrade Review‘A breathtaking review which covers the major approaches and actors in the governance of climate change this carefully edited book includes essays from dozens of scholars who are shaping our understanding of responses to the real and existential risks of a warming world. The book is especially strong in its discussion of how critical social theory can help us understand the politics of climate change, in its histories of climate policy, and in the multiple perspectives it provides on the international climate regime across sectors, institutions, countries and scales. I was impressed by the diversity of authors, including the number of women contributors, and by the efforts to connect research to political action.’ -- Diana Liverman, University of Arizona, US‘Bäckstrand and Lövbrand have crafted a remarkable volume, gathering over fifty cutting-edge scholars engaging every aspect of climate governance—what it has been, what it is, and what it could and should be. This is truly a one-stop shop for grasping the diversity of research on climate governance. It will engage students exploring the field, scholars seeking to understand the state of the art, and practitioners looking to make sense of the challenges of responding to this most crucial of global issues.’ -- Matthew Hoffman, University of Toronto, Canada‘As the ambit of climate governance has expanded out from the UN to encompass myriad actors at multiple levels, so too has the challenge of understanding the whole. This comprehensive and expertly edited Handbook provides the alpha and omega of climate governance scholarship. I confidently predict that it will become the standard reference for years to come.’ -- Andy Jordan, University of East Anglia, UK‘In a field already densely populated with handbooks, the Research Handbook on Climate Governance offers a fresh approach to the burgeoning field of climate governance. Drawing on an impressive list of world-leading scholars, Bäckstrand and Lövbrand have masterfully fashioned a magnificent tour d'horizon of a wide range of climate-related topics, from the normative dimensions of climate governance to its concrete modes of operation and technological underpinnings. This landmark compendium is an indispensable resource for scholars, students and practitioners engaged in climate governance around the world.’ -- Philipp Pattberg, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands‘Bäckstrand and Lövbrand have expertly assembled a cutting-edge collection of essays that look critically at the changing landscape of climate governance in the “post-Copenhagen era”. Moving beyond the typical handbook, the collection provides a rich offering of both theoretical and empirical reflections to help students and researchers alike think creatively about governance needs and opportunities in the face of this wicked problem. The book is both an excellent teaching tool and a source of creative inspiration for future climate change research.’ -- Sikina Jinnah, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I THEORIZING CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 1. Global Governance Markus Lederer 2. Realism John Vogler 3. Political Economy Peter Newell 4. Science and Technology Studies Sheila Jasanoff 5. Governmentality Johannes Stripple and Harriet Bulkeley 6. Deliberative Democracy Hayley Stevenson 7. Feminism Annica Kronsell 8. Normative Theory Edward A. Page PART II PROCESSES AND SITES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 9. Climate Diplomacy Radoslav S. Dimitrov 10. Geopolitics David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan 11. Fragmentation Fariborz Zelli and Harro van Asselt 12. Minilateralism Jeffrey McGee 13. The North-South Divide Joyeeta Gupta 14. Transnationalism Klaus Dingwerth and Jessica F. Green 15. Vulnerability Tim Forsyth 16. Climate Skepticism Reiner Grundmann SECTION III THE STATE AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 17. Climate Leadership Charles F. Parker and Christer Karlsson 18. China Phillip Stalley 19. The United States Guri Bang 20. The European Union Claire Dupont and Sebastian Oberthür 21. Brazil Eduardo Viola and Kathryn Hochstetler SECTION IV: NON-STATE AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 22. NGOs Michele Betsill 23. Business Chukwumerije Okereke 24. International Bureaucracies Bernd Siebenhüner 25. Science Silke Beck 26. Civil Society Dana R. Fisher and Anya M. Galli 27. Citizen-Consumers Mikael Klintman and Magnus Boström 28. News Media Alison Anderson 29. The City Vladimir Janković SECTION V: MODES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 30. EU Emissions Trading Jørgen Wettestad 31. Low Carbon Economies Heather Lovell 32. Carbon Aaccounting Esther Turnhout, Margaret M. Skutsch and Jessica de Koning 33. Multi-stakeholder Governance Hannah Betts and Heike Schroeder 34. Climate Policy Integration Harro van Asselt, Tim Rayner and Åsa Persson 35. Climate Policy Instruments Simon Matti 36. Climate Engineering Anders Hansson, Steve Rayner and Victoria Wibeck SECTION VI: NORMATIVE IDEALS OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 37. Regime Effectiveness Steinar Andresen 38. Ecological Democracy Frank Fischer 39. Transparency Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason 40. Security Angela Oels 41. Adaptation Lisa Dilling 42. Posthumanist Imaginaries Astrida Neimanis, Cecilia Åsberg and Suzi Hayes 43. Resilience Carolina E. Adler, Paulina Aldunce, Katherine Indvik, Denís Alegría, Roxana Bórquez and Victor Galaz SECTION VII: THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE 44. Multilateralism in Crisis? Robyn Eckersley 45. Reform Options Frank Biermann 46. Re-politicizing Climate Governance Ian Bailey and Piers Revell 47. Property and Privatization Ronnie D. Lipschutz 48. Innovation Investments Björn-Ola Linnér and Steve Rayner 49. Knowledge Pluralism Mike Hulme 50. The Future Paul G. Harris Index

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Book SynopsisThe normative and institutional distance travelled since UNCHE has been considerable. There have been notable successes, but more often than not environmental indicators continue to evince disturbing downward trends. This collection brings together cutting-edge scholarship designed to explore where we have been, where we are, and where we might be going - Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads. Contributors explore the continuing challenges we face, but they also look ably and deeply at the opportunities for improvement in governance that might address these challenges. For those concerned where we are headed, this will be a welcome addition to the library.'- Donald K. Anton, The Australian National University College of Law'This is a remarkable publication wherein some of the world s leading environmentalists discuss in an informed and transparent manner global, regional and national environmental challenges. The unique character of this book is that it links global issues of the environment (sustainable development; the creation of the World Environmental Organization) with national issues such as the right of nature in Ecuador. The book also presents a critical overview of the Rio+20 Conference. The particular feature of this outstanding book is its very analytical and straightforward approach to environmental issues adopted by its authors. Such a book is a must to all environmental lawyers, scholars and practitioners and in particular for a young generation of people who are interested in our planet.'- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of LondonGlobal Environmental Law at a Crossroads analyzes cutting-edge developments in environmental law around the globe. Written in the aftermath of the 'Rio+20' conference, this book addresses environmental governance from the international, regional and national levels. The topics include climate change initiatives, market-based environmental measures, water and food systems management, environmental governance structures and theories, and examples of environmental policy innovations from around the world. The global coverage draws on experiences from the EU, the Middle East, China, Brazil, Ecuador, Nigeria, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Australia.This book will be a useful resource to scholars and students of environmental law and policy. Government and environmental officials as well as resource managers will find of interest the analyses of varied experiences around the world. These comparative experiences provide a rich introduction to the emerging field of global environmental law.Contributors: R. Ako, M.B. Tekle, P. Chen, D. Craig, E. Daly, T. Daya-Winterbottom, S. Fulton, A.L. Garcia Campos, Ni. Goeteyn, J.J. i Manzano, A. Kennedy, I.E. Kornfeld, L.-H. Lye, N. Lugaresi, F. Maes, J.R. May, A.M. de Oliveira Nusdeo, C. Parrod, L. Schiano di Pepe, A. Telesetsky, J. Williams, S. Wolfson,Y. ZhaoTrade Review‘Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads is well worth a read - it paints a thoughtful, multi-faceted picture of the current tides of environmental law in the various levels of it.’ -- Tiina Paloniitty, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law‘The normative and institutional distance travelled since UNCHE has been considerable. There have been notable successes, but more often than not environmental indicators continue to evince disturbing downward trends. This collection brings together cutting-edge scholarship designed to explore where we have been, where we are, and where we might be going – Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads. Contributors explore the continuing challenges we face, but they also look ably and deeply at the opportunities for improvement in governance that might address these challenges. For those concerned where we are headed, this will be a welcome addition to the library.’ -- Donald K. Anton, The Australian National University College of Law‘This is a remarkable publication wherein some of the world’s leading environmentalists discuss in an informed and transparent manner global, regional and national environmental challenges. The unique character of this book is that it links global issues of the environment (sustainable development; the creation of the World Environmental Organization) with national issues such as the right of nature in Ecuador. The book also presents a critical overview of the Rio+20 Conference. The particular feature of this outstanding book is its very analytical and straightforward approach to environmental issues adopted by its authors. Such a book is a must to all environmental lawyers, scholars and practitioners and in particular for a young generation of people who are interested in our planet.’ -- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsPART I: ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS Introduction 1. Strengthening National Environmental Governance to Promote Sustainable Development. Scott Fulton and Steve Wolfson 2. The Future We Want and Constitutionally Enshrined Procedural Rights in Environmental Matters. James R. May and Erin Daly 3. The Rights of Nature in Ecuador: An Opportunity to Reflect on Society, Law and Environment. Jordi Jaria i Manzano 4. Environmental NGOs and Sustainable Development in China. Yuhong Zhao PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES – A WORLD TOUR 5. The Middle East: Climate Change, Water Insecurity and Hydro-diplomacy. Itzchak Kornfeld 6. Land Grabbing and Food Security in Ethiopia: The Dilemmas of Sustainable Development. Mekete Bekele Tekle 7. Protecting Gifts from the Sea: Ocean Governance for Living Marine Resources after Rio +20. Anastasia Telesetsky 8. Lost in Translation: Threatened Species Law in Australia. Jacqueline Williams, Amanda Kennedy, and Donna Craig 9. Environmental Justice in Nigeria’s Oil Industry: Recognizing and Embracing Contemporary Legal Developments. Rhuks Ako 10. The Clean Development Mechanism and its Sustainable Development Premise: the Inadequacy of the Kyoto Protocol to Guarantee Climate Justice. Camille Parrod PART III: GOVERNANCE MODELS – LOOKING TO THE FUTURE 11. The Unbearable Tiredness of Sustainable Development (At Different Levels, Lately). Nicola Lugaresi 12. Cap and Trade versus Carbon Tax to Mitigate Climate Change: One-Size-Fits-All Solution in China? Ping Chen and Frank Maes 13. Environmental Law, Policy, and Governance: Environmental Management Systems for Cities. Lye Lin-Heng 14. Sustainable Management, a Sustainable Ethic? Trevor Daya-Winterbottom 15. Payment of Ecosystem Services in Brazil: Between Efficiency and Equity. Ana Maria de Oliveira Nusdeo and Ana Luiza Garcia Campos 16. European Union Climate Law & Practice at the End of the Kyoto Era: Unilateralism, Extraterritoriality and the Future of Global Climate Change Governance. Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe 17. Legal Challenges in the Creation of a World Environmental Organisation Nils Goeteyn Index

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Book SynopsisThe European Union's renewable energy policy is one of the most ambitious attempts to facilitate a transition towards more sustainable energy systems. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the policy and its implementation. It contains key case studies for understanding how member states have shaped the policy, how the EU has affected the policies of its member states and how renewable energy policies have diffused horizontally. An analysis of its external dimension is also included. This remarkable guide is the first comprehensive attempt to shed light on the complex dynamics of renewable energy promotion in the European multilevel system. Theoretically driven, the study employs Europeanization as an analytical framework for assessing policy change, both at the EU level and in the member states, and compares the development of renewable energy policies in the electricity and transport sectors from the 1980s to the present. Comprising contributions from leading scholars, the book is an indispensible guide for academics, researchers and students interested in EU energy and climate policies in general and EU renewable energy policy specifically, as well as practitioners and stakeholders involved in renewable energy policy and climate protection.Contributors include: A. Ancygier, M. Bechberger, P. Bocquillon, S. Davidescu, L. Di Lucia, M.R. Di Nucci, H. Dyrhauge, G. Escribano, A. Evrard, J. Fairbrass, R. Fernandez, B. Hirschl, R. Hiteva, T. Hoppe, K. Jankowska, H. Jörgens, T. Maltby, D. Ohlhorst, E. Öller, D. Russolillo, I. Solorio, E. van Bueren, T. VogelpohlTrade Review'The word ''guide'' in the title of this book is an understatement. With its focus on renewable energy policies in a wide range of EU member states, this book fills an important gap in the literature. The rigorous structure of the chapters, all of them written by key experts in the field, and the incisive analysis of national policies and processes of Europeanization in the concluding chapter make it a major achievement of comparative research. A must-read for everyone interested in energy and climate change politics!' --Duncan Liefferink, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands'Renewable energy policy is a well-established, high-ranking policy in Europe but its perspectives, strengths and weaknesses need competent analysis. This book is a highly valuable ''standard'' publication not only for energy and climate policy experts but also for political and social scientists.' --Martin Janicke, Freie Universitat Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes Preface by Helge Jörgens, Israel Solorio and Mischa Bechberger Part I Introduction 1. The EU and the promotion of renewable energy- An analytical framework Helge Jörgens and Israel Solorio 2. EU renewable energy policy: A brief overview of its history and evolution Israel Solorio and Pierre Bocquillon Part II National case studies 3. German renewable energy policy– independent pioneering versus creeping Europeanization? Thomas Vogelpohl, Dörte Ohlhorst, Mischa Bechberger and Bernd Hirschl 4. From frontrunner to laggard: the Netherlands and Europeanization in the cases of RES-E and biofuel stimulation Thomas Hoppe and Ellen van Bueren 5. Denmark: a wind powered forerunner Helene Dyrhauge 6. The UK and EU renewable energy policy: the relentless British policy-shaper Israel Solorio and Jenny Fairbrass 7. The fuzzy Europeanization of the Italian renewable energy policy: the paradox of meeting targets without strategic capacity Maria Rosaria Di Nucci and Daniele Russolillo 8. Spain and renewable energy promotion: Europeanization upside down Israel Solorio and Rosa Fernandez 9. Complying with, resisting or using Europe? Explaining the uneven and diffuse Europeanization of French renewable electricity and biofuels policies Pierre Bocquillon and Aurélien Evrard 10. Poland at the renewable energy policy crossroads –an incongruent Europeanization? Karolina Jankowska and Andrzej Ancygier 11. The Europeanization of renewable energy policy in Romania Simona Davidescu 12. Hitting the target but missing the point: failing and succeeding in the Bulgarian renewable energy sector Ralitsa Hiteva and Tomas Maltby Part III External dimension 13. RES in the Hood and the shrinking Mediterranean Solar Plan Gonzalo Escribano 14. External governance and Europeanization beyond borders – EU biofuel policies in Mozambique Lorenzo Di Lucia Part IV Conclusions 15. Conclusions: Patterns of Europeanization and policy change in the renewable energy policy domain Helge Jörgens, Eva Öller and Israel Solorio Index

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Book SynopsisChristian Downie's historical look at the negotiating behavior of the United States and the European Union during international efforts to implement a meaningful climate change treaty, go a long way toward explaining why current negotiations are bogged down. His findings about the impact of domestic politics on international negotiations should not be overlooked. The only way we will able to move to a new set of enforceable and meaningful greenhouse gas reduction commitments is to understand why past approaches have not worked.'- Lawrence Susskind, Harvard Law School, US'This is an enormously well-researched study that addresses an important hitherto-unanswered problem of negotiations. Usually single instances are analyzed but what about serial negotiations that return again and again to the subject, where the parties change position in their course? Downie tells us how this happens and in the process, enriches our understanding of negotiation. I enjoyed reading this book.'- I. William Zartman, The Johns Hopkins University, USThe Politics of Climate Change Negotiations describes the successes and failures of protracted international negotiations and most importantly, examines the lessons they hold for the future.Drawing on more than 100 interviews with climate change insiders, including former ministers, chief negotiators and presidential advisers, Christian Downie presents a rare inside account of why states agree to what they do and why they change their position in long negotiations. He also identifies eight strategies that others can use to influence the most powerful states in the world.This book will be invaluable to academics and students working in the fields of international relations, political science, negotiation studies and global environmental politics. It will be of equal value to diplomats, policymakers and various non-governmental organizations that seek to influence international negotiations.Contents: Part I: International Negotiations and Theoretical Background 1. Introduction 2. Histories and Theories of International Negotiations Part II: The Case Studies 3. Toward Berlin 1993 - 1995: Environmental Interests and a Tentative Agreement 4. From Berlin to Kyoto 1995 - 1997: Rising Opposition to Environmental Interests 5. From Kyoto to The Hague 1998 2000: Shifting Political Dynamics and a Question of Ratification Part III: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Implications 6. Discussion: The Behaviour of the US and the EU in the International Climate Change Negotiations 7. Toward an Understanding of Prolonged International Negotiations ReferencesTrade Review‘The Politics of Climate Change Negotiations is an engrossing account of international climate change negotiations, which also makes a major theoretical contribution to the study of negotiations.’ -- Larry Crump, Australian Outlook‘Christian Downie's historical look at the negotiating behavior of the United States and the European Union during international efforts to implement a meaningful climate change treaty, go a long way toward explaining why current negotiations are bogged down. His findings about the impact of domestic politics on international negotiations should not be overlooked. The only way we will able to move to a new set of enforceable and meaningful greenhouse gas reduction commitments is to understand why past approaches have not worked.’ -- Lawrence Susskind, Harvard Law School, US‘The Politics of Climate Change Negotiations is an engrossing account of international climate change negotiations, which also makes a major theoretical contribution to the study of negotiations. Of course, the lessons are not just theoretical and one can only hope that those due to meet in Paris in 2015 heed the lessons of history.’ -- Dr Larry Crump, Griffith APEC Study Centre, Griffith University, Australia‘This is an enormously well-researched study that addresses an important hitherto-unanswered problem of negotiations. Usually single instances are analyzed but what about serial negotiations that return again and again to the subject, where the parties change position in their course? Downie tells us how this happens and in the process, enriches our understanding of negotiation. I enjoyed reading this book.’ -- I. William Zartman, The Johns Hopkins University, US‘Christian Downie has written an excellent book on the politics of prolonged international negotiations. Looking centrally at the area of climate change, Downie unpacks how and why state preferences shift over long time horizons. The book will be of interest to academics and practitioners concerned with international relations (IR) theory, comparative politics, and (most importantly) the evolution of climate negotiations.’ -- Carbon and Climate Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Part I: International Negotiations and Theoretical Background 1. Introduction 2. Histories and Theories of International Negotiations Part II: The Case Studies 3. Toward Berlin 1993 – 1995: Environmental Interests and a Tentative Agreement 4. From Berlin to Kyoto 1995 – 1997: Rising Opposition to Environmental Interests 5. From Kyoto to The Hague 1998 – 2000: Shifting Political Dynamics and a Question of Ratification Part III: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Implications 6. Discussion: The Behaviour of the US and the EU in the International Climate Change Negotiations 7. Toward an Understanding of Prolonged International Negotiations References

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Book SynopsisThe literature on multi-level governance (MLG), an approach that explicitly looks at the system of the many interacting authority structures at work in the global political economy, has grown significantly over the last decade. The authors in this volume examine how multilevel governance (MLG) systems address climate change and water policy.By taking a comparative perspective, the contributors seek to examine the impact of multilevel governance on the environment. They show how the interplay between autonomous governments at the sub-national, federal or supranational and international levels in MLG systems create unique challenges and opportunities. Both cutting greenhouse gas emissions and allocating river flows require tough political or legal decisions that create winners and losers. This book offers a cogent examination of the successes and failures of the United States, European Union, Canada and Australia in grappling with these policy problems.This book will appeal to academics and students of public policy, international affairs and environment studies. Those working in government institutions will find the research both interesting and invaluable.Contributors: D. Benson, D.J. Fiorino, D. Gordon, B.T. Heinmiller, A. Jordan, K. Kern, D. Macdonald, J. Meadowcroft, M. Pallemaerts, B.G. Rabe, I. WeibustTable of ContentsContents: PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE 1. Introduction Inger Weibust 2. Too Many Levels or Just About Right? Multilevel Governance and Environmental Performance Daniel J. Fiorino PART II: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF WATER RESOURCES 3. Subsidiarity as a ‘Scaling Device’ in Environmental Governance: The Case of the European Union David Benson and Andrew Jordan 4. Multilevel Governance and the Politics of Environmental Water Recoveries B. Timothy Heinmiller 5. Playing a Zero Sum Game: Sharing Water between Jurisdictions in Federations Inger Weibust PART III: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION 6. Climate Governance in the European Union Multi-level System: The Role of the Cities Kristine Kern 7. Bottom-up versus Top-down: The Evolving American Climate Policy Odyssey Barry G. Rabe 8. Institutional Strength, Intergovernmental Relations, and National Climate Policy Coordination: Australia and Canada Compared David Gordon and Douglas Macdonald 9. Allocating Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Amongst Sectors and Jurisdictions in Federated Systems: The European Union, Germany and Canada Douglas Macdonald PART IV: FINDINGS ON EFFECTIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE PATTERNS 10. Ensuring the Effectiveness of European Union Environmental Law: From Supranational Lawmaking to Multilevel Enforcement Marc Pallemaerts 11. What is Multilevel Environmental Governance? When Does It Work? Inger Weibust Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book examines the role played by regional authorities in the EU in the transition towards renewable energy. Regional governments generally have important decision-making powers concerning energy transition, but they may encounter resistance to the establishment of renewable energy activities in their communities.Drawing on both academia and practice, the expert contributors explore some of the key legal questions that have emerged along the energy transition path. Specific attention is paid to support mechanisms, administrative procedures for authorizing renewable energy projects, including the relevance of procedural rights as set out in the Aarhus Convention, and opportunities for allowing citizens, particularly citizens living near renewable energy projects, participate financially in renewable energy production. Based on experiences in several Member States (Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands) improvements to the content and application of the law are discussed. The book shows the complexities of renewable energy law, which will most likely become a controversial field of law in the near future.Providing a much-needed contribution to the literature, this is the first book to map legal questions around renewable energy from the perspective of local governments. It will have great appeal to scholars across both law and social sciences, as well as to practitioners in governments, NGOs and law firms.Contributors: B. Egelund Olsen, S. Fanetti, S. Gaines, K. De Graaf, I. Del Guayo Castiella, L. Holstenkamp, H. Kahl, C. Maly, A. Marseille, M. Meister, G. Michanek, M. Peeters, B. Pozzo, T. Schomerus, H. ThomasTrade Review‘This is a timely contribution to the body of literature on renewable energy and the role and responsibilities of the local and regional government authorities which must – like it or not – eventually implement it across the European Union. Environmental lawyers, as well as decision makers in local governments throughout the EU will definitely need to acquire this book.’ -- The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Regional Renewable Energy Approaches: An Introduction to Exploring Legal Barriers and Opportunities Marjan Peeters, and Thomas Schomerus 2. An EU Law Perspective on the Role of Regional Authorities in The Field of Renewable Energy Marjan Peeters and Thomas Schomerus PART II SUPPORT MECHANISMS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY 3. Trade Law Constraints to Regional Renewable Energy Support Schemes Hartmut Kahl 4. Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources by Regions: The Case of The Spanish Autonomous Regions Iñigo Del Guayo Castiella 5. Transforming the German Feed in Tariff System: Legal Aspects from a Regional Perspective Henning Thomas 6. Stabilizing the Grid with Regional Virtual Power Plants Moritz Meister PART III PLANNING AND PERMITTING RENEWABLE ENERGY 7. Towards Efficient Administrative Procedures for Renewable Energy Projects? The Dutch Experience with the Crisis and Recovery Act Kars De Graaf and Albert Marseille 8 One National Wind Power Objective and 290 Self-Governing Municipalities Gabriel Michanek 9. Subnational Resistance Against Renewable Energy: The Case of Italy Stefano Fanetti and Barbara Pozzo PART IV LOCAL( FINANCIAL) ENGAGEMENT 10. Regulatory Financial Obligations for Promoting Local Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects Birgitte Egelund Olsen 11. Legal Aspects of Local Engagement – Land Planning and Citizens’ Financial Participation in Wind Energy Projects Christian Maly 12. Local Investment Schemes for Renewable Energy: A Financial Perspective Lars Holstenkamp 13. Community Wind Power and Solar: Regional Renewable Energy in the United States Sanford Gaines PART V CONCLUSION AND PROSPECT 14. Regional Renewable Energy: A String of Legal and Financial Challenges Marjan Peeters and Thomas Schomerus Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Policy is an increasingly important subject as we enter an era where environmental issues are affecting all walks of life. This informative Research Review provides a guide through the behavioral and political foundations of environmental economic policy. It discusses articles which give an in-depth view of the current economic discipline whilst also looking at research from other social and behavioral sciences. Students and scholars as well as environmental policy makers will find this an essential tool to navigate the political and behavioural issues that we have to understand in order to resolve some of the biggest political issues of our time.Table of ContentsContents: Research Review Thomas Sterner and Jessica Coria PART I BEHAVIORAL DIMENSIONS A Bounded Self–Interest 1. Roland Bénabou and Jean Tirole (2003), ‘Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation’, Review of Economic Studies, 70 (3), July, 489–520 2. Kjell Arne Brekke, Snorre Kverndokk and Karine Nyborg (2003), ‘An Economic Model of Moral Motivation’, Journal of Public Economics, 87 (9–10), September, 1967–83 3. Olof Johansson–Stenman and James Konow (2010), ‘Fair Air: Distributive Justice and Environmental Economics’, Environmental and Resource Economics, Special Issue: Behavioral Economics and the Environment, 46 (2), June, 147–66 4. Elizabeth Gsottbauer and Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh (2013), ‘Bounded Rationality and Social Interaction in Negotiating a Climate Agreement’, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 13 (3), September, 225–49 5. Matthew E. Kahn (2007), ‘Do Greens Drive Hummers or Hybrids? Environmental Ideology as a Determinant of Consumer Choice’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 54 (2), September, 129–45 6. Francisco Alpizar, Fredrik Carlsson and Olof Johansson–Stenman (2008), ‘Anonymity, Reciprocity, and Conformity: Evidence from Voluntary Contributions to a National Park in Costa Rica’, Journal of Public Economics, 92 (5–6), June, 1047–60 7. Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini and Vladas Griskevicius (2008), ‘A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels’, Journal of Consumer Research, 35 (3), October, 472–82 8. Jen Shang and Rachel Croson (2009), ‘A Field Experiment in Charitable Contribution: The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods’, Economic Journal, 119 (540), October, 1422–39 9. Hunt Allcott (2011), ‘Social Norms and Energy Conservation’, Journal of Public Economics, Special Issue: The Role of Firms in Tax Systems, 95 (9–10), October, 1082–95 10. Ernst Fehr and Andreas Leibbrandt (2011), ‘A Field Study on Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons’, Journal of Public Economics, Special Issue: The Role of Firms in Tax Systems, 95 (9–10), October, 1144–55 11. Paul J. Ferraro, Juan Jose Miranda and Michael K. Price (2011), ‘The Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-Based Policy Instruments: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment’, American Economic Review, 101 (3), May, 318–22 12. Alessandro Tavoni, Astrid Dannenberg, Giorgos Kallis, and Andreas Löschel (2011), ‘Inequality, Communication, and the Avoidance of Disastrous Climate Change in a Public Good Game’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (29), July, 11825–9 13. W. Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber and Jason Bell (2011), ‘Promoting Recycling: Private Values, Social Norms, and Economic Incentives’, American Economic Review, 101 (3), May, 65–70 14. Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn (2013), ‘Energy Conservation “Nudges” and Environmental Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment’, Journal of the European Economic Association, Themed Issue: Social Norms: Theory and Evidence from Laboratory and Field, 11 (3), June, 680–702 B Bounded Rationality 15. Larry Karp (2005), ‘Global Warming and Hyperbolic Discounting’, Journal of Public Economics, 89 (2–3), February, 261–82 16. Kjell Arne Brekke and Olof Johansson–Stenman (2008), ‘The Behavioural Economics of Climate Change’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24 (2), Summer, 280–97 17. John M. Gowdy (2008), ‘Behavioral Economics and Climate Change Policy’, Journal of Economics Behaviour and Organization, 68 (3–4), December, 632–44 18. Fredrik Carlsson (2010), ‘Design of Stated Preference Surveys: Is There More to Learn from Behavioral Economics?’, Environmental and Resource Economics, Special Issue: Behavioral Economics and the Environment, 46 (2), June, 167–77 19. Cameron Hepburn, Stephen Duncan and Antonis Papachristodoulou (2010), ‘Behavioural Economics, Hyperbolic Discounting and Environmental Policy’, Environmental and Resource Economics, 46 (2), June, 189–206 20. James K. Hammitt (2013), ‘Positive versus Normative Justifications for Benefit–Cost Analysis: Implications for Interpretation and Policy’, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 7 (2), Summer, 199–218 21. Juan Camilo Cardenas, John Stranlund and Cleve Willis (2000), ‘Local Environmental Control and Institutional Crowding–Out’, World Development, 28 (10), October, 1719–33 22. Heinz Welsch (2002), ‘Preferences over Prosperity and Pollution: Environmental Valuation based on Happiness Surveys, Kyklos, 55 (4), November, 473–94 23. John A. List (2003), ‘Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (1), February, 41–71 24. Daniel Kahneman and Robert Sugden (2005), ‘Experienced Utility as a Standard of Policy Evaluation’, Environmental and Resource Economics, Anomalies and Stated Preference Techniques, 32 (1), September, 161-81 25. Charles R. Plott and Kathryn Zeiler (2005), ‘The Willingness to Pay–Willingness to Accept Gap, the “Endowment Effect,” Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations’, American Economic Review, 95 (3), June, 530–45 26. Katrin Rehdanz and David Maddison (2005), ‘Climate and Happiness’, Ecological Economics, 52 (1), January, 111–25 27. Daniel Pichert and Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos (2008), ‘Green Defaults: Information Presentation and Pro-Environmental Behaviour’, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28 (1), March, 63–73 28 W. Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber and Jason Bell (2008), ‘Estimating Discount Rates for Environmental Quality from Utility-Based Choice Experiments’, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 37 (2–3), December, 199–220 29. Jason F. Shogren, Gregory M. Pankhurst and Prasenjit Banerjee (2010), ‘Two Cheers and a Qualm for Behavioral Environmental Economics’, Environmental and Resource Economics, Special Issue: Behavioral Economics and the Environment, 46 (2), June, 235–247 30. Kelly Sims Gallagher and Erich Muehlegger (2011), ‘Giving Green to Get Green? Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 61 (1), January, 1–15 31. Steffen Kallbekken, Stephan Kroll and Todd L. Cherry (2011), ‘Do You Not Like Pigou, or Do You Not Understand Him? Tax Aversion and Revenue Recycling in the Lab’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62 (1), July, 53–64 PART II POLITICAL DIMENSIONS A Political Economy of Environmental Policy, Institutions and Distributional Effects 32. Gert Tinggard Svendsen (1999), ‘U.S. Interest Groups Prefer Emission Trading: A New Perspective’, Public Choice, 101 (1–2), October, 109–28 33. Niels Anger, Christoph Böhringer and Andreas Lange (2015), ‘The Political Economy of Energy Tax Differentiation Across Industries: Theory and Empirical Evidence’, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 47 (1), February, 78–98 34. Per G. Fredriksson, Eric Neumayer, Richard Damania and Scott Gates (2005), ‘Environmentalism, Democracy, and Pollution Control’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 49 (2), March, 343–65 35. John A. List and Daniel M. Sturm (2006), ‘How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121 (4), November, 1249–81 36. Scott Barrett (1998), ‘Political Economy of the Kyoto Protocol’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 14 (4), December, 20–39 37. Nathaniel O. Keohane (2009), ‘Cap and Trade, Rehabilitated: Using Tradable Permits to Control U.S. Greenhouse Gases’, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3 (1), Winter, 42–62 38. Meredith Fowlie, Stephen P. Holland and Erin T. Mansur (2012), ‘What do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California’s NOx Trading Program’, American Economic Review, 102 (2), April, 965–93 39. Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Laure B. de Preux and Ulrich J. Wagner (2014), ‘Industry Compensation under Relocation Risk: A Firm–Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme’, American Economic Review, 104 (8), August, 2482–508 40. Roger D. Congleton (1992), ‘Political Institutions and Pollution Control’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 74 (3), August, 412–21 41. Dietrich Earnhart (1997), ‘Enforcement of Environmental Protection Laws under Communism and Democracy’, Journal of Law and Economics, 40 (2), October, 377–402 42. Thomas Bernauer and Vally Koubi (2013), ‘Are Bigger Governments Better Providers of Public Goods? Evidence from Air Pollution’, Public Choice, 156 (3–4), September, 593–609 B Dealing with Political Constraints in Policy Design 43. Mark Pearson (1995), ‘The Political Economy of Implementing Environmental Taxes’, International Tax and Public Finance, 2 (2), August, 357–73 44. Gebhard Kirchgässner and Friedrich Schneider (2003), ‘On the Political Economy of Environmental Policy’ Public Choice, 115 (3–4), June, 369–96 45. Robert W. Hahn (2009), ‘Greenhouse Gas Auctions and Taxes: Some Political Economy Considerations’, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3 (2), Summer, 167–88 46. Gilbert E. Metcalf (2009), ‘Designing a Carbon Tax to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions’, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3 (1), Winter, 63–83 47. Toke S. Aidt (2010), ‘Green Taxes: Refunding Rules and Lobbying’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 60 (1), July, 31–43 48. Winston Harrington, Alan J. Krupnick and Anna Alberini (2001), ‘Overcoming Public Aversion to Congestion Pricing’, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 35 (2), February, 87–105 Index

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Book SynopsisThis excellent volume provides an empirically robust, critically informed but also eminently readable interrogation of the politics and practice of sustainable development. Through a global governance and political economy lens it traverses the public and the private, and the local and the global and offers some carefully thought-through hope for a better way forward.'- Lorraine Elliott, Australian National University, Australiaand the Academic Council on the UN System'Inaction on climate change and sustainable development is not an option. But we also do not have the luxury of time and resources for wasted efforts and ineffective actions. This book cuts through the political wrangling and the policy morass to identify interventions that can make a real difference. It is a refreshing, deep dive into the relative merits of key policy instruments and market mechanisms for tackling our most intractable sustainability challenges. If you want to make informed - rather than conformed - decisions on sustainable development policy, this is the book for you. The UN Sustainable Development Goals may give us the Why and the What for creating a better future. This book gives us the How.'- Wayne Visser, author of Sustainable Frontiers and Director of Kaleidoscope Futures'An in-depth and critical interrogation of the politics of sustainable development and how policies in pursuit of this often elusive ideal are formulated, implemented and financed. Timothy Cadman and colleagues have provided an incisive tour de force that pays particular attention to private sector environmental governance as an institutional form that exists beyond governments.'- David Humphreys, The Open University, UKSince the Rio 'Earth' Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as emissions trading, payments for ecosystem services and timber certification have become the main mechanisms for financing the sustainable management of the earth's natural resources. Yet how effective are they - and do they help the planet and developing countries, or merely uphold the economic status quo? This book investigates these important questions.Providing a comprehensive analysis and the latest research on sustainable development, the authors compare the divergent approaches to emissions trading. Included is a detailed investigation into illegal logging and the effectiveness of policy responses, with an evaluation of different forest certification schemes. Biodiversity offsets and environmental payments are also explored. Integral to the book are interviews and opinions of the key stakeholders in the political economy of sustainable development.This uniquely comprehensive analysis of the governance quality of different sustainable development mechanisms, unprecedented in its panorama of comparative case studies, is essential reading for all those in the policy, academic and non-governmental communities.Trade Review‘This is a well thought-out and well- written book. The authors display mastery of the subject and bring in invaluable insights into climate change and forest protection. The format for the chapters makes for easy reading. Each chapter gives a history and descriptive background of the subject it is dealing with, then the analyses of the subject itself, followed by a discussion of the sources of finance, a detailed table on the quality of governance, then a report on empirical study and commentary on the results. Analysis of the survey and conclusions finish the chapter. This makes the work very practical and helpful. It is indispensable material for policy makers and very important sourcebook for researchers and NGOs.’ -- European Energy and Environmental Law Review‘The Political Economy of Sustainable Development: Policy Instruments and Market Mechanisms provides sweeping coverage of three crucial issues and an original approach to studying them. It is a complex and ambitious effort by a diverse team of researchers, providing many insights into what's been tried and what might be tried to address climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss. With this coverage, the book or sections of it, could be useful for teaching applications or for policy making, and certainly will be so for policy research.’ -- J. Timmons Roberts, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis‘Cadman and his co-authors have collected and employed data collected from over 100 surveys and 35 in-depth interviews of sustainable development experts, to bring another dimension to their comprehensive analysis of instruments employed to promote sustainable development.’ -- Transnational Environmental Law‘This excellent volume provides an empirically robust, critically informed but also eminently readable interrogation of the politics and practice of sustainable development. Through a global governance and political economy lens it traverses the public and the private, and the local and the global and offers some carefully thought-through hope for a better way forward.’ -- Lorraine Elliott, Australian National University, Australiaand the Academic Council on the UN System‘Inaction on climate change and sustainable development is not an option. But we also do not have the luxury of time and resources for wasted efforts and ineffective actions. This book cuts through the political wrangling and the policy morass to identify interventions that can make a real difference. It is a refreshing, deep dive into the relative merits of key policy instruments and market mechanisms for tackling our most intractable sustainability challenges. If you want to make informed – rather than conformed – decisions on sustainable development policy, this is the book for you. The UN Sustainable Development Goals may give us the Why and the What for creating a better future. This book gives us the How.’ -- Wayne Visser, author of Sustainable Frontiers and Director of Kaleidoscope Futures‘An in-depth and critical interrogation of the politics of sustainable development and how policies in pursuit of this often elusive ideal are formulated, implemented and financed. Timothy Cadman and colleagues have provided an incisive tour de force that pays particular attention to private sector environmental governance as an institutional form that exists beyond governments.’ -- David Humphreys, The Open University, UK‘Overall, this is a well-written book by Timothy Cadman and his colleagues which contributes to scholarship on global environmental management with specific reference to the linkage between environmental protection and economic development. The authors deployed a scientific research methodology to determine the utility and effectiveness of different market-based policy instruments which were derived from multilateral agreements and conventions to manage the resources of the planet for environmental protection and sustainable development.' -- Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The Political Economy of Sustainable Development 1. Protection of the Atmosphere – CDM and REDD+ 2. Combating Deforestation I – FSC and PEFC 3. Combating Deforestation II – FLEGT 4. Conservation of Biological Diversity – PES and BOM 5. Comparative Analysis Conclusion Recommendations Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the latest research from leading scholars on the international political economy of energy and resources. Highlighting the important conceptual and empirical themes, the chapters study all levels of governance, from global to local, and explore the wide range of issues emerging in a changing political and economic environment. The original contributions analyse energy as a highly complex, interconnected policy area, including how energy markets and regimes are constituted and the governance institutions that are being designed to challenge existing establishments. A number of contributors focus on intersections between energy and other policy fields or sectors, or nexes. These include the climate change, energy and low carbon transitions nexus; the food, water and forestry nexus; the energy, resources and development nexus, and the global?national?local nexus in energy. Significantly, this Handbook ties the contributions together by exploring opportunities for sustainable transitions and avoiding resource scarcity whilst taking other social needs, such as development, into account.This Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and students of international political economy, governance and development studies as it covers: the environment, development, human rights, global production, energy transitions and energy security.Contributors include: L. Baker, T. Boersma, J. Britton, E. Brutschin, J. Burton, A.A. Camba, R. Falkner, T. Foxon, C. Fraune, A. Goldthau, D. Gritsenko, A. Hira, R. Hiteva, L. Hughes, J. Jewell, M.F. Keating, C. Kuzemko, A. Lawrence, F. Lira, A. Losz, K. Lovell, H.E.S. Nesadurai, M. Nilsson, S. Onder, R. Quitzow, S. Raszewski, W.B. Renfro, J. Sharples, N. Sitter, M. Skalamera, B.K. Sovacool, C. Strambo, J. WilsonTrade Review'In the age of the Sustainable Development Goals, we can no longer afford to view energy in isolation from other resource ecologies, politics and economies. Covering a wide range of regions and sectors over 26 chapters, this Handbook provides a comprehensive and invaluable review of energy as a complex and contested terrain that intersects and overlaps with all areas of global politics in ways that can and should inform our understanding of international political economy. I highly recommend it.'> --Peter Newell, University of Sussex, UK'Edward Elgar's Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series has been providing an ambitious resource to scholars and teachers of IPE for over two decades now, and this volume maintains this fine tradition. This is a wide-ranging and timely summation of where and how energy and natural resources affect our common global political economy. Get your library to order it so you too can use it now!' --Randall Germain, Carleton University, Canada'This Handbook is a highly valuable addition to recent scholarly advancement into the political economy of energy. It stands out by its innovative perspective of combining the theoretical approaches of international political economy and global public policy for the purpose of identifying nexus thinking - the analysis of the intersection between energy and other policy sectors. From this, the book provides a myriad of empirical studies over 26 chapters which really brings home the message of how manifold and multi-faceted the present political economy of energy has become.' --Dag Harald Claes, University of Oslo, NorwayTable of ContentsContents: 1. Nexus-thinking in International Political Economy: What energy and natural resource scholarship can offer international political economy Caroline Kuzemko, Michael F. Keating and Andreas Goldthau Part I Overviews, Theories and Concepts 2. Conceptualizing the Energy Nexus of Global Public Policy and International Political Economy Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter 3. Advancing the International Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation: Political Ecology, Political Economy and Social Justice Benjamin K. Sovacool 4. The Resource Nationalist Challenge to Global Energy Governance Jeffrey D. Wilson 5. A Gendered Perspective on Energy Transformation Processes Cornelia Fraune 6. Climate Change, International Political Economy and Global Energy Policy Robert Falkner Part II Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon Transitions 7. The Politics of Procurement and the Low-Carbon Transition in South Africa Lucy Baker and Jesse Burton 8. The Energy Union: A coherent policy package? Claudia Strambo and Måns Nilsson 9. The Political Economy of Low Carbon Infrastructure in the UK Ralitsa Hiteva, Tim Foxon and Katherine Lovell 10. The New International Political Economy of Natural Gas Tim Boersma and Akos Losz 11. Europe’s Largest Natural Gas Producer in an Era of Climate Change: Gazprom Jack D. Sharples 12. Energy Development in the Arctic: Resource Colonialism Revisited Daria Gritsenko Part III Energy, Resources and Development 13. Transnational Private Regulation and the Global Governance of Palm Oil Sustainability: From Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Certification to the Palm Oil Innovation Group/No-Deforestation Standard Helen E. S. Nesadurai 14. International Political Economy and the Global Governance of Hydroelectric Dams Michael F. Keating 15. Managing the Use of Natural Resources: How Ecosystem Accounts Helped in the Philippines Stefanie Onder 16. How Can Climate Justice and Energy Justice Be Reconciled? Andrew Lawrence 17. The Politics of Resistance in the Neoliberal Mining Regime Alvin A. Camba 18. Food for Fuels? Examining the Issue of Trade-Offs between Energy and Food Anil Hira 19. Emerging Economies and Energy: The Case of Turkey Slawomir Raszewski Part IV Scale: Transnational, National, Local 20. Low-Carbon Technologies, National Innovation Systems, and Global Production Networks: The State of Play Llewelyn Hughes and Rainer Quitzow 21. An International Political Economy of Climate Change Benchmarking: Energy Standard Setting, Responses and Challenges Caroline Kuzemko 22. Energy Trends, Political Economy, and International Order: The United States and the People’s Republic Wesley B. Renfro 23. International Political Economy of Nuclear Energy Elina Brutschin and Jessica Jewell 24. The Domestic Factor in the International Political Economy of Eurasian Gas Trade Morena Skalamera 25. Between Global Aspirations and Domestic Imperatives: The Case of Brazil Flavio Lira 26. Localising Energy: Heat Networks and Municipal Governance Jessica Britton Index

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Book SynopsisThe International Handbook on Social Policy and the Environment reviews debates concerning poverty, inequalities, social distribution, social rights, taxation, healthcare, education, water and energy policies to examine the relevance and importance of climate change to social policies and welfare reform.Environmental change is central to the global social policy challenges of the twenty-first century. This comprehensive Handbook brings together leading experts from around the world to address the most important questions and issues we face. How should welfare states adapt to environmental change? To what extent are the ecological and social policy agendas compatible? Must we contemplate radical reforms to the principles and organisation of welfare services? Combining cutting-edge theory and data in an interdisciplinary approach, this Handbook both summarizes existing developments and suggests how debates and research must develop in the future.This book will appeal to taught postgraduates, doctoral students and academics across the policy and social sciences. It will also be of interest to non-academic researchers, practitioners and environmental activists. With case studies drawn from many countries including Australia, Japan, Germany, Scandinavia, Canada, Latin America and the UK, the Handbook will provide an important resource for years to come.Contributors: N. Bardsley, K. Bell, E.L Boasson, M. Boström, W. Bretschneider, M. Briguglio, S. Brooks-Wilson, M. Brown, M. Büchs, I. Bugeja, J. Cherni, H. Dean, T. Fitzpatrick, E. Gawel, K. Hussey, Y. Kameyama, J.L. MacArthur, H.O. Nielsen, A.B. Pedersen, A. Schaffrin, S.V. Schnepf, C. Snell, J. WettestadTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Tony Fitzpatrick PART I: JUSTICE AND POVERTY 1. The New Social Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change André Schaffrin 2. Unequal Emissions – Unequal Policy Impacts: How Do Different Areas of CO2 Emissions Compare? Milena Büchs, Nicholas Bardsley and Sylke V. Schnepf 3. An Ecosocial Understanding of Poverty Tony Fitzpatrick PART II: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS 4. The Affordability of Water and Energy Pricing – the Case of Germany Erik Gawel and Wolfgang Bretschneider 5. Green Taxes in Scandinavia: Do they Contribute to (in)equality? Anders Branth Pedersen and Helle Ørsted Nielsen 6. ENGO Activism in the EU: The G10, Climate Change and Social Policy Michael Briguglio, Maria Brown and Ian Bugeja 7. Environmental Health Costs of Economic Globalization Policies in Latin America Judith Cherni 8. Environmental and Social Policies in Japan Yasuko Kameyama 9. Degrowth for Sustainability, Equality and Poverty Reduction: Some lessons from Cuba Karen Bell 10. Sustainability and the Social Economy in Canada: From Resource Reliance to Resilience? Julie L. MacArthur 11. Using Markets to Achieve Environmental Ends: Reconciling Social-equity Issues in Contemporary Water Policy in Australia Karen Hussey PART III: MAKING AND IMPLEMENTING 12. The Interaction of EU Climate Policies: Mechanisms and Lessons Elin Lerum Boasson and Jørgen Wettestad 13. Sustainable Development by the Multi-stakeholder Model? Magnus Boström 14. Education for Sustainable Development and Welfare Reform: A Very British Case Study? Carolyn Snell and Sarah Brooks-Wilson PART IV: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS 15. Social Rights and Natural Resources Hartley Dean 16. The Nature of Nature: Aristotle vs. Epicurus Tony Fitzpatrick Index

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume set contains a representative selection of leading articles by outstanding scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in the field of international environmental law (IEL). Professor Anton has organized the contributions along three major lines: firstly, the papers explore the challenge of transnational environmental problems and the nature of IEL, including fundamental principles and concepts, actors, and compliance and enforcement. Secondly, the development and application of IEL in the context of specific regimes is explored, including atmosphere, oceans, and hazardous substances. Finally, the volumes examine how IEL interacts with other international legal regimes, including international trade and human rights. All the contributions reflect a broad diversity of views and cover the most important key areas currently debated in IEL.Alongside an original introduction by the editor, this collection is a valuable tool for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students with an interest in international environmental law.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Donald K. Anton PART I AN OVERVIEW OF THE CHALLENGE AND EMERGENCE OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESPONSES 1. Manfred Lachs (1990), ‘The Challenge of the Environment’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 39, 663–69 2. Oscar Schachter (1991), ‘The Emergence of International Environmental Law’, Journal of International Affairs, 44, 457–93 3. Edith Brown Weiss (1993), ‘International Environmental Law: Contemporary Issues and the Emergence of a New World Order’, Georgetown Law Journal, 81, 675–710 4. Timo Koivurova (2014), ‘Basic Issues in International Environmental Law’, in Introduction to International Environmental Law, Chapter 1, 8–26 (do not include pictures or text boxes) PART II UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS 5. Rüdiger Wolfrum (1990), ‘Purposes and Principles of International Environmental Law’, 33, 308–30 6. Philippe Sands & Jacqueline Peel (with Adriana Fabra & Ruth MacKenzie) (2012), ‘General Principles and Rules’, in Principles of International Environmental Law, 3rd ed, Chapter 6, 187–237 PART III NORMATIVITY 7. Malgosia A. Fitzmaurice (2001), ‘International Environmental Law: Sources, Formation and Kinds of Legal Rules’, in International Protection of the Environment, Chapter II, 96–149 8. Pierre-Marie Dupuy (2007), ‘Formation of Customary International Law and General Principles’, in The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, Chapter 19, 449–65 (do not include recommended reading) 9. Jutta Brunnée (2002), ‘Coping with Consent: Law-Making under Multilateral Environmental Agreements’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 15, 1–52 10. Robin R. Churchill and Geir Ulfstein (2000), ‘Autonomous Institutional Arrangements in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Little-Noticed Phenomenon in International Law’, American Journal of International Law, 94 (4), 623–59 11. Naomi Roht-Arriaza (1995), ‘Shifting the Point of Regulation: The International Organization for Standardization and Global Lawmaking on Trade and the Environment’, Ecology Law Quarterly, 22, 479–539 PART IV ACTORS, INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE 12. Kal Raustiala, (1997) ‘States, NGOs, and International Institutions’ International Studies Quarterly, 41, 719–40 13. Gerhard Loibl (2001), ‘The Role of International Organisations in International Law-Making International Environmental Negotiations - An Empirical Study’ Non-State Actors and International Law 1, 41–66 14. Steven R. Ratner (2001), ‘Corporations and Human Rights: A Theory of Legal Responsibility’, Yale Law Journal 111, 443–545 15. Daniel C. Esty and Maria H. Ivanova, (2002) ‘Revitalizing Global Environmental Governance: A Function-Driven Approach, in Global Environmental Governance: Options and Opportunities (Daniel C. Esty & Maria H. Ivanova, eds.) chap 10, 181–203 16. Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder and David Hunter (2002), ‘Democratizing Multilateral Development Banks’ in The New “Public”: The Globalization of Public Participation, 151–64 17. Ellen Hey (2003), ‘Sustainable Development, Normative Development and the Legitimacy of Decision Making’ Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 24, 3–53 PART V ISSUE AREAS AND SUBSTANTIVE LAW 18. Martti Koskenniemi (1992), ‘Breach of Treaty or Non-Compliance? Reflections on the Enforcement of the Montreal Protocol’, Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 3, 123¬–62 19. Peter H. Sand (1996), ‘Institution-Building to Assist Compliance with International Environmental Law: Perspectives’ Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 56, 774–95 20. Alexander Gillespie (2003), ‘Implementation and Compliance Concerns in International Environmental Law: The State of the Art Within Three International Regimes’ New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law 7, 53–84 21. Carsten Helm & Detlef Sprinz, (2000) ‘Measuring the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes’ Journal of Conflict Resolution 44, 630–52 22. Ronald B. Mitchell, (2002) ‘A Quantitative Approach to Evaluating International Environmental Regimes’ Global Environmental Politics 2, 58–83 Volume II Contents: Introduction An introduction by the editors appears in Volume I PART I ISSUE AREAS AND SUBSTANTIVE LAW A Atmosphere 1. Phoebe Okowa (2006), ‘The Legacy of Trail Smelter in the Field of Transboundary Air Pollution’, in Rebecca M. Bratspies and Russell A. Miller (eds), Transboundary Harm in International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration, Chapter 16, 195–208 2. David D. Caron (1991), ‘Protection of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer and the Structure of International Environmental Lawmaking’, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 14, 755–80 3. Daniel Bodansky (2011), ‘A Tale of Two Architectures: The Once and Future U.N. Climate Change Regime’, Arizona State Law Journal, 43, 697–712 B The Oceans 4. Moira L. McConnell and Edgar Gold ( ), ‘The Modern Law of the Sea: Framework for Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment’, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 23, 83–105 5. Jonathan I. Charney (1994), ‘The Marine Environment and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea’, International Lawyer, 28, 879–902 6. Lee Kimball (2003), ‘International Ocean Governance’, 7–84 7. David Freestone, (2012) ‘International Governance, Responsibility and Management of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction’ International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 27, 191–204 C Biodiversity 8. Michael J. Glennon, (1990) ‘Has International Law Failed the Elephant’ (1990) American Journal of International Law 84, 1–43 9. Catherine Tinker (1995), ‘A “New Breed” of Treaty: The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity’, Pace Environmental Law Review, 12, 191–218 10. David R. Downes (1993), ‘New Diplomacy for the Biodiversity Trade: Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and Intellectual Property in the Convention on Biological Diversity’, Touro Journal of Transnational Law, 4, 1–46 11. Erik J. Molenaar, (2007) ‘Managing Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction’ International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 22, 89–124 12. Evanson Chege Kamau, Bevis Fedder and Gerd Winter (2010), ‘Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing: What is New and What are the Implications for Provider and User Countries and the Scientific Community’, Law, Environment and Development Journal, 6, 246–62 D Hazardous Substances and Technologies 13. Katharina Kummer, (1992) ‘The International Regulation of Transboundary Traffic in Hazardous Wastes: The 1989 Basel Convention’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly 41, 530–62 14. Richard W. Emory, Jr., (2001) ‘Probing the Protections of the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent’, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 12, 47–70 15. Joel Mintz, (2001) ‘Two Cheers for Global POPs: A Summary and Assessment of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants’, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, 14 16. Henrik Selin, (2014) ‘Global Environmental Law and Treaty-Making on Hazardous Substances: The Minamata Convention and Mercury Abatement’ Global Environmental Politics 14, 1–19 E Fresh Water 17. Stephen McCaffrey, (1994) ‘The Law of International Watercourses: Present Problems, Future Trends’ in A Law for the Environment, Essays in Honour of Wolfgang E. Burhenne, 113–35 18. John Scanlon & Alejandro Iza, (2003) ‘International Legal Foundations for Environmental Flows’ Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 14, 81–100 19. Patricia Wouters, Sergei Vinogradov & Bjørn-Oliver Magsig, (2008) ‘Water Security, Hydrosolidarity, and International Law: A River Runs Through It …’ Yearbook of International Enviornmental Law 19, 97–134 F The Polar Regions 20. Donald R. Rothwell, (2000) ‘Polar Environmental Protection and International Law: The 1991 Antarctic Protocol’ European Journal of International Law 11, 591–614 21. Kees Bastmeijer and Steven Hendel (2009), ‘The Role of the Protected Area Concept in Protecting the World' Largest Natural Reserve: Antarctica, Utrecht Law Review 5, 61–79 22. Timo Koivurova, (2003) ‘The Importance of International Environmental Law in the Arctic’ Finnish Yearbook of International Law 14, 341–54 23. Olav Schram Stokke, (2009) ‘Protecting the Arctic Environment: The Interplay of Global and Regional Regimes’ Yearbook of Polar Law 1, 349–70 PART II REGIME INTERACTION A Trade, Investment and the Environment 24. Thomas J. Schoenbaum, (1997) ‘International Trade and Protection of the Environment: The Continuing Search for Reconciliation’ American Journal of International Law 91, 268–313 25. Konrad von Moltke, (2002) ‘International Investment and Sustainability: Options for Regime Formation’ in The Earthscan Reader on International Trade and Sustainable Development (Kevin Gallagher & Jacob Werksman, eds.) chap 15, 345–69 B Human Rights and the Environment 26. Dinah Shelton, (2001) ‘Environmental Rights’ in Peoples’ Rights (Philip Alston, ed.) chap 6, 189–258 27. John H. Knox, (2009) ‘Climate Change and Human Rights Law’ Virginia Journal of International Law, 50, 163–218 C Use of Force and the Environment 28. Richard Falk, (1992) ‘The Environmental Law of War: An Introduction’ in Environmental Protection and the Law of War: A ‘Fifth Geneva’ Convention on the Protection of the Environment in Time of Armed Conflict chap 5, 78–95 29. Christopher D. Stone, (2000) ‘The Environment in Wartime: An Overview’ in The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives (Jay E. Austin & Carl E. Bruch, eds.) chap 2, 16–38 Index

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Book SynopsisFor some time now, environmental enforcement networks have been part of the very fabric of environmental law. Yet, academic research has somewhat neglected them. This book is a game-changer. It shows just how 'smart' enforcement networks have become, and indeed need to be, in the never-ending struggle for effectiveness of environmental protection: they operate horizontally or vertically, locally and globally, top-down and bottom-up, often through citizens engagement and always in search for greater effectiveness. The book's contributions from a wide range of environmental scholars and professionals give the impression of a fascinating new development, i.e. the increasing role of civil society in global environmental governance.'- Klaus Bosselmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand'This book is a fascinating and original study of a little known phenomenon of environmental enforcement networks. In 26 chapters of this volume the reader is presented with ample examples of environmental enforcement networks in the world. The editors of this book achieved a great success in presenting this question in almost all continents. The contributing authors of this book, theorists and practitioners, present an in-depth overview of the role of networks in compliance with environmental obligations. It is a very well-informed and honest book, from which a very complex picture of enforcement networks emerges. This volume is one of the most important and indispensable contributions to understanding the problem of the enforcement of environmental law in general.'- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London, UKCompliance and enforcement is a fundamental issue within environmental law. But despite its pertinence, it is an area that has been neglected in academic research. Addressing this gap, this timely book considers the circumstances under which networking can increase the effectiveness of environmental enforcement.Presenting a general theory of how and why networking can increase the effectiveness of environmental enforcement, expert contributors ascertain the potential benefits of environmental enforcement networks. Specific criteria and benchmarks are provided, indicating under which circumstances networking may increase the competency of environmental enforcement. The book explores theoretical and empirical discussions of the benefits of networks, offering a discerning assessment of enforcement networks' influence on environmental protection. It also examines issue based examples of networks, such as networks dealing with transboundary waste or wildlife. In addition to this, environmental enforcement in particular areas, such as the US, Europe, Australia or Africa, is considered. Academics in environmental law and policy will benefit from this thorough overview of an important phenomenon. In addition, practitioners and policy makers will appreciate the valuable insights presented.Contributors include: M. Angelov, B. Araba Adjei, G. Baldwin, K. Bergamini, S.E. Bromm, L. Cashman, T. Circelli, M. De Bree, H. De Haas, P. De Smedt, M. Faure, W. Fawcett, D. Fest Grabiel, J. Gemmell, J. Gerardu, F. Geysels, R.G. Heiss, E. Janssen, E.B. Kasimbazi, M. Koparova, D. Kopsick, L. Lavrysen, J. Lehane, X. Lu, G. Lubieniecki, K. Markowitz, P. Meerman, L. Mensah, J.C. Monckeberg, G. Opondo, L. Paddock, C. Pérez, G. Pink, H. Qin, H. Ruessink, Z. Sava an, A. Stas, G.M. Vagliasindi, E. Van Asch, J. Yang, D. ZaelkeTrade Review‘For some time now, environmental enforcement networks have been part of the very fabric of environmental law. Yet, academic research has somewhat neglected them. This book is a game-changer. It shows just how “smart” enforcement networks have become, and indeed need to be, in the never-ending struggle for effectiveness of environmental protection: they operate horizontally or vertically, locally and globally, top-down and bottom-up, often through citizens engagement and always in search for greater effectiveness. The book’s contributions from a wide range of environmental scholars and professionals give the impression of a fascinating new development, i.e. the increasing role of civil society in global environmental governance.’ -- Klaus Bosselmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand‘This book is a fascinating and original study of a little known phenomenon of environmental enforcement networks. In 26 chapters of this volume the reader is presented with ample examples of environmental enforcement networks in the world. The editors of this book achieved a great success in presenting this question in almost all continents. The contributing authors of this book, theorists and practitioners, present an in–depth overview of the role of networks in compliance with environmental obligations. It is a very well-informed and honest book, from which a very complex picture of enforcement networks emerges. This volume is one of the most important and indispensable contributions to understanding the problem of the enforcement of environmental law in general.’ -- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London, UK‘This book describes and analyses the various ways in which networking can increase the effectiveness of environmental enforcement both nationally and internationally and the circumstances under which networks are most likely to be effective. In doing so it provides a valuable addition to the academic literature on the effectiveness of environmental enforcement, particularly where it provides multi-disciplinary and comparative perspectives.’ -- Neil Gunningham, Australian National University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I GENERAL THEORY 1. Environmental Enforcement Networks: Theory, Practice and Potential Grant Pink 2. Better Regulation, Enforcement and Networking: Co-Dependency for the Global Environment Campbell Gemmell 3. Connecting Cultures: Towards Sustainable Networking: Key Success Factors for Environmental Cooperation Across Cultures Esther Janssen 4. The Role of Networks in Ensuring Compliance and Strengthening Coordination: A Comparative Analysis on INECE, ECENA, RENA and REC Turkey Zerrin Savaşan 5. Evaluating and Assessing Environmental Enforcement Networks: Through Use of the Network Evaluation Matrix Grant Pink and James Lehane PART II BENEFITS OF NETWORKS 6. Towards a Critical Analysis of Environmental Enforcement Networks James Lehane 7. Environmental Enforcement Networks: Their ‘Value Proposition’ During Times of Reducing Resources and Budgets Grant Pink 8. Environmental Regulation and Enforcement Networks Operating in Tandem: A Very Effective Vehicle for Driving Efficiencies and Facilitating Knowledge Exchange and Transfer Campbell Gemmell and Tony Circelli 9. Countering Transnational Organized Wildlife Crime: Regional and Sub-Regional Initiatives, Global Responses and the Need for More Effective Coordination Edward Van Asch 10. Can Supervision and Enforcement Networks Make Self-Regulation Work? Martin De Bree, Han De Haas and Paul Meerman Part III THEMATIC NETWORKS 11. The Lusaka Agreement Task Force as a Mechanism for Enforcement Against Wildlife Crime Emmanuel B. Kasimbazi 12. Huntington Geographic Enforcement/Compliance Initiative: A Case Study in Multi-Organisation Networking and Collaboration Eugène Lubieniecki 13. The European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment Luc Lavrysen 14. The Seaport Environmental Security Network: Facilitating International Enforcement Collaboration to Prevent Illegal Hazardous Waste Shipments Through Ports Danielle F. Grabiel, Robert George Heiss, Meradith Koparova, Deborah Kopsick and Henk Ruessink PART IV HORIZONTAL NETWORKS 15. North American Working Group on Environmental Enforcement and Compliance Cooperation: Moving from Capacity Building to Operational Activities Deborah Kopsick and Susan Elizabeth Bromm 16. Informal Environmental Networking: The EPA Network Example William Fawcett 17. Developing and Sustaining Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Networks: Lessons Learned from the International Network on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Jo Gerardu, Meredith Koparova, Kenneth Markowitz, Durwood Zaelke and Gunnar Baldwin, Jr 18. Environmental Inspections and Environmental Compliance Assurance Networks in the Context of European Union Environment Policy Miroslav Angelov and Liam Cashman 19. Success and Failure Factors in Developing Effective Environmental Enforcement Networks: The Case of the East African Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Gerphas Opondo PART V VERTICAL NETWORKS 20. Regional Environmental Enforcement Networks in the United States LeRoy Paddock 21. Ghana’s Efforts at Environmental Enforcement Networks; Legal and Institutional Structures Bernadette Araba Adjei and Larsey Mensah 22. Effective Networking, Formal versus Substantial Compliance, Conflicting Powers: Strength and Weakness of Environmental Criminal Provisions Enforcement Networks In Italy Grazia Maria Vagliasindi 23. Domestic Environmental Enforcement Networks: The Practice of China Xinyuan Lu, Hu Qin and Jun Yang 24. Environmental Enforcement Networking Efforts in Chile: Lessons Learnt and Challenges Ahead Juan Carlos Monckeberg, Kay Bergamini and Cristian Pérez 25. Enforcement of Environmental Legislation by the Belgian Police Frans Geysels 26. The Flemish High Council of Environmental Enforcement: The Role of an Environmental Enforcement Network in a New Coordinated Environmental Enforcement Landscape Within the Flemish Region, 2009-2014. Michael Faure and An Stas Concluding And Comparative Remarks Michael Faure, An Stas and Peter De Smedt Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by one of the most prolific and provocative thinkers of our time, Klaus Bosselmann's latest book is set to reaffirm his rank among the leading environmental law scholars in the world. Bosselmann cogently argues that we live in deeply troubling times, characterized as they are by unprecedented socio-ecological upheaval. His vision is of a global governance order that is centred on the Earth as an integrated whole and that seeks to protect the Earth's ecological integrity, especially insofar as the global commons are concerned. This book is an original, timely and very welcome (juridical) addition to the growing body of Earth system governance literature.'- Louis J. Kotzé, North-West University, South Africa, University of Lincoln, UK and Deputy-Director of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment'Klaus Bosselmann provides a subtle and masterful overview of the limits of contemporary law and nation-state governance in solving our planetary ecological catastrophes. Even better, he offers a range of practical and attractive alternatives, most notably the commons and new forms of trusteeship. We must promptly adopt these new/old legal forms in order to overcome compulsive economic growth and the delusions of national sovereignty, and to honor our actual dependence on the more-than-human world. This book points the way forward.'- David Bollier, author of Think Like a Commoner and cofounder of the Commons Strategies Group'This book takes a fresh look at governance of the environment, from the long-neglected perspective of international trusteeship: What if sovereign states were not the legal 'owners' of our planet's common natural resources, but mere 'trustees' on behalf of people (present and future) as the ultimate beneficiaries? Thoroughly documented and brilliantly pleaded, Bosselmann's work opens a whole new research agenda on how to hold governments and international organizations accountable to citizens in an age of global environmental democracy.'- Peter H. Sand, University of Munich, GermanyThe predicament of uncontrolled growth in a finite world puts the global commons - such as oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere - at risk. So far, states have not found the means to protect what, essentially, is outside their jurisdiction. However, the jurisprudence of international law has matured to a point that makes global governance beyond state-negotiated compromises both possible and desirable. This book makes an ambitious, yet well-researched and convincing, case for trusteeship governance.Earth Governance shows how the United Nations, together with states, can draw from their own traditions to develop new, effective regimes of environmental trusteeship. Klaus Bosselmann argues that the integrity of the earth's ecological system depends on institutional reform, and that only an ethic of stewardship and trusteeship will create the institutions, laws and policies powerful enough to reclaim and protect the global commons.This comprehensive exploration of environmental governance will appeal to scholars and students of environmental law, and international law and relations, as well as to UN and government officials and policymakers.Trade Review‘Written by one of the most prolific and provocative thinkers of our time, Klaus Bosselmann’s latest book is set to reaffirm his rank among the leading environmental law scholars in the world. Bosselmann cogently argues that we live in deeply troubling times, characterized as they are by unprecedented socio-ecological upheaval. His vision is of a global governance order that is centred on the Earth as an integrated whole and that seeks to protect the Earth’s ecological integrity, especially insofar as the global commons are concerned. This book is an original, timely and very welcome (juridical) addition to the growing body of Earth system governance literature.’ -- Louis J. Kotzé, North-West University, South Africa, University of Lincoln, UK and Deputy-Director of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment‘Klaus Bosselmann provides a subtle and masterful overview of the limits of contemporary law and nation-state governance in solving our planetary ecological catastrophes. Even better, he offers a range of practical and attractive alternatives, most notably the commons and new forms of trusteeship. We must promptly adopt these new/old legal forms in order to overcome compulsive economic growth and the delusions of national sovereignty, and to honor our actual dependence on the more-than-human world. This book points the way forward.’ -- David Bollier, author of Think Like a Commoner and cofounder of the Commons Strategies Group‘This book takes a fresh look at governance of the environment, from the long-neglected perspective of international trusteeship: What if sovereign states were not the legal “owners” of our planet’s common natural resources, but mere “trustees” on behalf of people (present and future) as the ultimate beneficiaries? Thoroughly documented and brilliantly pleaded, Bosselmann’s work opens a whole new research agenda on how to hold governments and international organizations accountable to citizens in an age of global environmental democracy.’ -- Peter H. Sand, University of Munich, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. World at a Tipping Point 2. Framing Earth Governance 3. Commons 4. The Global Commons 5. Trusteeship 6. State as Environmental Trustee 7. Trusteeship and the United Nations 8. Institutionalizing Trusteeship for the Global Commons Conclusion: There is Another Way Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWe live on an increasingly human-dominated planet. Our impact on the Earth has become so huge that researchers now suggest that it merits its own geological epoch - the 'Anthropocene' - the age of humans. Combining theory development and case studies of 'planetary boundaries', emerging infectious diseases, financial markets and geoengineering, this groundbreaking book explores the 'Anthropocene Gap' otherwise known as society's current failure to address the most profound environmental challenges of our times.What are the political and institutional implications of this new epoch? And what are some novel ways to analyze the complicated interplay between institutions, Earth system complexity and technology? This book offers one of the first explorations of political and institutional dimensions of the Anthropocene concept by providing a novel combination of institutional analysis along with insights from Earth system sciences. It provides an exploration of the role of technology for global environmental governance and defines a new agenda for political science analysis in the Anthropocene.Offering the first summary of the planetary boundaries debate, this cutting edge book will be of great interest to researchers concerned in the interplay between politics, technology, and global environmental change, and those interested in the debate surrounding the Anthropocene and 'planetary boundaries'.Contents: Foreword. The 'Anthropocene Gap' 1. Planetary Terra Incognita 2. Governance and Complexity 3. Earth System Complexity 4. Epidemics and Supernetworks 5. Engineering the Planet 6. Financial Markets, Robots and Ecosystems 7. Bridging the 'Anthropocene Gap' Epilogue: Back to London via the Baltic Sea References IndexTrade Review'Victor Galaz opens a new pathway, critically needed, yet breathtaking. In a thoughtful and inspirational manner, he takes on the challenge of how humanity is to navigate the unprecedented scale, speed and complexity of the Anthropocene. The focus is on the interplay between rapid nonlinear global environmental change and emerging technologies, like engineering the planet, tipping points, epidemic surprise or increased connectivity between financial markets, commodity markets, ecosystem services and underlying technologies. In a truly novel way, Galaz moves governance research to the very front of sustainability science and resilience thinking Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics is indeed a groundbreaking contribution, highly recommended!' --Carl Folke, Stockholm University, Sweden'The idea of the Anthropocene highlights urgent environmental, health and economic challenges facing humanity. This book shows clearly why shifts in power and governance must be core to our responses, but also that new, creative, multi-scale approaches are needed. Candid, reflective and richly-illustrated, this is a must-read contribution to the debate of our age about how to build sustainable futures.' --Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK'Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics should top the reading list for anyone interested in exploring the nature of governance and the role of technology in this new human-dominated epoch known as the Anthropocene. Combining insights from complexity, innovation and institutional design, Galaz brings cutting edge research to enlighten the current challenges facing humankind. This is a must read.' --Michael Schoon, Arizona State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword. The ‘Anthropocene Gap’ 1. Planetary Terra Incognita 2. Governance and Complexity 3. Earth System Complexity 4. Epidemics and Supernetworks 5. Engineering the Planet 6. Financial Markets, Robots and Ecosystems 7. Bridging the ‘Anthropocene Gap’ Epilogue: Back to London via the Baltic Sea References Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book explores why implementation of environmental law is too often ineffective in achieving effective environmental governance. It provides careful analysis and innovative proposals to help improve the practical effectiveness of legal instruments for environmental governance.A growing number of organisations including the IUCN, UNEP and the Organisation of American States have voiced concerns that legal instruments that were developed to pursue more convincing environmental governance over the last 40 years are not creating a sufficiently potent system of environmental governance. In response to this challenge, this timely book explores how to bridge the significant implementation gap between the objectives of environmental law and the real-world outcomes of its application. Expert contributors discuss different forms of law, from international conventions down to inter-parties agreements, and non-government codes and standards. The overarching discussion highlights the diverse factors that impact upon implementing environmental law in practice, and considers the limitations and opportunities for constructive innovation in legal governance.This book is a comprehensive reference point for scholars and policy-makers, shedding light on how to achieve significant improvements in the effective application of environmental law.Contributors: R. Bartel, A.K. Butzel, J. de L. De Cendra, D. Craig, M. Doelle, J. Gooch, W. Gumley, C. Holley, T. Howard, A. Kennedy, W. Lahey, A. Lawson, E. Lees, P. Martin, M. Masterton, P. Noble, R.L. Ottinger, O.R. Owina, L. Paddock, J.L. Parker, W. Pianpian, G. Pink, A. Rieu-Clarke, N.A. Robinson, G. Rose, T.L Rucinski, S. Teles Da Silva, R.R. Valova, X. Wang, M.E. Wieder, W. XiTrade Review'The effective implementation as distinct from the enforcement of environmental laws depends upon a range of discrete factors. These include institutional, cultural, social, economic, political as well as traditional legal influences and perspectives. This series of essays explains and analyses the theoretical underpinnings of the relationship between all of these factors and the methodology appropriate to determining in practice whether environmental laws are being implemented so that their objectives are being achieved. This involves a review of the growing theoretical literature and a discussion of a significant number of examples, international, regional, national and local, which assess the extent of effective implementation of the relevant legal rules. The strength of these essays is two fold: the depth of the theoretical discourse and the breadth of the indicative practical examples. These essays will add considerable grist to the intellectual mill of those interested in the perception of environmental governance as an emerging global system.' --Douglas Fisher, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: A Jurisprudence of Environmental Governance? Paul Martin and Amanda Kennedy 1. Accelerating the Evolution of Environmental Law through Continuous Learning from Applied Experience Paul Martin and Donna Craig 2. Assessing Environmental Governance of the Hudson River Valley: Application of an IPPEP Model Wang Xi, Richard L. Ottinger, Nicholas A. Robinson, Albert K. Butzel, Marla E. Wieder, John Louis Parker, Taryn L. Rucinski, Radina R. Valova and Wang Pianpian 3. Putting the Train of Environmental Protection on Track: Nova Scotia's Experiment in Using Legislation to Strengthen Environmental Law Meinhard Doelle and William Lahey 4. Has Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Lost Credibility? Recent Concerns from Australia and Canada Wayne Gumley 5. Contamination and the Polluter Pays Principle Emma Lees 6. Possible Legal Obligations to Consult Tanya Howard and Solange Teles Da Silva 7. Implementing International Water Agreements Alistair Rieu-Clarke and Josefin Gooch 8. Fouling Adam's Eden: A Legal Analysis of the Collective Action Challenge in Lake Victoria Omondi Robert Owino 9. Marine Protection Treaties in Antarctic Waters: Fragmentation or Coordination in International Treaty Implementation Gregory Rose 10. The Effectiveness of Instrument Mixes in Environmental Law: Insights from Ship-source Pollution Javier de Cendra 11. Implementing Environmental Law and Collaborative Governance Cameron Holley and Andrew Lawson 12. Private Environmental Enforcement: Using Supply Chain Requirements to Achieve Better Environmental Outcomes LeRoy Paddock and Molly Masterton 13. Hybrid Governance and ‘Wicked’ Natural Resource Risks Paul Martin and Peter Noble 14. Regulators Networks: Collaborative Agency Approaches to the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law Grant Pink and Robyn Bartel Index

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Book SynopsisWater and the Law examines the critical relationship between law and the management of water resources in the context of ensuring environmental sustainability. It highlights the central importance of integrated water resources management and cooperation in achieving sustainability.The book considers two broad themes that are critical for life on Earth: how law can contribute to the sustainability of water itself and how the law s regulation of water can contribute to the sustainability of life both human life as well as that of other species in their natural environment. The expert contributors highlight that current approaches to water governance embrace integrated water resources management and appreciation of the holistic nature of the hydrological cycle. In addition to the recognition of the nature of water, there is also an apparent need for addressing water concerns in a cooperative manner.Capturing the complexities and challenges of protecting water as a resource on the one hand and utilizing it as a service on the other, this thought-provoking book will prove a valuable resource for researchers and students of both water law, and the nexus of environmental law with human rights.Contributors include: H. Alebachew, A. Bodart, T. Daya-Winterbottom, C. Dutra, D.E. Fisher, A. Foerster, E.B. Kasimbazi, G. Keremane, N. Lugaresi, V.G. Magalhães, J. McKay, A.R. Paterson, R. Pejan, S. Pollard, M. van Rijswick, M.D. dos Santos, J.C.L. da Silva, N. Soininen, I.U. Tappeiner, D. du Toit, P. Wouters, Z. WuTrade Review‘With its extensive footnoting the book also functions as an immensely rich resource of further references to further information, which will certainly delight researchers. Environmental lawyers and environmentalists alike will welcome this book as a valuable contribution to the current literature on this vital subject.’ -- The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Water and the Law – Towards Sustainability Michael Kidd and Loretta Feris PART I INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSBOUNDARY WATER LAW 2. ‘Dynamic Cooperation’ – The Evolution of Transboundary Water Cooperation Patricia Wouters 3. International Legal Perspectives on the Utilization of Trans-Boundary Rivers: The Case of the Ethiopian Renaissance (Nile) Dam Habtamu Alebachew 4. The Complexities of Developing a Transboundary Water Resources Management Agreement: Experiences from the Nile Basin Emmanuel B. Kasimbazi 5. Transboundary Groundwater Management: Comparison between International Law Guidelines and EU Water Policy Adrien Bodart PART II DOMESTIC WATER GOVERNANCE AND INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 6. A Jurisprudential Model for Sustainable Water Resources Governance Douglas E. Fisher 7. Sustainability, Governance and Water Management in New Zealand Trevor Daya-Winterbottom 8. The Protection of Riparian Forests and Water Resources Conservation in Brazil Mauricio D. dos Santos, Carolina Dutra, Vladimir Garcia Magalhães and José Carlos L. da Silva 9. Achieving Ecologically Sustainable Development in Multi-level Water Governance Regimes: The Case of the Murray Darling Basin Ganesh Keremane, Jennifer McKay and Zhifang Wu 10. Weighing of Interests in the Finnish Water Law – From Financial Evaluation to Normative Weight of Interests Niko Soininen 11. Water Law: Adapting to Climate Change in South-Eastern Australia? Anita Foerster 12. Developing an Institutional Legal Framework for Sustainable Regional Water Management in Times of Climate Change Marleen van Rijswick and Imelda U. Tappeiner 13. Using Progressive Realization and Reasonableness to Evaluate Implementation Lags in the South African Water Management Reform Process Ramin Pejan, Derick du Toit and Sharon Pollard PART III THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO WATER 14. The Right to Water and its Misconceptions, Between Developed and Developing Countries Nicola Lugaresi 15. The Endless Struggle of Indigenous Peoples in Protected Areas – The Bushman’s Challenge for Water Rights in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve Alexander Ross Paterson Index

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Book SynopsisWater and the Law examines the critical relationship between law and the management of water resources in the context of ensuring environmental sustainability. It highlights the central importance of integrated water resources management and cooperation in achieving sustainability.The book considers two broad themes that are critical for life on Earth: how law can contribute to the sustainability of water itself and how the law s regulation of water can contribute to the sustainability of life both human life as well as that of other species in their natural environment. The expert contributors highlight that current approaches to water governance embrace integrated water resources management and appreciation of the holistic nature of the hydrological cycle. In addition to the recognition of the nature of water, there is also an apparent need for addressing water concerns in a cooperative manner.Capturing the complexities and challenges of protecting water as a resource on the one hand and utilizing it as a service on the other, this thought-provoking book will prove a valuable resource for researchers and students of both water law, and the nexus of environmental law with human rights.Contributors include: H. Alebachew, A. Bodart, T. Daya-Winterbottom, C. Dutra, D.E. Fisher, A. Foerster, E.B. Kasimbazi, G. Keremane, N. Lugaresi, V.G. Magalhães, J. McKay, A.R. Paterson, R. Pejan, S. Pollard, M. van Rijswick, M.D. dos Santos, J.C.L. da Silva, N. Soininen, I.U. Tappeiner, D. du Toit, P. Wouters, Z. WuTrade Review‘With its extensive footnoting the book also functions as an immensely rich resource of further references to further information, which will certainly delight researchers. Environmental lawyers and environmentalists alike will welcome this book as a valuable contribution to the current literature on this vital subject.’ -- The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Water and the Law – Towards Sustainability Michael Kidd and Loretta Feris PART I INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSBOUNDARY WATER LAW 2. ‘Dynamic Cooperation’ – The Evolution of Transboundary Water Cooperation Patricia Wouters 3. International Legal Perspectives on the Utilization of Trans-Boundary Rivers: The Case of the Ethiopian Renaissance (Nile) Dam Habtamu Alebachew 4. The Complexities of Developing a Transboundary Water Resources Management Agreement: Experiences from the Nile Basin Emmanuel B. Kasimbazi 5. Transboundary Groundwater Management: Comparison between International Law Guidelines and EU Water Policy Adrien Bodart PART II DOMESTIC WATER GOVERNANCE AND INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 6. A Jurisprudential Model for Sustainable Water Resources Governance Douglas E. Fisher 7. Sustainability, Governance and Water Management in New Zealand Trevor Daya-Winterbottom 8. The Protection of Riparian Forests and Water Resources Conservation in Brazil Mauricio D. dos Santos, Carolina Dutra, Vladimir Garcia Magalhães and José Carlos L. da Silva 9. Achieving Ecologically Sustainable Development in Multi-level Water Governance Regimes: The Case of the Murray Darling Basin Ganesh Keremane, Jennifer McKay and Zhifang Wu 10. Weighing of Interests in the Finnish Water Law – From Financial Evaluation to Normative Weight of Interests Niko Soininen 11. Water Law: Adapting to Climate Change in South-Eastern Australia? Anita Foerster 12. Developing an Institutional Legal Framework for Sustainable Regional Water Management in Times of Climate Change Marleen van Rijswick and Imelda U. Tappeiner 13. Using Progressive Realization and Reasonableness to Evaluate Implementation Lags in the South African Water Management Reform Process Ramin Pejan, Derick du Toit and Sharon Pollard PART III THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO WATER 14. The Right to Water and its Misconceptions, Between Developed and Developing Countries Nicola Lugaresi 15. The Endless Struggle of Indigenous Peoples in Protected Areas – The Bushman’s Challenge for Water Rights in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve Alexander Ross Paterson Index

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Book SynopsisInspired by F.A. Hayek's Individualism and Economic Order, this book, edited by Yong Yoon, stands in contrast to the themes of that work by emphasizing that collective action operates differently from the way the market works. The chapters comprise papers written by James M. Buchanan, both with and without Yoon's co-authorship, after the publication of his Collected Works.In this book, the authors analyze political disorder that is caused by individualism and self-interest in democracy, focusing specifically on the American political commons. Buchanan and Yoon expertly examine a variety of topics within this theme: the public choice approach to political disorder, rigorous economic models, the dysfunction of American fiscal institutions, the psychological aspects of political rules, and Fukuyama's vetocracy as a case of anti-commons.Readers will gain many new insights from Individualism and Political Disorder, and it will prove invaluable for academics and students in an array of areas, such as economics, politics, public policy and public administration, social psychology, and law and economics.Trade Review'In these creative and imaginative essays, James M. Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon explore new analytical territory by explaining how democratic politics can generate economic disorder. While some of these themes are present throughout Buchanan's scholarly oeuvre, these essays break new analytical ground by examining the ability of democratic processes to promote destructive outcomes in the absence of appropriate constitutional restraints on democratic action. These articles and excerpts will repay careful study by all scholars interested in the relationship between democracy, liberty, and economic progress.' --Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Roger Congleton PART I INTRODUCTION Introduction: Political Disorder and Decay PART II ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION 1. Majoritarian Logic 2. Rationality as Prudence: Another Reason for Rules 3. The Efficacy of Arbitrary Rules (Buchanan and Yoon) 4. Variations on Tullock's Road Model 5. Symmetric Tragedies: Commons and Anti-commons 6. Majoritarian Management of the Commons 7. Universalism through common access: an alternative model of distributive politics 8. Majoritarian Exploitation of Fiscal Commons: General Taxes -Differential Transfers 9. All Voting is Strategic 10. Public Choice and the Extent of the Market 11. Choosing for Others: A Neglected Element in the Theory of Collective Action 12. The Cost of Collectivization, Per Se PART III: AMERICA’S FISCAL TRAGEDY 13. Institutional Sources of American Fiscal Tragedy Index

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Book SynopsisSignificant growth in economic activity in the Arctic has added weight to the argument that projects must be developed responsibly and sustainably. Addressing growing concerns regarding the exploitation of the Arctic's natural resources, this timely book presents and evaluates examples of best practice in Arctic environmental impact assessment.Timo Koivurova and Pamela Lesser succinctly synthesise primary data gathered from interviews with local communities, indigenous peoples, NGOs, government officials and businesses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Canada, Russia and the USA. Considering all stakeholder perspectives, they present the regulatory processes of all eight Arctic countries, and also provide helpful flowcharts that depict the process graphically for each country. Measuring these practices against the 1997 Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic, the only Arctic environmental impact assessment guidance document that has been officially approved by the ministers of all eight Arctic countries, this book identifies key areas where adherence to best practice is high, such as stakeholder outreach and development, as well as those areas that fall short. Thorough and accessible, Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic will provide an excellent reference for academics in the fields of law and environmental studies as well as for government officials and stakeholders who stand to benefit from best practice.Trade Review'Anyone interested in what makes environmental impact assessment (EIA) work, in any legal system, should own this book and refer to it often. The authors of this scholarly, practical and engaging study keenly observe the political, legal and cultural influences that explain the surprising national differences in the effectiveness of EIA around the Arctic. Their careful and systematic analysis of each country's system is prefaced by an insightful discussion of the literature and theory behind best practices. Each chapter is concise yet complete and documented by a well-chosen bibliography. The interviews with selected expert EIA practitioners add critical first-hand understanding of what helps and what hinders policies, laws and regulations being translated into an effective and transparent EIA process.' --Betsy Baker, University of Alaska-Fairbanks'This detailed description of environmental impact assessment practices around the Arctic offers much for experts to study, accompanied by insightful commentary that will inform specialists and generalists alike. By focusing on the practice of EIA, the authors emphasize the strengths of what is already being done, in addition to pointing out shortcomings in current approaches. This timely book should be read by anyone seeking to harness the power of EIA to promote socially and environmentally responsible development.' --Henry P. Huntington, Arctic Scientist, Alaska'Grounded in best practice empirical research informed by solid theoretical underpinnings, Koivurova and Lesser's book is an extremely welcome contribution to the literature. Focused on practical outcomes from the application of environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the Arctic, project proponents, scholars and others will benefit enormously from the experiences outlined; not only for the circumpolar north, but also in other places where EIA is the main environmental policy instrument to address the negative consequences of, typically, energy-related development.' --Simon Marsden, Flinders University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Arctic Transformation and its Consequences for Environmental Impact Assessment 1. Environmental Impact Assessment: Introduction to a Policy Instrument Manifesting Sustainable Development 2. EIA in the Arctic 3. Theoretical Discussion of Best Practice Research 4. Approach and Methodology 5. Finland, 6. Sweden, 7. Norway, 8. Iceland, 9. Canada, 10. USA, 11. Greenland 12. Russia 13. Synthesis 14. Transboundary EIA 15. Conclusions Index

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