Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I The State of Knowledge and Its Use in Environmental Economics -- 1 Introducing Complex Environmental Economics -- 1.1 The Problem of Environmental Governance -- 1.2 Climate Change and Planetary Boundaries -- 1.3 Models of Environmental and Human Processes -- 1.4 Structure of This Book -- 2 Complexity, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty as Basis for Policy Analysis -- 2.1 Agent Diversity, Uncertainty and Complexity -- 2.2 Four Key Policy Areas of High Uncertainty -- 2.3 Practical Relevance of the Paradigm Shift: Applications to Four Climate Policy Issues -- 2.4 Conclusion: A World of New Possibilities for Sustainability Policy-Making -- 3 Modelling Innovation and the Macroeconomics of Low-CarbonTransitions: Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Paradigms -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Innovation in Economic Theory and Models -- 3.3 The Role of Money and Finance in Current Macro-models -- 3.4 Implications of Model Choice for Climate-Related Policy-Making and Macroeconomic Impacts -- 3.5 Discussion and Policy Implications -- 4 Philosophies of Science and the Policy Cycle -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Policy Cycle -- 4.3 The Philosophy of Science in Economics -- 4.4 Political Philosophy in Law and Economics -- 4.5 Empirical Building Blocks for a Complexity Theory of Economics -- 4.6 Conclusion and Ways Forward -- Part II A Positive Theory for Complexity Economics -- 5 Concepts of Complexity for Economics -- 5.1 Introduction to Complexity Science -- 5.2 Properties of Interacting Systems -- 5.3 Scale-Free Networks -- 5.4 Self-Organised Criticality to Explain Evolution -- 5.5 Conclusion: Complexity Matters for Environmental Governance -- 6 Fundamental Uncertainty -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 What Is Uncertainty?. , 6.3 Decision-Making as a Source of Fundamental Uncertainty -- 6.4 Complexity as a Source of Fundamental Uncertainty -- 6.5 Conclusion and Outwards Look -- 7 Micro-foundations for Consumer Theory -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Review of Equilibrium Consumer Theory -- 7.3 A General Theory for Interacting Consumers in Economics -- 7.4 The Supply of New Products: Business, Innovation and Diffusion -- 7.5 Conclusions -- 7.6 Mathematical Appendices -- 8 Micro-foundations for an Economic Theory of Innovation -- 8.1 Introduction: Innovation as a Complex System -- 8.2 Schumpeter and the Economics of Innovation -- 8.3 Innovation Theory -- 8.4 Micro-foundations for a Theory of Innovation -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 8.6 Mathematical Appendix -- 9 Empirical Foundations for the Nature of Money -- 9.1 The Schism over Money -- 9.2 The Nature of Money in Anthropology -- 9.3 Money as an Unstable Scale-Free Network -- 9.4 A Complexity Model for Inflation and the Financial Instability -- 9.5 Conclusion: Implications for a New Understanding of Macroeconomics as a Complex Network -- 10 Micro-foundations for Credit Creation and the Business Cycle -- 10.1 Introduction: Framing the Problem -- 10.2 A Network Model of Distress Propagation -- 10.3 Conclusion and Outwards Look -- 10.4 Mathematical Appendix -- 11 A Macroeconomic Model for Growth and Creative Destruction -- 11.1 Schumpeter's Plea for Reasoned History -- 11.2 Economic Evolution, Growth and Instability -- 11.3 The Macroeconomic Implications of Creative Destruction -- 11.4 Conclusion: Cultures and Socio-Technical Regimes -- 11.5 Appendix: A Quantitative Model of Economic Growth and Business Cycles -- Part III Applied Complexity Economics for Environmental Governance -- 12 Risk-Opportunity Analysis for Transformative Policy Designand Appraisal -- 12.1 The Low-Carbon Innovation Policy Problem. , 12.2 Challenges in Policy Appraisal -- 12.3 Risk-Opportunity Analysis for Informing Policy-Making -- 12.4 Policy Domains Where ROA Could Make a Difference -- 12.5 Conclusion -- 13 A Science-Policy Interface for the Energy-Water-Food Nexus -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Review of the General Context -- 13.3 Nexus Analysis: Four Case Studies -- 13.4 Policy Implications -- 13.5 Conclusion -- 14 Technology Dynamics in a Rapid Low-Carbon Transition -- 14.1 Technological Change Is Path-Dependent -- 14.2 Technology Support towards Tipping Points -- 14.3 Forecasting Technological Change -- 14.4 Reframing Technology Policy Narratives -- 14.5 Mathematical Appendix -- 15 Macroeconomics and Structural Change in a Rapid Low-Carbon Transition -- 15.1 Defining Structural Change in the Energy Transition -- 15.2 The Decline of the Age of Oil -- 15.3 Macroeconomics of the Energy Transition -- 15.4 Macroeconomic Risks and Opportunities -- 15.5 Creating Resilience through Economic Diversification -- 15.6 Appendix: Model Assumptions -- 16 Conclusions and Outlook -- 16.1 What This Book Set Out to Achieve -- 16.2 Changing the Mode of Conversation -- 16.3 Foundations for the Low-Carbon Economy -- 16.4 A New World Order of Economic Power -- 16.5 Looking Forwards without Forgetting the Past -- 16.6 A Lot Left to Learn -- References -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acronyms -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Research trends in global environmental politics -- Part II States and Cooperation -- 2 When regimes backfire: institutional expectations and environmental deadlock -- 3 Changing issue structure to avoid free riders: protecting the ocean environment -- 4 International environmental regimes as decision machines -- 5 Climate regime design, the global warming potential, and climate risk management -- 6 The politics of persuasion: UN climate change negotiations -- 7 Do we need more global sustainability conferences? -- 8 Changing North-South challenges in global environmental politics -- 9 Environment, conflict, and peacebuilding -- 10 The comfortable lie? Another look at natural resource scarcity and armed conflict -- Part III Global Governance -- 11 Legitimacy problems and responses in global environmental governance -- 12 International organizations and global environmental governance: toward structural reform -- 13 Studying the global commons: governance without politics? -- 14 Long-term environmental policy: definition-origin-response options -- 15 Global environmental politics and governance: a networks and flows perspective -- 16 Global multilevel governance and the management of hazardous chemicals -- 17 Governing climate change: the challenge of mitigating and adapting in a warming world -- 18 Climate governance experiments -- 19 Global cities and the politics of climate change -- Part IV The Political Economy of Governance -- 20 The political ecology of globalization -- 21 Exploring global governance from a critical global political economy perspective -- 22 Nonstate actors in global environmental governance -- 23 The effectiveness of private environmental governance. , 24 Private actors and strategies in global environmental governance: the role of information disclosure -- 25 Business power, business conflict: a neo-pluralist perspective on international environmental politics -- 26 Impacts of nonstate governance: lessons from the certification of marine fisheries -- 27 Evaluating World Bank environmental performance -- 28 Greening development finance: cases from the World Bank Group -- 29 Moving the earth: cars and the dynamics of environmental politics -- 30 Trade-environment politics: the emerging role of regional trade agreements -- Part V Knowledge and Ethics -- 31 Environmental human rights: greening "the dignity and worth of the human person" -- 32 Thinking like a planet: Gaian politics and the transformation of the world food system -- 33 After nature: environmental politics in a postmodern age -- 34 Knowledge, power and global environmental policy -- 35 The global politics of geoengineering -- 36 A sustainability ethic -- 37 The sustainability debate: déjà vu all over again? -- 38 Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response -- 39 Democracy and global environmental politics -- 40 Ecological citizenship revisited -- Index.

Note: Intro -- GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES: IMPACT, MANAGEMENT AND EFFECTS -- GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES: IMPACT, MANAGEMENT AND EFFECTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE ROLE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN THE DETERMINATION OF POLICY LEGITIMACY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PEOPLE AND PLANET MATTERS -- CASE STUDY: THE COORONG AND LOWER LAKES WETLAND -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, BIOFUEL: SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BIOFUELS AND DEFORESTATION -- CROPPING PATTERNS (CONVENTIONAL, ORGANIC AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS) -- EFFECT OF BIOMASS COLLECTION ON SOIL CARBON/FERTILITY -- BIOFUELS AND FOOD PRICE -- DIETARY CHOICES AND HEALTH CONCERNS -- FOOD PACKAGING, SUPPLY AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 WOODFUELS USE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURES' MATERIALIZATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 2.1. Application of the Retscreen International Software -- 2.2. Parameters of the Energy Projects -- 2.3. Retscreen Software Characteristics -- 3. EVALUATION OF THE PROJECTS -- 3.1. Environmental Evaluation of the Projects -- 3.2. Financial Evaluation of the Projects -- 3.2.1. Financial Considerations of Energy Projects -- 3.2.2. Financial Outcomes of the Projects -- 4. THE GREEK AND THE WOODFUEL IMPORTS FROM THE NEARBY BALKAN COUNTRIES SCENARIOS -- 5. TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS PRESENTATION -- 5.1. Environmental Evaluation of the Scenarios -- 5.2. Financial Evaluation of the Scenarios -- 5.2.1. General Financial Consideration -- 5.2.2. Financial Evaluation of the Scenarios -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 EVALUATION OF THE ALGORITHMS USED IN CALPUFF MODEL FOR VISIBILITY IMPACT DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION. , 1.1. Air Quality Trends in National Parks -- 1.2. Purpose -- 2. METHODOLOGY -- 2.1. Input Data Compilation -- 2.2. Model Selection -- 2.2.1. CALMET Preprocessor -- 2.2.2. CALPUFF Model -- 2.2.3. CALPOST Postprocessor -- Old (Original ) IMPROVE Algorithm -- New IMPROVE Algorithm -- Sea Salt Term -- Organic Mass to Carbon Ratio -- Rayleigh Scattering Factor -- Split Component Extinction Efficiency Model -- NO2 Light Absorption Term -- 2.3. Evaluation of Results -- 2.3.1. Analysis of the Monitoring -- 2.3.2. Analysis of Model Results -- 2.3.3. Evaluation of Predicted Visibility Impact -- 2.3.4. 98th Percentile Method of Evaluation -- 3. INPUT DATABASE DEVELOPMENT -- 3.1.1. Facility Location and Relevant Class I Areas -- 3.2. The CALPUFF/CALMET Model Input Parameters -- 3.2.1. Modeling Domain -- 3.2.2. Receptor Network and Receptor Data -- 3.2.3. Emission Input Data -- 3.2.4. Pollutants Input Data -- 3.2.5. Meteorological Input Parameters -- 3.3. CALPOST Postprocessing Input Parameters -- 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4.1. Visibility Impact -- 4.2. Comparison of Visibility Results between Two Algorithms -- 5.3. Comparison of Visibility Values between Observed and Predicted Visibility Results -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 THE STATE OF AIR POLLUTION IN NORTH KOREA IN COMPARISON WITH SOUTH KOREA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL POLICY OF NORTH KOREA -- 3. THE STATE OF AIR POLLUTION IN NORTH KOREA -- 1) The State of Local Air Pollution in North Korea -- The State of Air Pollution of a Rural Area in North Korea: Geumho -- The State of Air Pollution of an Urban Area in North Korea: Pyongyang -- The State of Air Pollution of an Industrial Area in North Korea: Wonsan -- 2) Comparison of Ambient and Personal Exposure Levels of Air Pollution between Seoul and Pyongyang -- Ambient Air Qualities -- NO2 -- SO2. , Personal Exposure -- 3) The Estimation of the Air Pollutants Emissions in North Korea -- Air Pollutants Emissions in North Korea -- Air Pollutants Emissions in Pyongyang -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Articles in Journals -- Books -- Chapter 6 A DESCRIPTION OF ACCESS TO WATER IN YUCATÁN, MÉXICO -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. WATER SITUATION IN YUCATAN -- 3. ACCESS TO WATER IN YUCATAN -- 3.1. Types of Access to Water -- 3.2. Water Quality -- 3.3. Time Required for Access -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 HOW CAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES -- ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING -- Environmental Management Accounting and Cost Assessments -- Environmental Financial Accounting -- Environmental Reporting -- Environmental Auditing -- Environmental Economics or Natural Resource Accounting -- THE POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES -- Identification of Issues -- Development of Environmental Policies -- Implementation of Environmental Policies -- Monitoring the Effects of Environmental Policies -- Reporting on the Effects of Environmental Policies -- Review of Environmental Policies -- HOW CAN THE CONTRIBUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES BE IMPROVED? -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON LAKE MIXING PATTERNS AND WATER QUALITY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FACTS ABOUT LAKE TAHOE -- 3. METHODS -- 3.1. Lake Clarity model -- 3.2. Future 40-Year Scenario -- 3.3. Future Trends of Climatic Variables -- 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- 4.1. Future Trend of Climatic Variables -- 4.2. Lake Warming and Stability Change -- 4.3. Warming Trend in Other Lakes. , 4.4. Possible Effects on Lake due to Warming Trend -- CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 THE SUSTAINABLE TERRITORIAL ENVIRONMENTAL/ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO MANAGE POLICY IMPACTS AND EFFECTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 4.1. The STeM Approach structure -- 4.2. The Conceptual Base of the Model -- 4.3. Easier Hypothesis of the STeM Approach -- 4.3.1. How to Calculate the Development Limit in STeMA -- 2. METHODOLOGY FOR THE PLANNING AND PROJECT CHOICE -- 3. OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES -- 4. CONCLUSION AND OPEN QUESTIONS: SOME REMARKS ON IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT -- REFERENCES -- ESPON 2006 PROGRAMME SOURCES -- Chapter 10 REVIEW OF CORNERSTONE PARAMETERS INFLUENCING FUTURE ENERGY POLICY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. VANISHING CHEAP RESOURCES -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. A Changing World Energy Resource Base -- 1.3. Effects of Global Economies -- 1.4. Conclusion -- 2. POTENTIAL INFLUENCES OF HYDROGEN GAS ON THE ENVIRONMENT -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Hydrogen in our Future -- 2.3. Impact of Hydrogen on the Ecosystem -- 2.4. "New" Renewables -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 3. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GLOBAL WARMING AS A SCIENTIFIC FACT -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Human Impact on Global Warming -- 3.3. Conclusion -- 4. CO2 EMISSIONS CALCULATIONS DUE TO ELECTRICITY GENERATION BASED ON VARIOUS SOURCES -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Electricity Generation -- 4.3. Conclusion -- 5. SUMMARY AND OVERALL CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

Note: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Current Dilemma -- 1. A View from a Marsh: Myths and Facts About Nature -- 2. Why the Elephants Died: Breakdown in the Management of Living Resources -- 3. Moose in the Wilderness: The Instability of Populations -- 4. Oaks in New Jersey: Machine-Age Forests -- PART TWO: Background to Crisis -- 5. Mountain Lions and Mule Deer: Nature as Divine Order -- 6. Earth as a Fellow Creature: Organic Views of Nature -- 7. In Mill Hollow: Nature as the Great Machine -- PART THREE: Evolving Images -- 8. The Forest in the Computer: New Metaphors for Nature -- 9. Within the Moose's Stomach: Nature as the Biosphere -- PART FOUR: Resolutions for Our Time -- 10. Fire in the Forest: Managing Living Resources -- 11. Salmon in Wild Rivers and Grizzlies in Yellowstone: Managing Wildlife and Conserving Endangered Species -- 12. The Winds of Mauna Loa: Climate in a Changing World -- 13. Life on a Climate-Changing Planet -- 14. The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Nature in the Twenty-First Century -- Postscript: A Guide to Action -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Note: Intro -- ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING -- ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS IN STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL PLANNING OF SUPPLY CHAINS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ENVIRONMENTAL AND OPERATIONS PLANNING -- 2.1. Planning Drivers -- 2.1.1. Cost benefit analysis -- 2.1.2. Environmental metrics -- 2.2. Legislation Constraints and CO2 Trading -- 3. THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL -- 3.1. Supply Chain Design - Planning Model -- 3.2. Supply Chain - Environmental Model -- 3.3. Supply Chain - Economic Model -- 4. CASE STUDY: A SUPPLY CHAIN FOR MALEIC ANHYDRIDE -- 4.1.1. CO2 emission trading considerations -- 4.1.2. Product and raw material subsidies -- 5. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: THE LINKS BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND COMPETITIVENESS: THE CASE OF THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR IN ANDALUCÍA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND COMPETITIVENESS -- 1.1. Definitions and Measurements of Competitiveness -- 2. THE EFFECT OF WATER POLICIES ON COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE -- 3. THE CASE STUDY: THE EFFECT OF WATER POLICIES ON AGRICULTURE SECTOR PERFORMANCE IN ANDALUCIA -- 3.1. Objectives and Applied Methodology -- 3.2. Geographical Description -- 3.3. The Agriculture Sector and its Impacts on Environment -- 3.4. Water Resources -- 3.5 Water Policies and Competitiveness -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: ENHANCING ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING THROUGH THE USE OF THE THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITY EXERGY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXERGY -- 3. EXERGY AND ECOLOGY -- 3.1. Exergy-Based Ecological Indicators -- 3.2. Eco-Exergy and Emergy -- 3.3. Environmental Planning Based on Exergy and Ecology -- 4. EXERGY AND ENVIRONMENT -- 4.1. Exergy-Based Environmental Methods. , 4.2. Environmental Planning using Exergy and Its Role as an Environmental Indicator -- 5. EXTENSIONS TO ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING -- 6. APPLICATIONS OF EXERGY IN ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT -- 6.1. Exergy and Ecology Applications -- 6.2. Exergy and Environment Applications -- 6.3. Contributions of Applications to Environmental Planning -- 7. ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE -- 8. CLOSING REMARKS -- Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING INPUTS BY THE FOREST SECTOR: THE SCALE FACTOR, THE CONNECTION PLANNING-MANAGEMENT AND THE RELATIONS WITH OTHER PLANNING SECTORS IN ITALY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FOREST FACTS AS BACKGROUND -- 3. PLANNING AND FOREST MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN ITALY: THE SCALE FACTOR -- 3.1. International Processes on Forest Planning and Its Definition -- 3.2. A Critical Analysis of Current Programming and Management Tools Adopted in Italy at Different Levels -- 4. ENVIRONMENTAL, LAND USE AND FOREST PLANNING TOOLS: MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP -- 5. FROM FOREST PLANNING TO MANAGEMENT: THE REAL EFFECT OF PLANNING TOOLS ON FOREST MANAGEMENT AS CURRENTLY APPLIED -- 6. NEW PERSPECTIVE IN FOREST MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING -- 7. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: OPERATIONS RESEARCH METHODS IN PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A SURVEY OF RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL MODELING FOR ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION -- 3. FORMULATION OF A MULTIOBJECTIVE MODEL IN CONTINUOUS VARIABLE -- 3.1. The Maximum Expected Return Problem -- 3.2. The Minimum Pollution Risk Problem with Environmental Constraints -- 3.3. The Minimum Pollution Risk Problem with Mean Type Environmental Constraints -- 3.4. Numerical Results -- 4. FORMULATION OF A MULTIOBJECTIVE MODEL IN DISCRETE VARIABLES -- 4.1. A Minimum Financial Risk Model -- 4.2. A Maximum Expected Return Model -- 4.3. Numerical Results. , 5. FORMULATION OF A BINARY MULTIOBJECTIVE MODEL FOR CROP PLANNING IN AGRICULTURE -- 5.1. Loss Functions -- 5.2. Crop Planning Models for Sustainable Agriculture -- 5.3. Numerical Results -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: POLICY ANALYTICAL CAPACITY IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR: SURVEY RESULTS FROM CANADA -- INTRODUCTION -- EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY CAPACITY -- METHODS -- WHO ARE PROVINCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ANALYSTS? -- POLICY ANALYTICAL CAPACITY IN PRACTICE -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- Chapter 7: GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY -- ABSTRACT -- Public Participation in the Network Society -- GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY -- Public Participation in Society -- Decision Making and Inclusion of the Public -- The Network Society -- Inter-Organizational Networks -- Decision-Making in the Network Society -- Governance of Networks -- Co-Governance of Networks -- Meta-Governance of Networks -- Meta- Governance and Representative Democracy -- Social Learning in the Network Society -- The Facilitation of Social Learning in the Network Society -- The Use of Public Participation Methodology in the Practice of Co-Governance and Meta-Governance -- Characteristics of Lay Knowledge in Participatory Technology Assessment -- Participatory Inquiry in the Development of Joint Deliberation and Co-Governance -- Narrative Policy Analysis and the Network Society -- Applying Joint Deliberation to Technological Developments -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY IN THE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PARKS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SUSTAINABILITY AND DESIGN OF INDUSTRIAL PARKS -- 2.1. Sustainability Strategies Based on Industrial Ecology -- 2.2. The Concept of Sustainable Industrial Park (Eco-Industrial Park, EIP). , 3. TYPES AND DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF EIPS -- 3.1. Local Scale -- 3.2. Regional Scale -- 3.3. Summary of Features Pursuant to the Geographical Scale -- 3.4. Development Situation at an International Level -- 4. ORGANISMS INVOLVED AND MANAGEMENT OF EIPS -- 4.1. Organisms Involved -- 4.2. Forms of Management -- 5. BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS OF EIPS -- 5.1. Benefits -- 5.2. Limitations -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: DEVELOPING A DROUGHT PLANNING EVALUATION SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE CURRENT STATE OF DROUGHT PLANNING -- 3. EVALUATION METHODS AND CRITERIA -- 3.1. Scoring -- 3.2. Evaluation Criteria -- 4. CASE STUDIES -- 5. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS -- 6. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING: IDENTIFYING THE CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR SUCCESS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING: FIVE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS -- 2.1. Adaptation -- 2.2. Ecosystem-Based Approach -- 2.3. Integration -- 2.4. Participation -- 2.5. Future-Orientation -- 3. A CLEAR LEGAL AUTHORITY FOR MSP -- 4. MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING: WHAT IS IT NOT? -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH FOR PARTICIPATORY LAND USE PLANNING IN AREAS AFFECTED BY DESERTIFICATION OF THE EUROPEAN MEDITERRANEAN REGION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY -- THE LUPIS SPATIAL DECISON SUPPORT SYSTEM -- THE PLANNING EXERCISE -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acronyms -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- 1 Global environmental politics: handbook topics and themes -- 2 Research in global environmental politics: history and trends -- PART II STATES, GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY -- 3 Garrett Hardin and tragedies of global commons -- 4 Studying the global commons: governance without politics? -- 5 Globalization and environmental protection on the high seas -- 6 Renewable energy and international politics -- 7 Effectiveness, capacity development and international environmental cooperation -- 8 Why environmental politics looks different from the South -- 9 Man, the state and nature: rethinking environmental security -- 10 Filthy rich, not dirt poor! How nature nurtures civil violence -- 11 Why is there no unified theory of environmental governance? -- PART III CAPITALISM, TRADE AND CORPORATIONS -- 12 Towards a political economy of global environmental governance -- 13 Environmental governance … or government? The international politics of environmental instruments -- 14 Environmental regulation, certification and corporate standards: a critique -- 15 Incentives affecting land use decisions of nonindustrial private forest landowners -- 16 Green political economy and the promise of the social economy -- 17 Moving the earth: cars and the dynamics of environmental politics -- 18 Transnational corporations and global environmental governance -- 19 Environmental policy and the environmental Kuznets curve: can developing countries escape the detrimental consequences of economic growth? -- 20 Trade liberalization and global environmental governance: the potential for conflict -- 21 The environment, trade and international organizations -- 22 Race to the middle: environmental politics in the Mercosur free trade agreement -- PART IV CIVIL SOCIETIES, KNOWLEDGE AND ETHICS. , 23 Science and environmental citizenship -- 24 Science and international environmental governance -- 25 Knowledge and global environmental policy -- 26 Vulnerability analysis and environmental governance -- 27 Growth and fragmentation in expert networks: the elusive quest for integrated water resources management -- 28 After nature: environmental politics in a postmodern age -- 29 Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response -- 30 Gaia theory: intimations for global environmental politics -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- List of contributors -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Characterizing the Science/Practice Gap -- Part II: What Do We Know Now? -- Chapter 2: Knowledge to Practice in the Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience Literature: A Propositional Inventory -- Chapter 3: Integrating Science and Practice for the Mitigation of Natural Disasters: Barriers, Bridges, Propositions -- Chapter 4: Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience Science to Practice: Pathways, Players and Partnerships -- Part III: Growing Political Urgency: Climate Change -- Chapter 5: The US Climate Change Science Program -- Chapter 6: Linking Climate Change Science with Policy in California -- Chapter 7: Russia's Climate Policy and the Kyoto Ratification Deal: Assessing the Science/Practice Interface -- Chapter 8: Urban and Social Vulnerability to Climate Variability in Tijuana, Mexico -- Part IV: The Science/Practice Gap: Global Perspectives -- Chapter 9: Food Insecurity in South Africa -- Chapter 10: Science and Vulnerability Reduction in Taiwan after the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake -- Chapter 11: Participatory Evaluation of Development Interventions in a Vulnerable African Environment -- Chapter 12: Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Resource Management in the Canadian Arctic -- Chapter 13: Reducing Vulnerability of Rural Communities in the Philippines: Modelling Social Links between Science and Policy -- Chapter 14: Addressing Vulnerability in the European Programme for Food Aid and Food Security: Knowledge Gaps, Obstacles and Opportunities Across the Science/Practice Interface -- Chapter 15: Land in Transition: Coping with Market Forces in Managing Rangelands in Mongolia. , Chapter 16: Managing Floods and Scarcity in a Monsoon Climate -- Part V: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Chapter 17: Issues that Need to be Addressed: Assessing Experience -- Chapter 18 Directions for Closing the Science/Practice Gap -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Environment and Development -- About the Editors and Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 SEA and Policy Formulation -- Introduction -- Evolution of SEA -- Impact-Based SEA -- Applying SEA to Plans and Programs -- Applying SEA to Policies -- Toward an "Institution-Centered" SEA Approach -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Policy-Level Strategic Environmental Assessments: Process Integration and Incentives of Policy Proponents -- Introduction -- Case Studies -- Argentina: Policy Reform in Water and Sanitation Sectors -- Canada: SEA for NAFTA -- The Czech Republic: Tourism Policy -- The Slovak Republic: Energy Policy 2000 -- South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Trade and Industrial Development Policy -- Analysis of Case Studies -- Results Viewed in the Context of Integration -- Integration and Concerns about Watering Down Attention to the Environment -- Assessments of SEA Requirements for Policy Proposals in Canada and the Netherlands -- Audit of Canadian Cabinet Directive on SEA (2004) -- Evaluation of the Netherlands' E-Test -- Lessons Learned -- Conclusions -- Fostering Interaction between SEA Teams and Policy Designers -- Creating Incentives for Compliance -- Fostering Organizational Learning -- Gaining High-Level Commitment -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 3 The Continuous Process of Policy Formation -- Introduction -- Policy Formation as Decision Making -- The Rational Decision-Making Model -- Assumption about information -- Assumption of unitary actors -- Assumptions about the nature of the problem -- The Garbage Can Model of Decision Making -- The garbage can model and policy making -- Policy formation and path dependency -- Limitations of and lessons from the garbage can model -- Policy Formation as a Continuous Process -- Managing Uncertainty -- Managing Ambiguity. , A Model of Continuous Policy Formation -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- CHAPTER 4 Toward Environmental Priority Setting in Development -- Introduction -- Background -- Comparative Risk Analysis -- Economic Damage Assessment -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 5 Giving the Most Vulnerable a Voice -- Introduction -- Why the Vulnerable Should Be Involved in Policy Formulation -- Definition of the Vulnerable and How They Are Affected -- Natural Resource Management -- Environmental Health -- Waste Management -- Natural Disasters and Climate Change -- Creation of an Enabling Environment in Which the Vulnerable Can Be Heard -- Entry Points for Giving Vulnerable Groups Voice -- Levels of Participation in Policy Processes -- Tools for Giving the Vulnerable Voice -- Stakeholder Analysis -- Institutional Analysis -- Social Impact Analysis -- Beneficiary Assessment and Participatory Poverty Assessment -- Citizen Report Cards and Community Scorecards -- Case Studies -- Participatory Budgeting and Environmental Management in Porto Alegre, Brazil -- Process -- Findings and impact -- Why the voice of vulnerable groups was heard -- Policy toward Pastoralists in Mongolia -- Process -- Findings and impact -- Why the voice of vulnerable groups was heard -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 6 Building and Reinforcing Social Accountability for Improved Environmental Governance -- Introduction -- Definitions and Causal Linkages -- Accountability -- Transparency -- Constituency -- The state as a set of constituencies -- Civil society and civil society organizations -- Constituency lifetimes -- Participation -- Strength of the State -- Causal Linkages -- Policy Making and Linearity -- Engines of Environmental Accountability -- Externalities and Constituencies -- The Danger from Elites -- Linking the Key Variables -- Case Studies. , Reducing Air Pollution in Delhi -- Critical success factors -- Cautionary notes -- Using Public Disclosure to Abate Pollution in Indonesia -- Critical success factors -- Cautionary notes -- Patterns and Themes -- Accountability -- Transparency -- Constituencies -- The Role of Civil Society Organizations -- The Legal Environment -- The Process of Public Decision Making -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 7 Learning in Environmental Policy Making and Implementation -- Introduction -- What Is Organizational Learning? -- Framing Policy Learning -- Cases of Policy Learning -- Brazil: Making Policy in a Patrimonial Context -- South Africa: Making Environmental and Educational Concerns Relevant to Citizens -- Conclusions -- Priority or Agenda Setting -- Stakeholder Representation in Policy Formulation -- Accountability in Implementation -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 8 Using Strategic Environmental Assessments to Design and Implement Public Policy -- Introduction -- SEA for Policies -- Policy Formation and Challenges for Applying SEA -- Policy Formation Is Continuous -- Historical Events Shape and Lock in Policies -- Elite Capture and Vested Interests Influence Policy Design and Implementation -- Policy Making Is a Complex-and Inherently Political-Process -- Proposed Policy SEA Approach -- Analytical Work -- Identifying environmental priorities -- Technical analysis -- Institutional analysis -- Participatory Approaches -- Identifying weak and vulnerable stakeholders -- Enhancing the voice of environmentally vulnerable groups -- Reinforcing social accountability -- Learning Processes -- Lessons from Good Practice -- Setting Priorities to Periodically Reevaluate Goals and Raise Attention -- Ensuring that the Voice of the Most Vulnerable Is Heard -- Reinforcing Social Accountability. , Incorporating Learning in Environmental Policy Making and Implementation -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

Note: Intro -- COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT What Roles for Government? -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- CHAPTER 1. Governmental Roles in Collaborative Environmental Management -- Part I: Government as Follower -- CHAPTER 2. Citizen-Initiated Collaboration: The Applegate Partnership -- CHAPTER 3. Nonprofit Facilitation:The Darby Partnership -- Part II: Government as Encourager -- CHAPTER 4. Encouragement through "Carrots" and "Sticks": Habitat Conservation Planning and the Endangered Species Act -- CHAPTER 5. Encouragement through Grants: Ohio's Farmland Preservation Task Forces -- Part III: Government as Leader -- CHAPTER 6. Science-Based Collaborative Management: The Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study -- CHAPTER 7. Government-Led Community Collaboration: The Animas River Stakeholder Group -- Part IV: Reconsidering Governmental Roles -- CHAPTER 8. Government as Actor and as Institution -- CHAPTER 9. Envisioning the Roles of Government -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction and Background -- Chapter 1. The Case and Movement for Securing People and Nature -- Chapter 2. Scaling Pathways for Inclusive Green Growth -- Chapter 3. Amplifying Small Solutions for Systemwide Change -- Chapter 4. Collaborative Approaches to Biosphere Stewardship -- Chapter 5. The "Five Ps": Policy Instrument Choice for Inclusive Green Growth -- Part II. Policy and Finance Mechanisms for Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Livelihoods -- Chapter 6. Government Payments -- Chapter 7. Regulatory Mechanisms -- Chapter 8. Voluntary Mechanisms -- Chapter 9. Water Funds -- Chapter 10. Market-Based Mechanisms -- Chapter 11. Multilateral and Bilateral Mechanisms -- Part III. Successful Experience in Inclusive Green Growth around the World -- Chapter 12. China: Designing Policies to Enhance Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 13. Costa Rica: Bringing Natural Capital Values into the Mainstream -- Chapter 14. United States: Blending Finance Mechanisms for Coastal Resilience and Climate Adaptation -- Chapter 15. United Kingdom: Paying for Ecosystem Services in the Public and Private Sectors -- Chapter 16. Caribbean: Implementing Successful Development Planning and Investment Strategies -- Chapter 17. Cities: Incorporating Natural Capital into Urban Planning -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- About the Editors -- Index -- IP Board of Directors.