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"Climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. This realisation is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while governments champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve environmental problems with the same thinking that created them and exhort individuals to take direct action. Governance is central to achieving collective action to steer society towards a more sustainable future. Environmental Governance is the only text to discuss the first principals of governance while also providing a critical overview of the wide ranging theories and approaches that underpin contemporary practice today. This book places governance within its wider political context to explore how the environment is controlled, manipulated, regulated, and contested by a range of actors and institutions. It shows how governance has shaped established approaches to environmental issues such as networks and markets, focusing on Kyoto and the post-Kyoto mechanisms to deal withclimate change. It highlights how the different approaches currently in play frame environmental problems in distinctive ways, privileging different solutions and types of change.This text provides a groundbreaking overview of dominant and emerging approaches of environmental governance, drawing on cutting edge debates and forging critical links between them. It is complimented by case studies, key debate boxes and end of the chapter questions and further reading. It is essential reading for students ofthe Environment, Politics and Sociology, and anyone concerned changing society in order to prevent global environmental crisis"--

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"J.P. Evans has written a first-class introduction to environmental governance that locates the subject clearly against the background of wider debates about the state, markets, and social actors. It should be an invaluable help to students interested in understanding the broader context of environmental policy, and how different actors work to make it happen at the global and other levels." Tim Forsyth, Reader in Environment and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

"I am grateful to finally have an accessible reader that introduces students to the phenomenon of Environmental Governance that offers them a means to see, understand, and begin to evaluate the effectiveness of the Wests ongoing transition from environmental management by governments to environmental governance by multiple actors. The book covers a surprisingly broad range of experiences, mechanisms, and even ways of framing environmental governance. With examples drawn from around the globe, this text should easily find a home in environmental politics and governance courses around the world." Ben Bradshaw, Associate Professor of Geography and Coordinator of the Environmental Governance Program, University of Guelph, Canada.

List of illustrations
ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Acronyms and abbreviations xvii
Chapter 1 Introduction
1(20)
Chapter 2 Governing the environment
21(24)
Chapter 3 Institutions, rules, and actors
45(31)
Chapter 4 Global governance
76(28)
Chapter 5 Networks
104(19)
Chapter 6 Markets
123(25)
Chapter 7 Transition management
148(22)
Chapter 8 Adaptive governance
170(17)
Chapter 9 Participation and politics
187(23)
Chapter 10 Conclusions
210(10)
Bibliography 220(26)
Index 246
James Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Governance in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester. He has an abiding interest in how environmental research underpins urban sustainability, and is currently leading two projects exploring this question in relation to resilience and living laboratories.