Environmental Governance and Decentralisation

Edited by Albert Breton, Giorgio Brosio, Silvana Dalmazzone and Giovanna Garrone

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Abstract: This book examines how different countries define and address environmental issues, specifically in relation to intergovernmental relations: the creation of institutions, the assignment of powers, and the success of alternative solutions. It also investigates whether a systemic view of the environment has influenced the policy-making process. The broad perspective adopted includes a detailed analysis of seventeen countries in six continents by scholars from a range of disciplines – economics, political science, environmental science and law – thus producing novel material that moves away from the conventional treatment of decentralisation and the environment in economic literature.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781847203984
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Albert Breton, Giorgio Brosio, Silvana Dalmazzone and Giovanna Garrone

Ch 2 Australia: Preserving Biodiversity and Managing Water Resources

Jeffrey D. Petchey

Ch 3 Economic Growth and Environmental Protection in Brazil: An Unfavourable Trade-off

Clóvis Cavalcanti

Ch 4 Interdependence and Coordination in the Canadian Environmental Policy Process

Marcia Valiante

Ch 5 Ethiopia: Protecting Nature in a Developing Decentralized Country

Gedion Asfaw, Kifle Lemma and Sebsebe Demissew

Ch 6 European Union: Shifting Environmental Governance to the Supranational Level

Anthony R. Zito

Ch 7 Environmental Institutions in Germany: Leader or Laggard?

Stefanie Engel and Melanie Zimmermann

Ch 8 Overlapping Fiscal Domains and the Effectiveness of Environmental Policy in India

Subrata Mandal and Govinda Rao

Ch 9 Russia: The Difficult Transition to Stable Environmental Institutions

Pavel V. Kasyanov and Aliona V. Stovpivskaya

Ch 10 The Political Economy of Environmental Governance in the United States

Jason Shogren

Ch 11 Chile: The Development–Sustainability Dilemma

Tommaso Chiamparino, Laura Piazza and Irene Venturello

Ch 12 China: Seeking Meaningful Decentralization to Achieve Sustainability

Changhua Wu and Hua Wang

Ch 13 The Danish Communes: Capacities and Constraints in Environmental Management

Mikael Skou Andersen

Ch 14 France: Forces Shaping Centralization and Decentralization in Environmental Policymaking

Albert Breton and Pierre Salmon

Ch 15 Capacity Constraints on Local Government Environmental Policies in Ghana

Felix Ankomah Asante

Ch 16 Italy: Towards Responsibility-sharing in Environmental Protection

Ivana Capozza and Giovanna Garrone

Ch 17 The Netherlands: An Integrated, Participatory Approach to Environmental Policymaking

Duncan Liefferink and Mark Wiering

Ch 18 United Kingdom: Environmental Policymaking in a Centralised, Market-driven System

Stephen Smith

Ch 19 Trends in Environmental Governance: Evidence from Seventeen Countries and Sundry Reflections Thereon

Albert Breton, Giorgio Brosio, Silvana Dalmazzone and Giovanna Garrone

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