Environmental Management and Governance: Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability / Edition 1

by Raymond Burby, Jennifer Dixon, Neil Ericksen, John Handmer, Peter May

Overview

Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative vs. coercive environmental management, through a focus on the management of natural hazards. Leading experts in the field examine new and innovative environmental management and planning programmes with particular focus on North America and Australia.
This book offers a new understanding of environmental problems and explores the appropriate policy mix that must be developed for environmental management to strive towards environmental sustainability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415144452
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/1996
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1530L (what's this?)

About the Author

Peter J.May, Raymond J. Burby, Neil J. Ericksen, John W. Handmer, Jennifer E. Dixon, Sarah Michaels, D. Ingle Smith

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Rethinking Intergovernmental Environmental Management; Part 1 Policy Innovations in The United States, New Zealand, and Australia; Introduction1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Coercion and Prescription; Chapter 3 Devolution and Cooperation; Chapter 4 Toward Cooperative Policies; Part 2 The Policies in Practice; Introduction2 Introduction; Chapter 5 Policy to Implementation; Chapter 6 A Regional Government Role; Chapter 7 Local Planning, Compliance, and Innovation; Chapter 8 Sustainable Management Strategies; Chapter 9 Examining Outcomes of Cooperative Policies; Part 3 The Policy Innovations Revisited; Introduction3 Introduction; Chapter 10 The Commitment Conundrum; Chapter 11 Prospects for Cooperative Intergovernmental Policies;

Editorial Reviews

Environmental Management and Governance is a well-structured book. Readers can easily follow the logic of each chapter...For the most part the book is clearly written and well presented. Plates, figures and tables are numbered logically, well-positioned in relation to the text, and are of adequate size and visual quality. I believe that the book will be useful as a support text because of its information. The case studies will be most helpful for students...' - P.A. McManus, University of Newcastle, Australia.

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