Institutions in Environmental Management: Constructing Mental Models and Sustainability (Routledge Eui Environmental Policy Series)

✍ Scribed by Janne Hukkinen

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work explores the difficulties of solving contemporary environmental problems within existing global institutions. It questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports, and suggests new agendas for sustainability, industrial ecology, and institutional reform. Including case studies from the USA, Europe and China, this book investigates a wide range of environmental problems presently confronting experts worldwide.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 16
Institutions and their analysis......Page 28
Institutional change and expertthinking......Page 30
Finding the institutional rules......Page 45
Case studies on modern environmental management......Page 64
Institutional distortion of water quality modelling in southern Colorado......Page 66
Network analysis of the controversy over irrigation-induced salinity and toxicity in central California......Page 88
Corporatism as an impediment to sustainable waste management in Finland......Page 118
Environmental management in China......Page 139
Institutional reform principles......Page 160
Principles of institutional reform......Page 162
Institutions of industrial ecology......Page 182
Experts in public......Page 196
Examples of the codification of interview transcripts into issue and problem networks......Page 210
Presentation of aggregated problem networks as Bayesian networks......Page 217
Bibliography......Page 220
Index......Page 236