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Co-operative Environmental Governance

Public-Private Agreements as a Policy Strategy

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Pieter Glasbergen

    1. Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Environment & Policy (ENPO, volume 12)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Question of Environmental Governance

    1. The Question of Environmental Governance

      • Pieter Glasbergen
      Pages 1-18

  4. Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. The Diversity of Environmental Agreements

      • Betty Gebers
      Pages 91-109

    3. Success Determining Factors for Negotiated Agreements

      • Akim Seyad, Steven Baeke, Marc de Clercq
      Pages 111-132

    4. Partnership as a Learning Process

      • Pieter Glasbergen
      Pages 133-156

    5. An Economic Approach to Environmental Agreements

      • Heidi Bergmann, Karl Ludwig Brockmann, Klaus Rennings
      Pages 157-177

    6. Trade Law Aspects in Relation to Use of Environmental Contracts

      • Ellen Margrethe Basse
      Pages 179-199

    7. Democracy and Environmental Agreements

      • Martin Enevoldsen
      Pages 201-226

  5. Prospects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. Power, Participation and Partnership

      • Andrew Blowers
      Pages 229-249

    3. Concluding Remarks: The Scope of Co-Operative Management

      • Peter Driessen
      Pages 251-267

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 269-294
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About this book

New philosophies of environmental management are being put to the test in many countries.ยท New ideas are needed to replace or at least flank the old command and control approach, which has lost its credibility. One of the most interesting new avenues is co-operative environmental management, whereby public and private parties work together to tackle a problem. It is interesting because it seems to be well suited to handling complex environmental problems. This kind of management makes use of the policy instrument known as the Environmental Agreement. That tool is geared to the development of sustainable procedures for working out solutions. The Environmental Agreement provides scope to deal with some essential characteristics of current environmental problems. Indeed, one of the most vexing aspects of environmental problems is uncertainty, both in the ecological sphere and with respect to the economic effects of intervention. In short, this instrument takes the unknown into account.

Reviews

`...Co-operative Environmental Governance provides a useful appraisal of the merits and limitations of existing partnerships and agreements. It deserves to be read widely and fills an important niche at a critical time when there is a great deal of interest in market-friendly, co-operative solutions to environmental problems.'
Environmental Politics, 9:2 (2000)
`This important collection of 12 essays deserves to be disseminated widely among environmental policy-makers as a matter of some urgency. The book makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of this rapidly intensifying area of study and policy-making experimentation. The book itself takes a pan-European, genuinely multidisciplinary approach, with contributions from lawyers, economists, and political and social scientists.'
RECIEL, 9:2 (2000)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Pieter Glasbergen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Co-operative Environmental Governance

  • Book Subtitle: Public-Private Agreements as a Policy Strategy

  • Editors: Pieter Glasbergen

  • Series Title: Environment & Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5143-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5148-1Published: 30 June 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5149-8Published: 30 June 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5143-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1383-5130

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0110

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 295

  • Topics: Environmental Management, Political Science, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice

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