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Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians 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 ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process of steering society, governance has a critical role to play in coordinating these disparate voices and securing collective action to achieve a more sustainable future. Environmental Governance is the only book to discuss the first principles of governance, while also providing a critical overview of the wide-ranging theories and approaches that underpin policy and practice today. It 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. This book shows how network and market governance have shaped current approaches to environmental issues, while also introducing approaches such as transition management and adaptive governance. In so doing, it highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches currently in play, and considers their political implications. This second edition has been comprehensively updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition, with a new chapter on the environmental governance of outer space and updated analysis of international climate change summits. It provides a ground-breaking overview of dominant and emerging approaches of environmental governance, forging critical links between them. Each chapter has been updated with new case studies, key debates and figures, and includes questions for discussion and further reading. It is essential reading for students of the environment, politics and sociology, and, indeed, anyone concerned with changing society to secure a more sustainable future.

"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 with climate 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 of the Environment, Politics and Sociology, and anyone concerned changing society in order to prevent global environmental crisis"--

"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 with climate 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 of the Environment, Politics and Sociology, and anyone concerned changing society in order to prevent global environmental crisis"--

This open access book presents the state-of-the-art environmental governance research and practices in Indonesia. It offers a wide scope, covering different sectors (e.g., forestry, mining) and geographical landscapes (e.g., inland and coastal areas). This book engages with existing theories and frameworks, including Earth System Governance, Adaptive and Interactive Governance, among others to trigger a debate regarding the operationalization of such concepts, which are mostly developed for the Global North context. It is also our ambition to incorporate more empirical knowledge from local contexts to indicate research gaps and future directions for environmental governance research agenda to be more diverse, inclusive, and facilitate the incorporation of inter-and transdisciplinary knowledge. This book will be useful for researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in the field of environmental governance, especially in Indonesia. Indonesia is one of the countries with the fastest-growing economies in Asia. Indonesia is rich in natural resources but also suffers from overexploitation and environmental threats exacerbated by climate and human pressures. Along with the growing global ambitions for achieving sustainable development and capacity to adapt to current and future threats, including climate change impacts and disaster risk, Indonesia's commitments to balance development while safeguarding a good environmental status are also increasing. The challenge is on how to govern complex and systemic natural, social and governance systems while adhering to the principle of equity and justice? As it will require more than traditional hierarchical modes of governance and current regulatory instruments (i.e., law and regulations). This is an open access book.

"International Environmental Governance reviews the contentious approaches to addressing global and transboundary environmental threats. The volume collects together the most influential and important literature on the major political approaches to dealing with these problems, their histories, major debates, and research frontiers. It is accompanied by a substantial introduction which reviews the evolution of the academic contribution to environmental governance, focusing on a wide array of international environmental problems."--Provided by publisher.

A review essay on books by (1) Becky Mansfield [Ed], Privatization and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008); (2) Richard D. Morgenstern & William A. Pizer [Eds], Reality Check: The Nature and Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan (Washington, DC: Resources for Future, 2007); & (3) Philip H. Pattberg, Private Institutions of Global Governance. The New Politics of Environmental Sustainability (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar).

Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- PART I: emerging concepts and perspectives -- Chapter 2 Introducing the Pluriverse of the Anthropocene: Toward an Ontological Politics of Environmental Governance in Indonesia -- Chapter 3 Earth System Governance in Indonesia: An Initial Investigation -- Chapter 4 Post-politicizing the Environment: Local Government Performance Assessments in Indonesia -- PART II: Wetlands -- Chapter 5 Gender and Climate Change Vulnerability: A Case Study of a Coastal Community in Pramuka Island, The Seribu Islands -- Chapter 6 Coastal Forest Re-Grabbing: A Case from Langkat, North Sumatera, Indonesia -- Chapter 7 Towards Sustainable Lake Ecosystem-Based Management– Lessons Learned from Interdisciplinary Research of Cage Aquaculture Management in Lake Maninjau -- Chapter 8 Community-Based Fire Management and Peatland Restoration in Indonesia -- Chapter 9 Assessing the Governance Modes of Indonesia's Forest Management Unit -- Chapter 10 Biofuels Development and Indirect Deforestation -- Chapter 11 The Dynamics of the Green Policies in Papua Land: A Political Economy Study -- Chapter 12 Environmental Governance as Knowledge Co-Production: the Emergence of Permaculture Movements in Indonesia -- Chapter 13 Aggregation and Representation in Knowledge Coproduction: Lesson Learned from the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil Scheme -- Part IV: Urban -- Chapter 14 The Conceptual Models of Dynamic Governance Toward Sustainable Urban Water Management in Metropolitan Area -- Chapter 15 Governance by Accident:The Role of Civil Society in Shaping Urban Environmental Governance -- Chapter 16 Water Resources Governance in Indonesia Towards Environmental Sustainability Along with Social and Economic Development -- Chapter 17 Coordination Challenges Facing Effective Flood Governance in the Ciliwung River Basin -- Chapter 18 Transformative Solutions in the Global South: Addressing Solid Waste Management Challenges in Jakarta through Participation by Civil Society Organizations? -- PART V: Climate -- Chapter 19 Should Climate Actions Stay Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic? A Crisis Management Governance Perspective -- Chapter 20 Climate Action in a Far-Flung Archipelagic Nation: Outlining Challenges in Capacity-Building -- Chapter 21 Strategy for Sustainable Urban Climate Mitigation: Kupang City Climate Risk Assessment -- Chapter 22 Local resource governance: Strategies for adapting to change -- Part VI: Social and technological Interventions -- Chapter 23 Local Governance of Sustainability Transition in Community-scale Solar Water Pumping Systems in Indonesia -- Chapter 24 Building a Sustainable Photovoltaic Innovation System in Indonesia Through Network Governance Perspective -- Chapter 25 Conceptual Design of Sustainable Governance by VIDEL (Virtual Dashboard of Environmentally Logistics-Port-City): a Case Study of Jakarta and Tanjung-Priok Port.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part I History of Environmental Governance -- 1 Paolo Contini and Peter H. Sand (1972), 'Methods to Expedite Environment Protection: International Ecostandards', The American Journal of International Law, 66, pp. 37-59 -- 2 Maurice F. Strong (1973), 'One Year after Stockholm: An Ecological Approach to Management', Foreign Affairs, 51, pp. 690-707 -- Part II Nature of Environmental Governance Problem -- 3 Garrett Hardin (1968), 'The Tragedy of the Commons', Science, 162, pp. 1243-8 -- 4 Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom and Paul C. Stern (2003), 'The Struggle to Govern the Commons: Tragedy of the Commons', Science, 302, pp. 1907-12 -- 5 Martin W. Holdgate (1982), 'The Environmental Information Needs of the Decision-Maker', Nature and Resources, 18, pp. 5-10 -- Part III Realism and Power Politics -- 6 Kenneth N. Waltz (1979), 'The Management of International Affairs', in Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 194-210 -- 210a, 210b -- Part IV Institutional Bargaining -- 7 Oran R. Young (1989), 'The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural Resources and the Environment', International Organization, 43, pp. 349-75 -- 8 Marc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas and Robert O. Keohane (1992), 'Institutions for the Earth: Promoting International Environmental Protection', Environment, 34, pp. 12-7 -- 29-36 -- 9 Detlef Sprinz and Tapani Vaahtoranta (1994), 'The Interest-Based Explanation of International Environmental Policy', International Organization, 48, pp. 77-105 -- 10 George W. Downs (2000), 'Constructing Effective Environmental Regimes', Annual Review of Political Science, 3, pp. 25-42 -- Part V Scientific Governance