Suchergebnisse

Sustainability: exploring the processes and outcomes of governance / W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan -- Human development and environmental governance: a reality check / Katrina Brown -- Governance, government and the pursuit of sustainability / Albert Weale -- How do environmental actors make governance systems more sustainable? The role of politics and ideas in policy change / Philip Lowe and Katy Wilkinson -- Global governance for sustainable capitalism? The political economy of global environmental governance / Matthew Paterson -- Citizens, citizenship and governance for sustainability / Andy Dobson -- The governance of science for sustainability / Jill Jäger -- Practitioner evaluations of participatory processes in environmental decision making / Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark -- Participation, precaution and reflexive governance for sustainable development / Andy Stirling -- Precaution and the governance of risk / Ortwin Renn -- Economics and the governance of sustainable development / Simon Dietz and Eric Neumayer -- Sustainability: welfare and value and time / John O'Neill -- Reflections on the pathways to sustainability / Tim O'Riordan

This paper reviews literature in and around new institutional economics to assess its contributions to, and limitations in, research on environmental decision-making and governance. The paper also proposes ways to increase the fruitfulness of new institutional approach for environmental research. The paper identifies the conceptualisation of environmental problems as instances of interdependence and the acknowledgement of positive transaction costs as the hallmarks of new institutional approach to the environment. The paper also discusses how the new institutional approach can be extended so as to acknowledge plural motivations and limited cognitive capacity. The paper investigates how evolutionary and collective action theories frame the choice and change of environmental governance institutions and discusses how the notion of social capital can enrich institutional analyses. The paper concludes that the new institutional approach to the environment is particularly attractive for under-standing institutional or policy design and policy implementation.

Climate change is likely to have significant impacts on the agricultural sector to which farmers will have to adapt. While agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, it is also a source of carbon storage in soils. This report examines the economic and policy issues related to the impacts of climate change on agriculture and adaptation responses and to the mitigation of greenhouse gases from agriculture. It outlines research undertaken and underway in other national and international research agencies. It also highlights some of the knowledge gaps on the impacts of climate change on food production and the uncertainties of those impacts in a global context that warrant further research efforts. In particular, the report analyses marginal abatement cost curves, which show the relative costs of achieving reductions in greenhouse gas emission through the implementation of different actions in the agricultural sector. The aim of the report is to help guide policy makers in the design of policies to address climate change issues in agriculture.