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Arthur P.j. Mol - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Urban Environmental Governance innovations in China
    Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2009
    Co-Authors: Arthur P.j. Mol
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    China's system of Environmental Governance is changing rapidly, resulting in new Environmental institutions and practices. State authorities rule increasingly via laws and decentralise Environmental policymaking and implementation. Non-state actors – both private companies and (organised) citizens – are given and taking more responsibilities and tasks in Environmental Governance. This results in new relations between state, market and civil society in Environmental Governance, with more emphasis on efficiency, accountability and legitimacy. The diffusion of these Governance innovations throughout China as well as their Environmental effectiveness will be focal points for future research.

  • China's Environmental Governance in transition
    Environmental Politics, 2006
    Co-Authors: Arthur P.j. Mol, Neil Carter
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    Abstract In the face of unprecedented economic and industrial growth levels, China is rapidly developing its system of Environmental Governance. Coming from a conventional command-and-control approach to Environmental policy, which fitted well its centrally planned economy, transitional China is swiftly reforming and diversifying its Environmental approaches, instruments, arrangements and legal regulations. This article aims to grasp and assess the direction, extent and speed of change in China's Environmental Governance. New relations between state, market and civil society, and an opening up towards the outside world characterise new modes of Environmental Governance that try to turn China's development path in more sustainable directions.

  • Special Issue Environmental Governance in China
    2006
    Co-Authors: N.t. Carter, Arthur P.j. Mol
    Abstract:

    In the face of unprecedented economic and industrial growth levels, China is rapidly developing its system of Environmental Governance. Coming from a conventional command-and-control approach to Environmental policy, which fitted well its centrally planned economy, transitional China is swiftly reforming and diversifying its Environmental approaches, instruments, arrangements and legal regulations. This article aims to grasp and assess the direction, extent and speed of change in China's Environmental Governance. New relations between state, market and civil society, and an opening up towards the outside world characterise new modes of Environmental Governance that try to turn China's development path in more sustainable directions.

  • Globalization and the Transformation of Environmental Governance An Introduction
    American Behavioral Scientist, 2002
    Co-Authors: David A. Sonnenfeld, Arthur P.j. Mol
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    In this introduction, the editors suggest a framework for the study of globalization and Environmental Governance, review important contemporary developments in supranational Environmental Governance, and introduce individual contributions to the special issue. Held, McGrew, Goldblatt, and Perraton's distinction between hyperglobalist, skeptical, and transformationalist perspectives on dynamics of globalization is useful in the study of the transformations in Environmental Governance around the world today. Three important innovations are examined: the development of supranational Environmental institutions, increased use of market-based regulatory instruments, and the rise of global civil society involvement. Emergent transformations in global Environmental Governance are not inevitable, and neither are they sufficient for sustainability. Rather, they are constantly threatened by the interests and actions of economic actors and constrained as well by politics, geography, and global inequality. Persistent efforts by interested parties are required to retain salience, maintain momentum, and extend effectiveness of the new forms of Environmental Governance.

Huang Ai-bao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Global Environmental Governance and Ecological Government Construction
    Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University, 2008
    Co-Authors: Huang Ai-bao
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    Developing multiple environment actors in the world and constructing global environment cooperation mechanism are an urgent demand to cope with and solve the global Environmental issues.The growth and participation of non-governmental actors as well as the establishment and implementation of cooperation regulations in the global Environmental Governance have to rely on the support and propel from the ecological government.The rising of non-governmental actors implementing effective global Environmental Governance will promote the function transformation in the ecological government because its democratic responsibility model requires the democracy and progress in the ecological government,while the sovereign interference from the powerful states which distort global Environmental Governance will seriously block the self-development of ecological government.

Scott Frickel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Understanding Environmental Governance A Critical Review
    Organization & Environment, 2004
    Co-Authors: Debra J. Davidson, Scott Frickel
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    This article presents an historical sketch of the insights and applications provided by social science scholars on Environmental Governance. The authors begin with a review of the conceptual developments during the past 50 years characterized in terms of six conceptual perspectives: pluralism, agency capture, ecological Marxism, ecological modernization, social constructionism, and global Environmentalism. This section is followed by an empirical analysis of academic journal coverage of research on Environmental Governance from 1963 to 2001 listed in the database Sociological Abstracts. The authors conclude that an understanding of the potential for Environmental improvement could be advanced by the treatment of works that fall within the conceptual typology described herein, as a cumulative body of interdisciplinary knowledge. Advancements in this area could, furthermore, be facilitated through a broadening of empirical and methodological treatment of Environmental Governance and a greater attention to m...

R. Beunen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Rethinking strategy in Environmental Governance
    Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2020
    Co-Authors: Kristof Van Assche, R. Beunen, Monica Gruezmacher, Martijn Duineveld
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    This paper presents a novel framework for analyzing the formation and effects of strategies in Environmental Governance. It combines elements of management studies, strategy as practice thinking, s...

  • Institutional work in Environmental Governance
    Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2019
    Co-Authors: James Patterson, R. Beunen
    Abstract:

    In this Special Issue, we interrogate and evaluate the concept of institutional work in the domain of Environmental Governance, by bringing together diverse papers spanning a range of substantive and theoretical approaches. The papers apply the concept of institutional work across fields of regional development, water Governance, climate change adaptation, and urban planning, and disciplines of planning, sociology, political science, geography, and anthropology. As a whole, the Special Issue contributes to a growing body of literature exploring the role of agency in processes of institutional change. This has implications for Environmental Governance scholarship, which emphasises the role of institutions across all scales from local to global and to understanding transformations in Governance systems within which institutional change plays a central role.

Philipp Pattberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Theorising Global Environmental Governance: Key Findings and Future Questions
    Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2015
    Co-Authors: Philipp Pattberg, Oscar Widerberg
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    Global Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene is fundamentally different from older conceptions of Environmental policy-making and sustainable development. Environmental problem-solving is no longer concerned with isolated problems, but rather with reorganising the overall relation between humans and natural systems. Empirically, this is reflected in the ever greater attention to questions of institutional interactions (e.g. between the issue areas of economics and environment) and functional overlaps between parallel Governance approaches. Normatively, Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene is concerned with questions of equity and fairness on a finite planet. This article scrutinises the theoretical interregnum in global Environmental Governance by first sketching the key empirical trends in global Environmental Governance; secondly, discussing theory-building with regards to four broad areas of inquiry: the questions of agency and authority; the structural dimension of global Environmental ...

  • Global Environmental Governance: Taking Stock, Moving Forward
    Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2008
    Co-Authors: Frank Biermann, Philipp Pattberg
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    This article provides a focused review of the current literature on global Environmental Governance. In the first part, we differentiate between three usages of the term “global Environmental Governance,” which we describe as analytical, programmatic, and critical. In the second part, we highlight three key characteristics of global Environmental Governance that make it different, in our view, from traditional international Environmental politics: first, the emergence of new types of agency and of actors in addition to national governments, the traditional core actors in international Environmental politics; second, the emergence of new mechanisms and institutions of global Environmental Governance that go beyond traditional forms of state-led, treaty-based regimes; and third, increasing segmentation and fragmentation of the overall Governance system across levels and functional spheres. In the last section, we present an outlook on future study needs in this field.