Economics for collaborative environmental management : renegotiating the commons / Graham R. Marshall.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Marshall, Graham R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Environmental economics.
• Environmental economics--Evaluation.
• Environmental management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Earthscan Publications, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Marshall has re-grafted economics to the philosophical roots of collaborative environmental management, given stakeholders a pragmatic economics for 'bottom-up' conflict resolution and eliminated the need for 'top-down' economic experts. Beautifully reasoned and wonderfully practical!' RICHARD B. NORGAARD, ENERGY AND RESOURCES PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, US'If the potential of collaborative management is ever realized, it will owe a debt to this book. It provides a foundational economic theory of learning coming from complex adaptive systems thinking tested with field experie

Contents:

• Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management Renegotiating the Commons; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I The Collaborative Vision: Hopes and Frustrations; 1 Progress, Sustainability and Economics; Modernism and the Progressive vision; The Progressive vision and economics; A vision under siege; Economics and sustainable development; Bringing economics on board; Part II Theory and Method for an Economics of Collaborative Environmental Management
• 2 Collective Action in the Commons: The View from Mainstream EconomicsNeoclassical economics of the commons; Group size and voluntary collective action; Contributions from game theory; The message for public consumption; 3 Developments in Collective Action Theory for Commons Management; Commons management as an assurance problem; The problem of establishing trust; The role of formal organization; The challenge of collaboration; 4 An Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management; The comparative institutions approach to economic policy analysis
• The political economy as a mechanistic systemThe political economy as a complex adaptive system; Complexity and adaptive management: A role for economics?; A comparative institutions framework for adaptive environmental management; Barriers to adoption; Part III Lessons from the Field; 5 Challenges and Strategies for Collaborative Environmental Management: Insights from International Experience; Two core challenges; Core challenge 1: Matching tasks to levels; Core challenge 2: Ensuring complementarity in how tasks are conducted; Key lessons from the cases reviewed
• 6 From Antagonism to Trust: Collaborative Salinity Management in inStudy background and method; Study findings; Key lessons; Part IV Grounding the Collaborative Vision; 7 Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research; Implications for the policy and practice of collaborative environmental management; A strategy for research into collaborative environmental management; Countering scepticism with knowledge; 8 Myth, Enlightenment and Economics; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-136-56777-1
• 1423728386
• 1-280-47495-5
• 1-84977-104-9
• 600-00-0041-3
• 1-136-56778-X
• 1-4237-2838-6
• 9786610474950

OCLC:

466436783