Governing the Environment : The Transformation of Environmental Regulation / Marc Allen Eisner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisner, Marc Allen, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This comprehensive overview of US environmental regulation goes beyond traditional texts to consider alternatives to the existing regulatory regime, as well as the regulatory challenges.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

1 Environmental Protection and Governance: An Introduction

Part 1 Environmental Policy and Politics

2 A Primer on Environmental Protection

3 The Environmental Policy Subsystem

Part 2 The Evolution of Regulatory Design and Reform

4 Regulatory Design and Performance

5 Regulatory Reform or Reversal?

6 Reinventing Environmental Protection: Flexibility in an Iron Cage

7 Of Partnerships and Paralysis: Voluntarism and the End of Reform

Part 3 The Emerging System of Green Governance

8 From Greed to Green: Corporate Environmentalism and Manag

9 Green by Association: Code- and Standard-Based Self-Regulation

10 Public-Private Hybrids and Environmental Governance

Part 4 Regulating the Global Commons from the Bottom Up

11 Beyond the Tragedy of the Global Commons

12 From Montreal to Kyoto

13 Sustainable Development: Managing the Unmanageable

Part 5 Conclusion

14 Green Governance and the Future of Environmental Protection

List of Acronyms

Bibliography

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

1-68585-427-3

OCLC:

1334343724