Managing Leviathan : Environmental Politics and the Administrative State, Second Edition / Robert Paehlke, Douglas Torgerson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paehlke, Robert, editor.

Torgerson, Douglas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Bureaucracy.

United States.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

xv, 351 p. ; 23 cm.

Edition:

2nd Edition

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bureaucracies, including large corporations and governmental agencies, are based on hierarchy and prone to secrecy. They encourage highly specialized forms of knowledge and structure themselves in compartmentalized ways. In stark contrast, environmental problems cut across all artificial divisions and boundaries. Managing Leviathan illustrates the nature of environmental problems from genetically modified crops to climate change, from urban sprawl to toxic chemicals to trace pharmaceuticals in our water supply. Understanding these problems, and how they might be resolved, requires that we transcend the divisions of government, economy, and knowledge. Solutions often also require the mobilization of citizen knowledge and values. Are governments and bureaucracies up to the complex task? How might they adapt to be better suited to meet the new environmental challenges that continuously arise? This extensively revised edition of Managing Leviathan expands from a North American to a global perspective and includes new articles on both European and Australian experiences as well as on transnational environmental issues. The overall pattern is remarkably clear: environmental administration demands integrative thinking and new forms of direct public involvement in governance.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition (1990)

part I: The Environmentas an Administrative Problem

1 Environmental Administration:Revising the Agenda of Inquiryand Practice

2 Obsolescent Leviathan: Problems of Order in Administrative Thought

3 Democracy and Environmentalism: Opening a Door to the Administrative State?

part II: Techniques and Processes of Environmental Administration

4 Ecological Reason in Administration: Environmental Impact Assessment and Green Politics

5 Environmental Regulation and Risk-Benefit Analysis: From Technical to Deliberative Policy Making6 Designs for Environmental Discourse Revisited: A Greener Administrative State?

7 The Ambivalence of Discourse: Beyond the Administrative Mind?

part III: The Politics of Environmental Administration

8 Class, Place, and Citizenship: The Changing Dynamics of Environmental Protection

9 We Just Don�t Know: Lessons about Complexity and Uncertainty in Canadian Environmental Politics

10 Environmental Politics and Policy Professionalism: Agenda Setting, Problem Definition, and Epistemology11 Depoliticizing Environmental Politics: Sustainable Development in Norway

12 Democratic Deliberation and Environmental Policy: Opportunities and Barriers in Britain

13 Outside the State: Australian Green Politics and the Public Inquiry into Uranium

14 Participation and Agency: Hybrid Identities in the European Quest for Sustainable Development

15 Responses to Environmental Threats in an Age of Globalization

16 Green Governance and the Green State: Capacity Building as a Political ProjectConclusion

17 Environmental Politics and the Administrative State

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-0228-7

OCLC:

1114842841