Institutional Diversity and Sustainable Environmental Management

Scalar, Cultural, and Functional Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-48809-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

Coordinated, well-functioning institutions are crucial for tackling environmental challenges like climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and resource overuse. This book presents case studies from around the world to showcase how different socio-political institutions interact to influence environmental management outcomes in complex, polycentric institutional settings. Collectively, the cases emphasize the importance of unpacking interactional complexity through an improved understanding of cross-scalar, cross-cultural, and cross-functional institutional interactions. By encouraging practitioners to reflect on these three dimensions, this book identifies key considerations for designing innovative institutional coordination mechanisms in support of sustainable environmental management.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rahman, H. M. Tuihedur

Pigford, Ashlee-Ann

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: The Increasing Relevance of Assessing Institutional Diversity in Sustainable Environmental Management. 2. Path-Dependent Pathways of Inter-Institutional Gaps in Natural Resource Management. 3. The Philippines’ Neoliberal Extractive Industry: Mining for Development, State Violence, and Inter-Institutional Gaps in Resource Governance. 4. Tiger Conservation Governance in the Bangladesh Sundarbans: Identifying Inter-Institutional Gaps. 5. Applying an Access Lens to Understand Equity in a Polycentric Governance Regime: Why Rights Alone May be Insufficient to Advance Indigenous Fishery Development. 6. Institutional Change Between the RastafarI Movement and the Formal State in Jamaica: A Historical Perspective. 7. Diversity in Institutional Strategies for Distributed Renewable Energy Generation: How American States are Designing Net Metering Policy. 8. Necessary but Not Sufficient: An Examination of Two Areas of Multilateral Environmental Institutions. 9. Enabling and Bridging Institutional Diversity Through Polycentric Governance Structures to Advance Sustainable Development: The Case Study of the Arctic Council. 10. Concluding Remarks: Characterizing Institutional Diversity for Improved Sustainable Environmental Management. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

H.M. Tuihedur Rahman, PhD is an environmental social scientist with expertise in environmental governance. His internationally focused multidisciplinary research intends to theorize institutional development and change in complex social-ecological systems.

Ashlee-Ann Pigford, PhD works at the intersection of governance, innovation and public value to inform strategic directions in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Her research bridges concepts from several disciplines to explore the factors that shape how knowledge is transformed and used by society.