Economics for collaborative environmental management : renegotiating the commons /

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"Mainstream economics has a tight grip on public discourse, yet remains poorly equipped to comprehend the collaborative vision for managing environmental and resource commons. This ground-breaking book diagnoses the weaknesses of mainstream economics in analysing collaborative and other decentr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marshall, Graham R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005.
Temas:
Environmental economics.
Natural resources > Management.
Économie de l'environnement.
Ressources naturelles > Gestion.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Environmental economics
Natural resources > Management
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 economics
  • Neoclassical 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 system
  • The 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 Australia's Murray Darling Basin
  • Study background and method
  • Study findings
  • Key lessons
  • Part IV. Grounding the collaborative vision
  • A strategy for research into collaborative environmental management
  • Countering scepticism with knowledge
  • 8. Myth, enlightenment and economics.

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