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.
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.
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.
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.