Governing the Environment: Salient Institutional Issues

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Albert Breton
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2009 - Political Science - 320 pages
This volume the second by this editorial team addresses many of the issues to be resolved if we are to manage environmental public goods efficiently and sustainably. What is the right scale of governance?
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Contracts in the vertical assignment of powers over the environment
13
Privatization and environmental governance
43
The contribution of community institutions to environmental problemsolving
87
Bicameralism and environmental legislation
113
Fashioning entitlements a comparative law and economic analysis of the judicial role in environmental centralization in the United States and Europe
138
Compliance in decentralized environmental governance
174
Environmental federalism with regards to accidental pollution
211
Losing the lands of plenty? Time scale and discounting in environmental governance
235
Environmental accounting at different levels of government the state of the art
266
Index
291
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Edited by Albert Breton, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada, Giorgio Brosio, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin, Italy, Silvana Dalmazzone, Assistant Professor of Economic Policy, University of Turin, Italy and Giovanna Garrone, Research Fellow, University of Turin, Italy

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