Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management : Renegotiating the Commons.

Graham. Marshall
Bok · Engelsk · 2005 · Electronic books.

Omfang	1 online resource (183 pages)
Opplysninger	Intro -- Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management Renegotiating the Commons -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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 in -- Study background and method.. - Study findings -- Key lessons -- Part IV Grounding the Collaborative Vision -- 7 Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research -- Implications for the policy and practice of collaborative environmental management -- A strategy for research into collaborative environmental management -- Countering scepticism with knowledge -- 8 Myth, Enlightenment and Economics -- Notes -- References -- Index.. - 'Marshall has re-grafted economics to the philosophical roots of collaborative environmental management, given stakeholders a pragmatic economics for 'bottom-up' conflict resolution and eliminated the need for 'top-down' economic experts. Beautifully reasoned and wonderfully practical!' RICHARD B. NORGAARD, ENERGY AND RESOURCES PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, US 'If the potential of collaborative management is ever realized, it will owe a debt to this book. It provides a foundational economic theory of learning coming from complex adaptive systems thinking tested with field experience' ALLAN SCHMID, UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, US 'Marshall argues that mainstream economics, captive as it is of the prisoner's dilemma and the dangers of free-riding, is in a blind alley when it comes to contributing to constructive debate on governance of the commons. This is a significant book, which draws on the new institutional economics to indicate a productive way in which economists could contribute to thinking on common property natural resource management' WARREN MUSGRAVE, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND, AUSTRALIA 'Economic thought and emerging collaborative environmental governance are important areas of thought and application, but are mostly found at great distance from each other and very often in conflict. Marshall not only clearly demonstrates why this is so, he goes on to detail an alternative pathway that can strengthen both of these fields in both their theory and practice. This is a most impressive feat, and this is a book thoroughly deserving a very wide readership' STEPHEN DOVERS, SENIOR FELLOW, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 'A valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on voluntary collective action. - that demonstrates how processes can be designed to produce trust amongst stakeholders. Marshall anchors theory in the common property resource governance literature that has challenged orthodox economics for the last 25 years and offers the prospect of productive relationships between users, bureaucrats and funders' MARK SPROULE-JONES, V. K. COPPS PROFESSOR, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, CANADA 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 decentralized approaches to environmental management, and presents a unique operational approach to how collaborative environmental governance might be brought to fruition in a variety of contexts, whether in industrialized or developing countries. The result is a powerful, useful and badly needed approach to economics for collaborative environmental management of the commons.
Emner	Environmental economics -- Evaluation. Environmental economics. Environmental management.
Sjanger	Electronic books.
Dewey	338.927
ISBN	9781849771047
ISBN(galt)	9781844070947