Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80277 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CSERGE Working Paper EDM No. 05-01
Publisher: 
University of East Anglia, The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), Norwich
Abstract: 
This paper examines the conceptual revisions needed to extend the new institutional approach to environmental governance from its current local and international domains to new areas of application, such as national environmental and natural resource use policies. The article argues that environmental governance is best understood as the resolution of environmental conflicts through the establishment, reaffirmation or change of environmental governance institutions. This understanding suggests that the choice of environmental governance institutions is a matter of social justice rather than economic efficiency, demanding greater emphasis on public participation as the foundation of their political legitimacy. The paper also suggests a more encompassing way to understand environmental governance institutions to make space for state-centred governance solutions as types of formal collective ownership not unlike common property. The article demonstrates how institutional analysis can benefit from looking more closely at the three-tier structure, organization of generic governance functions and formulation of institutional rules as key aspects of the institutional design of governance solutions.
Subjects: 
environmental governance
environmental justice
interdependence
New institutional economics
property rights
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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