1st Edition

Institutions in Environmental Management Constructing Mental Models and Sustainability

By Janne Hukkinen Copyright 1999
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This work explores the difficulties of solving contemporary environmental problems within existing global institutions. It questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports, and suggests new agendas for sustainability, industrial ecology, and institutional reform. Including case studies from the USA, Europe and China, this book investigates a wide range of environmental problems... Read more
Introduction
Institutional Change and expert thinking
Finding the institutional rules
Institutional distortion of water quality modelling in southern Colorado
Network analysis of the controversy over irrigation-induced salinity and toxicity in central California
Corporatism as na impediment to sutainable waste management in Finland
Environmental management in China
Principles of institutional reform
Institutions of industrial ecology
Experts in public

Biography

Janne Hukkinen