1st Edition

Institutions in Environmental Management Constructing Mental Models and Sustainability

By Janne Hukkinen Copyright 1999

    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 presently confronting experts worldwide.

    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