Environmental Integration

Our Common Challenge

By Ton Bührs

Subjects: Environmental Politics, Management, Public Policy, Public Administration
Paperback : 9781438426082, 290 pages, January 2010
Hardcover : 9781438426075, 290 pages, May 2009

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Table of contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Making Sense of Environmental Integration
Introduction
What is Environmental Integration?
Forms of Environmental Integration
Conclusion
2. Cognitive-External Integration
Introduction
Environmental Impact Assessment
Cost-Benefi t Analysis
Risk Assessment
Integrated Environmental Assessment
Conclusion
3. Cognitive-Internal Integration
Introduction
Sustainable Development
Ecological Modernization
Environmental Space
(Eco)systems Thinking and Theory
Conclusion
4. Policy-External Integration
Introduction
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Sustainability Assessment
Economic Instruments
Voluntary Agreements
Conclusion
5. Policy-Internal Integration
Introduction
Limited Forms of Policy-Internal Integration
What is Green Planning?
The Emergence and Spread of Green Planning
The Support Basis for Green Planning: The Netherlands, Canada and Australia
Green Planning and the Politics of Interpretation
Conclusion
6. Institutional-External Integration
Introduction
The Greening of Government
The Greening of Economic Institutions
The Greening of Economic Institutions: Limits and Obstacles
Conclusion
7. Institutional-Internal Integration
Introduction
The Integration of Environmental Institutions
The Institutionalization of Environmental Rights and Duties
The Institutionalization of Integrative Principles
Agents of Integration: National Councils for Sustainable Development
Conclusion
8. Improving Environmental Integration
Introduction
Revisiting Existing Approaches to and Forms of Environmental Integration
Enhancing Integration: Forms and Approaches
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

A new and original way of looking at the challenge presented by environmental issues.

Description

The environmental challenges facing humankind can most effectively be met through environmental integration—incorporating environmental considerations into everyday human thinking, behavior, and practices, at both the individual and collective levels. Increasingly people and organizations throughout the world are taking the environment into account, but at the same time there is insufficient integration of attitudes, policies, and programs. People and groups have different, and often conflicting, views and interpretations of what is desirable or required to protect the environment. Environmental Integration looks at the ways that governments can play a crucial role in advancing, promoting, and shaping a singular, integrated environmental policy.

Ton Bührs is Senior Lecturer of Environmental Policy at Lincoln University in New Zealand and coauthor (with Robert V. Bartlett) of Environmental Policy in New Zealand: The Politics of Clean and Green?

Reviews

"Bührs offers a highly original and provocative approach to a hugely important topic and area of public policy, academic inquiry, industrial activity, and human endeavor. Most of the key literature and analytical approaches generated in the developed world over the past four decades are engaged, and thus the book will likely be taken up quite widely in the academic world. " — Glen Toner, editor of Innovation, Science, Environment: Canadian Policies and Performance, 2008–2009