Environmental Integration

Ton Bührs

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.
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

Sujets

• National
• Central

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 09 avril 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438426334
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Environmental Integration OUR COMMON CHALLENGE

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Envîronmenta Integratîon

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Bührs, Ton.  Envîronmenta întegratîon : our common chaenge / Ton Bührs.  p. cm.  Incudes bîbîographîca references and îndex.  ISBN 978-1-4384-2607-5 (hardcover : ak. paper)  1. Poîtîca ecoogy. 2. Envîronmenta poîcy. 3. Envîronmenta poîcy— Economîc aspects. 4. Sustaînabe deveopment. 5. Sustaînabe îvîng. I. Tîte.  JA75.8.B82 2009  333.7—dc22 2008035107

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To Panet Earth

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Introductîon

Contents

Chapter 1—Makîng Sense of Envîronmenta Integratîon  Introductîon  What îs Envîronmenta Integratîon?  Forms of Envîronmenta Integratîon  Concusîon

Chapter 2—Cognîtîve-Externa Integratîon  Introductîon  Envîronmenta Impact Assessment  Cost-Beneit Anaysîs  Rîsk Assessment  Integrated Envîronmenta Assessment  Concusîon

Chapter 3—Cognîtîve-Interna Integratîon  Introductîon  Sustaînabe Deveopment  Ecoogîca Modernîzatîon  Envîronmenta Space  Eco(systems) Thînkîng and Theory  Concusîon

Chapter 4—Poîcy-Externa Integratîon  Introductîon  Strategîc Envîronmenta Assessment  Sustaînabîîty Assessment

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Economîc Instruments Vountary Agreements Concusîon

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Chapter 5—Poîcy-Interna Integratîon  Introductîon  Lîmîted Forms of Poîcy-Interna Integratîon  What îs Green Pannîng?  The Emergence and Spread of Green Pannîng  The Support Basîs for Green Pannîng: The Netherands,  Canada and Austraîa  Green Pannîng and the Poîtîcs of Interpretatîon  Concusîon

Chapter 6—Instîtutîona-Externa Integratîon  Introductîon  The Greenîng of Government  The Greenîng of Economîc Instîtutîons  The Greenîng of Economîc Instîtutîons: Lîmîts and Obstaces  Concusîon

Chapter 7—Instîtutîona-Interna Integratîon  Introductîon  The Integratîon of Envîronmenta Instîtutîons  The Instîtutîonaîzatîon of Envîronmenta Rîghts and Dutîes  The Instîtutîonaîzatîon of Integratîve Prîncîpes  Agents of Integratîon: Natîona Councîs for Sustaînabe  Deveopment  Concusîon

Chapter 8—Improvîng Envîronmenta Integratîon  Introductîon  Revîsîtîng Exîstîng Approaches to and Forms of  Envîronmenta Integratîon  Enhancîng Integratîon: Forms and Approaches  Concusîon

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