ABSTRACT
The book discusses how to tackle long-term social and ecological problems by using different environmental governance approaches to creating sustainable development. It explores opportunities and requirements for the governance of long-term problems, and examines how to achieve a lasting transformation.
When investments are made to mitigate climate change or preserve biodiversity, future generations can reap benefits from the efforts of the present generation. However, long-term social-ecological change towards sustainable development is disrupted by the fact that the costs and benefits of action are seen by different generations. With a global focus that includes case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, this book attempts to address the difficulty of developing and implementing effective long-term governance solutions. The authors examine what distinguishes long‐term problems from other policy problems, what governance responses are available and used, and how different governance mechanisms, namely economic incentives, participation, as well as knowledge and learning, help to address them.
Combining the perspectives on the different governance approaches and featuring cases studies on national, regional and global issues, Long-Term Governance for Social-Ecological Change will be of interest to policy-makers, students and scholars of global environmental governance, development, sustainability, politics, economics, law and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|63 pages
Institutions and governance mechanisms
chapter 2|18 pages
The role of expertise in environmental governance
part 2|54 pages
Economics
chapter 7|19 pages
Innovation dynamics as lever for adaptive long-term policies
part 3|72 pages
Participation
chapter 8|13 pages
From interest consultation to collective knowledge production
chapter 9|18 pages
Potential and limits for businesses to address long-term social–ecological challenges
chapter 10|20 pages
Participation beyond the state
chapter 11|19 pages
Participatory scenarios in developing and implementing long-term policies
part 4|68 pages
Knowledge and learning