ABSTRACT
We are currently in a phase that can be characterized as a transition to more collaborative environmental management, brought about by the forces that we discussed in Chapter 3 (governance, mainstreaming of sustainability, globalization, and the decentralization of environmental research and education). If a transition to radically new forms of environmental management does take place, we will no longer think of it in disaggregated terms, in which government, civil society and industry maintain their own visions of its theory and practice. We have not reached that point yet; we are still in an era in which each of the sectors yields examples of leading and lagging practice. Let’s consider examples of the current state of the art of alternative environmental management, respectively in industry, civil society and government.
