TY - BOOK AU - Breton,Albert ED - Edward Elgar Publishing. TI - Governing the environment: salient institutional issues T2 - New horizons in environmental economics SN - 9781849801911 (e-book) AV - HC79.E5 G666 2009 U1 - 363.7 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cheltenham, Northampton, Mass. PB - Edward Elgar KW - Environmental policy KW - Environmental economics KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Institutions : alternative solutions to the problem of assigning powers over the environment -- pt. 2. Issues in environmental governance : the comparative advantage of different levels of government N2 - This book examines how different countries define and address environmental issues, specifically in relation to intergovernmental relations: the creation of institutions, the assignment of powers, and the success of alternative solutions. It also investigates whether a systemic view of the environment has influenced the policy-making process. The broad perspective adopted includes a detailed analysis of seventeen countries in six continents by scholars from a range of disciplines - economics, political science, environmental science and law - thus producing novel material that moves away from the conventional treatment of decentralisation and the environment in economic literature UR - https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781847203977.xml ER -