On Environmental Governance Sustainability, Efficiency, and Equity [Paperback]

In On Environmental Governance,Oran R. Young examines a variety of efforts to meet the challenge of governing human interaction with the environment in the interest of sustainability. At the same time, he considers measures to minimize restrictions on human actors in using their natural resources. Young looks at issues including climate change, biodiversity, deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and carbon cycle disruption in exploring impacts from the local to the global. The book draws on general ideas about the nature of governance while exploring new models for governing human-environment relations.

Valuable for research libraries, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students interested in managing environmental problems. Recommended.
-- CHOICE

As a scholar who has conducted extensive research on environmental governance for multiple decades, I found Oran Young's new book outstanding. He covers all of the key issues involved in environmental governance at multiple scales using an intriguing and cumulative approach. I strongly recommend this book...
-- the late Elinor Ostrom,Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor and Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Pol#(