Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management
Author | : Graham R. Marshall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781844070947 |
ISBN-13 | : 1844070948 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: * Includes lessons from Africa, Central America, North America and Asia, and detailed coverage of collaborative management in irrigated environments of Australia's Murray Darling Basin * Essential reading for economists, policy-makers, researchers, leaders, practitioners and students working in environmental and natural resource management Mainstream economics has a tight grip on public discourse, yet remains poorly equipped to comprehend the collaborative vision for managing environmental and resource commons. This ground-breaking book diagnoses the weaknesses of mainstream economics in analysing collaborative and other decentralized approaches to environmental management, and presents a unique operational approach to how collaborative environmental governance might be brought to fruition in a variety of contexts, whether in industrialized or developing countries. The result is a powerful, useful and badly needed approach to economics for collaborative environmental management of the commons.