Intro -- INSTITUTIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Constructing Mental Models and Sustainability -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Institutions and their analysis -- 2 Institutional change and expert thinking -- 3 Finding the institutional rules -- Part II Case studies on modern environmental management -- 4 Institutional distortion of water quality modelling in southern Colorado -- 5 Network analysis of the controversy over irrigation-induced salinity and toxicity in central California -- 6 Corporatism as an impediment to sustainable waste management in Finland -- 7 Environmental management in China -- Part III Institutional reform principles -- 8 Principles of institutional reform -- 9 Institutions of industrial ecology -- 10 Experts in public -- Appendix 1 : Examples of the codification of interview transcripts into issue and problem networks -- Appendix 2: Presentation of aggregated problem networks as Bayesian networks -- Bibliography -- Index.

This work explores the difficulties of solving contemporary environmental problems within existing global institutions. It questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports, and suggests new agendas for sustainability, industrial ecology, and institutional reform. Including case studies from the USA, Europe and China, this book investigates a wide range of environmental problems presently confronting experts worldwide.

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