On Environmental Governance

Oran R. Young is Professor of Institutional and International Governance and Environmental Institutions at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of numerous books including, most recently, Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (MIT Press 2010), and was the founding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change within the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.

"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 Political Science at Indiana University--Bloomington"In this elegant and powerful book--the distillation of a lifetime of brilliant theory combined with a lifetime of empirical experience--Oran Young presents humanity the key to continuing our civilization and avoiding the planetary disasters a failure of environmental governance will otherwise bring."-- Durwood Zaelke, President, the Institute on Governance for Sustainable Development"I consider this concise volume the most insightful and illuminating account of the subject of environmental governance for a globalized world. The conversational style brings clarity to subtle distinctions and connections between and among the many complex concepts in the field. It undoubtedly serves as a toolkit of huge importance to analysis and praxis of the daunting challenges facing China, a major variable contributing to the Great Acceleration in the age of Anthropocene."-- Ye Qi, Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Climate Policy Initiative at Tsinghua University--Beijing

• Introduction: Governing Human-Environment RelationsPart I: Simple Environmental GovernanceChapter 1 Natural ResourcesChapter 2 Environmental ProtectionChapter 3 Ecosystem ServicesPart II: Complex Environmental GovernanceChapter 4 Horizontal InterplayChapter 5 Vertical InterplayPart III: Environmental Governance in the AnthropoceneChapter 6 The Great AccelerationChapter 7 The Sustainability TransitionConclusion: Making Environmental Governance Work