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- Title
Sugaring off: enduring insights from long-term research on environmental governance.
- Authors
Young, Oran
- Abstract
This article presents the results of an effort to identify the most important contributions I have been able to make in the course of a lifetime of thinking about the roles that social institutions play in governing human-environment relations. Some of the resultant propositions are general in the sense that they apply to environmental governance at all levels of social organization. Others are specific to the international level or to what we generally think of as international environmental governance. The basic message is that institutions are important determinants of human-environment relations but that they typically operate in conjunction with a variety of other drivers in a pattern best described as complex causation. As we move deeper into the Anthropocene, an era characterized by human domination of biophysical systems, the need to improve our understanding of environmental governance has become increasingly urgent.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL policy; SOCIAL institutions; SOCIAL structure; MAPLE syrup; MAPLE
- Publication
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law & Economics, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
1567-9764
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10784-012-9204-z