The politics of contaminated sites management institutional regime change and actors' mode of participation in the environmental management of the Bonfol Chemical Waste Landfill in Switzerland /
By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting industrialized countries. The authors show that small and prosperous Switzerland is no exception to the pervasive problem of sites contamination, the legacy of past practices...
| Main Author: | Dupuis, Johann, |
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| Other Authors: | Knoepfel, Peter,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer,
[2014]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xix, 159 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: The Problem and Politics of Contaminated Sites; References; Chapter 2: Institutions and the Environmental Management of Contaminated Sites: A Theoretical Framework; 2.1 A Critical Perspective on Rational Choice Institutionalism; 2.2 A Socio-legal Reading of Institutions; 2.3 The Theoretical Puzzle: The Management of Contaminated Sites in the Era of Governance; 2.4 A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Politics of Contaminated Sites; 2.4.1 The Institutional Regime of Contaminated Sites.
- 2.4.1.1 Extent2.4.1.2 Coherence; 2.4.1.3 Strictness/Flexibility; 2.4.1.4 Research Hypotheses on the Effect of the Institutional Regime on Environmental Management Outcomes; 2.4.2 The Decision-Making Process in Contaminated Sites Management: Actor Games, Resources, Rules, and Modes of Participation and Interaction; 2.4.2.1 Actor Games: The Confrontation of Values and Interests; 2.4.2.2 The Power of Resources; 2.4.2.3 Rules Compliance and Rules Alteration.
- 2.4.2.4 Actors' Mode of Participation and Interaction in Decision-Making: The Traditional, the Market, the Corporatist, and the Network Models2.4.2.5 Research Hypotheses on the Effect of the Modes of Participation and Interaction in Decision-Making; 2.5 Measuring the Environmental Outcomes of Contaminated Sites Management; 2.6 Summary of the Theoretical Approach; References; Chapter 3: Environmental Management and Contaminated Sites in Switzerland; 3.1 The Extent of the Problem of Contaminated Sites in Switzerland; 3.2 Institutional Regimes and Environmental Management in Switzerland.
- 3.2.1 General Features of Public Environmental Regulations3.2.2 The Procedural Rules to Participation and Interaction in Environmental Management Processes; 3.2.2.1 Intergovernmental Relations: Executive Federalism and Polycentrism; 3.2.2.2 Public-Private Relations I: The Cooperation Principle; 3.2.2.3 Public-Private Relations II: The Causality Principle and the Liability for Environmental Harm; 3.2.2.4 Public-Civil Society Relations: Semi-direct Democracy and Civil Society Rights to Participate in Environmental Decision-Making; 3.3 Conclusion: The "Swiss Model" of Environmental Management.