Privatizing Environmental Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12754134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig N Murphy (0000-0002-1444-3473, Canadian Pharmacists Association, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 134-138 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1526-3800 • E-ISSN: 1536-0091 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/glep.2009.9.3.134 |
| OpenAlex | W2039035801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Many of today’s systems that regulate the environmental impact of households and arms grew out the work of national legislatures in the early 1970s. Tragically, perhaps, a global cultural shift began within a decade after this wave of legislatively sanctioned regulation; in the age of Thatcher, Reagan, and global neoliberalism, public regulation became anathema to powerful social forces and to many sitting governments. In lieu of national laws or international treaties, a variety of political entrepreneurs and associated interest groups began pushing for private, voluntary systems of environmental governance, as well as for public-private partnerships that might accomplish the kind of things that advocates of legal regulation had once demanded. The three volumes under review all provide empirical evaluations of different examples of such private environmental governance. Taken together, they paint a picture that is not hopeless; some well-designed private systems have been able to shift the basic way in which organizations think about and make decisions concerning their environmental impact. Nonetheless, these studies provide little evidence to suggest that private governance can ever substitute for public regulation. Two of these books are collected volumes. In Privatization and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations, Mansaeld and her colleagues apply the tools of critical geography to the analysis of a set of biosphere issues—agriculture, asheries, genetically modiaed crops, and water—in Canada, the United States, and the developing world. In Reality Check, Morgenstern and Pizer’s authors are primarily concerned with programs to reduce energy consumption or the release of
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |