State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance

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Contents Series Foreword vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance 1 Andreas Duit I Understanding Environmental Performance 25 2 Comparing Environmental Performance 27 James Meadowcroft 3 Explaining Environmental Policy Adoption: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Developments in Twenty-Four OECD Countries 53 Christoph Knill, Susumu Shikano, and Jale Tosun 4 The Three Worlds of Environmental Politics 81 Detlef Jahn 5 Wind-Power Development in Germany and the United States: Structural Factors, Multiple-Stream Convergence, and Turning Points 111 Roger Karapin II Environmental Governance and Citizenship from a Comparative Perspective 147 6 Early Bird or Copycat, Leader or Laggard? A Comparison of Cross-National Patterns of Environmental Policy Change 149 Thomas Sommerer vi Contents 7 The Role of the State in the Governance of Sustainable Development: Subnational Practices in European States 179 Susan Baker and Katarina Eckerberg 8 Sustainable Citizenship: The Role of Citizens and Consumers as Agents of the Environmental State 203 Michele Micheletti, Dietlind Stolle, and Daniel Berlin III Natural Resource Management in a Comparative Perspective 237 9 Decentralization and Deforestation: Comparing Local Forest Governance Regimes in Latin America 239 Krister Andersson, Tom Evans, Clark C. Gibson, and Glenn Wright 10 Enforcement and Compliance in African Fisheries: The Dynamic Interaction between Ruler and Ruled 265 Martin Sjöstedt 11 Causes and Consequences of Stakeholder Participation in Natural Resource Management: Evidence from 143 Biosphere Reserves in FiftyFive Countries 293 Andreas Duit and Ola Hall 12 Conclusion: An Emerging Ecostate? 321 Andreas Duit Appendix to Chapter 8 343 List of Contributors 349 Index 353 ...