| Abstrakt: |
This article presents information on the book "Institutions in Environmental Management," by Janne Hukkinen. This book explores the complexities of solving contemporary environmental problems within existing institutions questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports, and suggests new agendas for sustainability, industrial ecology and institutional reform. Including case studies from the U.S., Europe and China, this book investigates a wide range of environmental problems presently confronting experts worldwide. Drawing on in depth thematic interviews with environmental decision makers, the author analyses the problems with which these individuals are grappling and explains the mental models, which they form to authorize and rationalize their decisions. Such mental models are seen to reinforce existing environmental institutions and policies, blocking beneficial institutional changes, limiting the range of policy options that experts perceive to be at their disposal, and constraining new agendas, which might tackle long-term environmental problems. |
