Governing the Environment

Edited by Albert Breton, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada, Giorgio Brosio, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin, Italy, Silvana Dalmazzone, Assistant Professor of Economic Policy, University of Turin, Italy and Giovanna Garrone, Research Fellow, University of Turin, Italy

• Contents:Preface1. IntroductionAlbert Breton, Giorgio Brosio, Silvana Dalmazzone and Giovanna GarronePART I: INSTITUTIONS: ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF ASSIGNING POWERS OVER THE ENVIRONMENT 2. Contracts in the Vertical Assignment of Powers Over the EnvironmentAnthony Scott 3. Privatization and Environmental Governance Marcia Valiante 4. The Contribution of Community Institutions to Environmental Problem-SolvingElinor Ostrom 5. Bicameralism and Environmental LegislationGiorgio Brosio6. Fashioning Entitlements: A Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of the Judicial Role in Environmental Centralization in the United States and EuropeJason Scott Johnston and Michael G. Faure 7. Compliance in Decentralized Environmental GovernanceAlbert Breton and Pierre Salmon PART II: ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: THE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT8. Environmental Federalism with Regards to Accidental PollutionKlaas T. van ’t Veld and Jason F. Shogren9. Losing the Lands of Plenty? Time Scale and Discounting in Environmental GovernanceSarah Lumley10. Environmental Accounting at Different Levels of Government: The State of the ArtSilvana Dalmazzone and Alessandra La NotteIndex

'This volume - the second by this editorial team - addresses many of the issues to be resolved if we are to manage environmental public goods efficiently and sustainably. What is the right scale of governance? What makes for effective public-private partnership? What makes governance systems effective? When do we need supranational governance? Given the complex nature of social-ecological systems these are hard questions. Breton and his collaborators answer them in ways that are both convincing and insightful. A very valuable contribution.'