Jan Van Tatenhove

Political Modernisation and the Environment: The Renewal of Environmental Policy Arrangements - Environment & Policy Jan Van Tatenhove 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes: This reviewer was particularly impressed with the summary of the research conducted on the industrial complex of the Feldbach region, a study which included a material-flow analysis and an attempt to model the region using an industrial ecology approach.' Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 44(6):907-911 (2001) Table of Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. The Institutionalisation of Environmental Politics; J. van Tatenhove, P. Leroy. 2. Political Modernisation; J. van Tatenhove, et al. 3. Policy Arrangements; B. Arts, et al. 4. Dutch Infrastructure Policies: Changing and Contradictory Policy Arrangements; P. Pestman. 5. Nature Conservation Policy: Transboundary Arrangements; D. de Jong. 6. Global Environmental Policies: Between Interstatis' and Transnational' Arrangements; B. Arts. 7. Green Planning: From Sectoral to Integrative Planning Arrangements? J. Janssens, J. van Tatenhove. 8. Agricultural Policy Making in the Netherlands: Beyond Corporatist Policy Arrangements? J. Wisserhof. 9. Conclusions and Research Agenda: Political Modernisation and the Dynamics of Environmental Policy Arrangements; B. Arts, et al. Index. Publisher Marketing: Recent years have witnessed a substantial change in both the organisation and substance of environmental policy, both national and international. Western societies have seen a change in the relationships between the state, the market, and civil society, leading to new conceptions of governance, a process here called political modernisation that gives rise to the institutionalisation of new policy arrangements. An environmental policy arrangement refers to the organisation and substance of a policy domain in terms of policy coalitions, policy discourses, rules of the game, and resources. The book uses these theoretical notions to analyze changes in organisation, substance and governance in several environmental policy domains, such as infrastructure policies, global policies on climate change and biodiversity, green planning, and agriculture policy. Changing relationships between the state, the market and civil society, caused by processes of globalization, privatisation and individualisation, have resulted in a plurality of policy arrangements in different domains. Despite the fact that environmental politics has been substantially renewed, there is a delicate balance between traditional and new policy arrangements. One of the main themes of the book is the explanation of this balance.

Contributor Bio:  Arts, Bas Bas Arts is Chair of the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University. Contributor Bio:  Leroy, Pieter Pieter Leroy is a Professor of Political Sciences of the Environment, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.