The politics of contaminated sites management : institutional regime change and actors' mode of participation in the environmental management of the Bonfol Chemical Waste Landfill in Switzerland /: institutional regime change and actors' mode of participation in the environmental management of the Bonfol Chemical Waste Landfill in Switzerland. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Johann Dupuis, Peter Knoepfel.
• Authors: Dupuis, Johann; Knoepfel, Peter
• Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: The Problem and Politics of Contaminated Sites; References; Chapter 2: Institutions and the Environmental Management of Contaminated Sites: A Theoretical Framework; 2.1 A Critical Perspective on Rational Choice Institutionalism; 2.2 A Socio-legal Reading of Institutions; 2.3 The Theoretical Puzzle: The Management of Contaminated Sites in the Era of Governance; 2.4 A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Politics of Contaminated Sites; 2.4.1 The Institutional Regime of Contaminated Sites. 2.4.1.1 Extent2.4.1.2 Coherence; 2.4.1.3 Strictness/Flexibility; 2.4.1.4 Research Hypotheses on the Effect of the Institutional Regime on Environmental Management Outcomes; 2.4.2 The Decision-Making Process in Contaminated Sites Management: Actor Games, Resources, Rules, and Modes of Participation and Interaction; 2.4.2.1 Actor Games: The Confrontation of Values and Interests; 2.4.2.2 The Power of Resources; 2.4.2.3 Rules Compliance and Rules Alteration. 2.4.2.4 Actors' Mode of Participation and Interaction in Decision-Making: The Traditional, the Market, the Corporatist, and the Network Models2.4.2.5 Research Hypotheses on the Effect of the Modes of Participation and Interaction in Decision-Making; 2.5 Measuring the Environmental Outcomes of Contaminated Sites Management; 2.6 Summary of the Theoretical Approach; References; Chapter 3: Environmental Management and Contaminated Sites in Switzerland; 3.1 The Extent of the Problem of Contaminated Sites in Switzerland; 3.2 Institutional Regimes and Environmental Management in Switzerland. 3.2.1 General Features of Public Environmental Regulations3.2.2 The Procedural Rules to Participation and Interaction in Environmental Management Processes; 3.2.2.1 Intergovernmental Relations: Executive Federalism and Polycentrism; 3.2.2.2 Public-Private Relations I: The Cooperation Principle; 3.2.2.3 Public-Private Relations II: The Causality Principle and the Liability for Environmental Harm; 3.2.2.4 Public-Civil Society Relations: Semi-direct Democracy and Civil Society Rights to Participate in Environmental Decision-Making; 3.3 Conclusion: The "Swiss Model" of Environmental Management.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 159 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 628.4/2; Environment; Hazardous waste sites -- Switzerland; Environmental policy -- Switzerland; Hazardous waste site remediation -- Switzerland; Environmental management; Comparative politics; Environmental law; Political science; Waste disposal; Sustainable development; Environmental policy; Hazardous waste site remediation; Hazardous waste sites; Political Science -- General; Law -- Environmental; Science -- Environmental Science; Comparative politics; Environment law; Political science & theory; Waste management; Sustainability; Technology & Engineering -- Environmental -- General; Environmental management; Switzerland; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319113074; 3319113070
• Related ISBNs: 9783319113067; 3319113062
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 1, 2014).
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