Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management
The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. Transformational policy reforms involve fundamental shifts in strategy with far-reaching consequences for the structure of industries, the way people behave and the resources they use.
Transformational reforms typically involve a decision to change a suite of institutional arrangements that will result, within a short period of time, in a paradigm shift and the emergence of an approach that will be recognised as being totally different to the arrangements that were previously in place.
Transformational change is well established in business and can deliver outstanding results. In the world of policy development, however, many transformational policy reforms flounder. Unlike incremental policy reforms, they are often seen to be politically risky and prone to failure.
Using examples of success and failure, coupled with insights from practitioners and academics who have succeeded in getting transformational reforms implemented, this book presents a set of guidelines for excellence in the pursuit of transformational policy reforms. It includes detailed case studies from Australia, China, Europe, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the USA.
Mike Young was the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University, USA. He holds a Professorial Chair in Water and Environmental Policy at Adelaide University, Australia, and is an Honorary Professor at University College London, UK, and a Research Fellow at Duke Universitys Nicholas Institute for Sustainable Environmental Policy Solutions, USA.
Christine Esau is a journalist and research editor based in Australia, with a particular interest in compelling environmental dialogues.
Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management
Guidelines for policy excellence
Edited by Michael D. Young and Christine Esau
Community Innovations in Sustainable Land Management
Lessons from the field in Africa
Edited by Maxwell Mudhara, Saa Dittoh, Mohamed Sessay, William Critchley and Sabina Di Prima
The Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus
Challenges and an agenda for action
Edited by Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram
Mitigating Land Degradation and Improving Livelihoods
An integrated watershed approach
Edited by Feras Ziadat and Wondimu Bayu
Adaptive Cross-scalar Governance of Natural Resources
Edited by Grenville Barnes and Brian Child
The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus
Lessons from India for development
Edited by M. Dinesh Kumar, Nitin Bassi, A. Narayanamoorthy and M.V.K. Sivamohan
Gender Research in Natural Resource Management
Building capacities in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Malika Abdelali-Martini, Aden Aw-Hassan
Contested Forms of Governance in Marine Protected Areas
A study of co-management and adaptive co-management
Natalie Bown, Tim S. Gray and Selina M. Stead
Adaptive Collaborative Approaches in Natural Resource Management
Rethinking participation, learning and innovation
Edited by Hemant R. Ojha, Andy Hall and Rasheed Sulaiman V
Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa
From concept to practice
Edited by Laura Anne German, Jeremias Mowo, Tilahun Amede and Kenneth Masuki
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Title: Transformational change in environmental and natural resource
management : guidelines for policy excellence / edited by Michael D.
Young and Christine Esau.
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Identifiers: LCCN 2016013289 | ISBN 9781138884694 (hbk) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Environmental management. | Natural resources--
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Adam Banasiak works as a consultant with the Cadmus Group, San Francisco, USA.
Andrew Campbell was Director of the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Australia, and is now Director of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Australia.
Christine Esau is a freelance journalist, writer and editor in Adelaide, Australia.
Dustin Garrick was Philomathia Chair in Water Policy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and is now at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
R. Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics, ANU Public Policy Fellow, Fellow of the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy, and Editor in Chief of Policy Forum.net at The Australian National University, Australia.
Timothy Grant specialises in urban water policy research and is a dual masters student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Tufts School of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
Juliette Gundy is Senior Policy Analyst at the Privy Council Office, Ottawa, Canada.