Managing Leviathan: Environmental Politics and the Administrative State, Second Edition

Edited by Robert Paehlke and Douglas Torgerson

Published: May 2005

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Page Count: 352 Pages

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

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352 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.71 in

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ISBN: 9781551115832

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition

Part I: The Environment as an Administrative Problem

1. Environmental Administration: Revising the Agenda of Inquiry and Practice
Douglas Torgerson and Robert Paehlke
2. Obsolescent Leviathan: Problems of Order in Administrative Thought
Douglas Torgerson
3. Democracy and Environmentalism: Opening a Door to the Administrative State?
Robert Paehlke

Part II: Techniques and Processes of Environmental Administration

4. Ecological Reason in Administration: Environmental Impact Assessment and Green Politics
Robert V. Bartlett
5. Environmental Regulation and Risk-Benefit Analysis: From Technical to Deliberative Policy Making
Frank Fischer
6. Designs for Environmental Discourse Revisited: A Greener Administrative State?
John S. Dryzek
7. The Ambivalence of Discourse: Beyond the Administrative Mind?
Douglas Torgerson

Part III: The Politics of Environmental Administration

8. Class, Place, and Citizenship: The Changing Dynamics of Environmental Protection
Ted Schrecker
9. We Just Don't Know: Lessons about Complexity and Uncertainty in Canadian Environmental Politics
Robert Gibson
10. Environmental Politics and Policy Professionalism: Agenda-Setting, Problem Definition, and Epistemology
Douglas Torgerson
11. Depoliticizing Environmental Politics: Sustainable Development in Norway
Ingerid S. Straume
12. Democratic Deliberation and Environmental Policy: Opportunities and Barriers in Britain
Graham Smith
13. Outside the State: Australian Green Politics and the Public Inquiry into Uranium
Timothy Doyle
14. Participation and Agency: Hybrid Identities in the European Quest for Sustainable Development
Andrew Jamison
15. Responses to Environmental Threats in an Age of Globalization
Jennifer Clapp
16. Green Governance and the Green State: Capacity Building as a Political Project
Peter Christoff

Conclusion

17. Environmental Politics and the Administrative State
Robert Paehlke and Douglas Torgerson

Index

This collection of writing goes to the heart of the fundamental structural challenge in environmental policy and management in modern developed societies. Anyone wishing to explore the cutting edge of environmental policy and management will find this book an invaluable tool.
The Honourable David Anderson, PC, Member of Parliament for Victoria, Minister of Environment, Government of Canada, 1999-2004

My well-thumbed first edition of Managing Leviathan has been an invaluable teaching and research aide. Its pages contain several of the wisest of insights into the complex links between structures of government and environment regarding policy and regulatory outcomes. Now my reliable old friend has been superseded by an updated version, one that retains all the strengths of the parent, whilst adding new contributions that are as important as they are timely. The new edition will be welcomed by all those who share my belief that, in the vexed times in which we live, there is a pressing need to overcome government's structural bias against environmental imperatives. Managing Leviathan points to ways through this long-standing impasse. It deals—brilliantly—with subjects of surpassing importance. For those in search of planetary solutions, this book is essential reading.
Peter Hay, University of Tasmania, Australia

This classic of environmental social and political theory has been thoroughly reworked to take Leviathan out of North America and put it into the world. On this broad canvas the argument that greater public involvement and integrated governance are the foundations of more effective and more legitimate environmental policy seem utterly convincing. I hope that politicians as well as academics read this book.
Andrew Dobson, author of Green Political Thought, The Open University, UK

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