Krasnopolskiy B.Kh. - Environmental Government: USA Experience

Krasnopolskiy B.Kh.

Environmental Government: USA Experience / B.Kh. Krasnopolskiy ; executive editor P.A. Minakir ; Rus. Acad. Sci., Far-East. Branch, Econ. Research Inst. - Khabarovsk : RIOTIP, 2008. - 224 p.

The monograph presents a systematized experience of organizing state environmental management in the USA, covering all management levels and different sectors of the society's economic activity. Data are given on the structural-functional peculiarities of management systems, their legal support and institutional transformation in recent years. Information is presented on international standards of ecological management ISO 14000, as well as a Russian-English glossary of basic terminology in the field of nature use management and environmental control.

The monograph is designed for research workers, students, postgraduates, teachers, and managerial personnel.

Key words: natural resources use, state management, international standards, institutions, rental relations, Alaska, USA.

Contents

Preface ............................................................................	9
Introduction .....................................................................	12
Chapter 1. METODOLOGICAL AND METHODICAL APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT................................	15
1.1. Conceptions, methodical and terminological apparatus of the modern environmental management theories...................	17
1.2. International standards of environmental management............	31
Chapter 2. INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT.................................	49
2.1. International level......................................................	51
2.2. National level ...........................................................	60
2.3. Management by the economic sectors...............................	64
2.4. Regional aspect of management organization.....................	73
2.5. Municipal level of management.....................................	81
Chapter 3. INSTITUTIONAL FEATURES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ......................	89
3.1. System of governmental institutions and management............	91
3.2. Leading institutions in the executive branch of government....	92
3.3. Related institutions in the executive branch of government....	102
3.4. Municipal structures of management................................	114
3.5. Legislative and judicial branches of government.................	117
3.6. Organization of sustainable environmental stewardship management.......................................................	121
Chapter 4. BUSINESS AND PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ..............................	125
4.1. National environmental performance partnership system........	127
4.2. Partnership of government and private sector.....................	131
4.3. Public partnership......................................................	138
Chapter 5. REGIONAL FEATURES OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (on example of the State of Alaska)...................	145
5.1. Privatization of the land and natural resources.....................	147
5.2. Institutions of regional environmental management..............	151
5.3. Experience of environmental management at the base of the national corporations.....................................	157
5.4. Experience of the rent relations .....................................	163
5.5. Mechanisms to charge the royalties..................................	168
5.6. Permanent Fund management ........................................	172
Chapter 6. STIMULATION OF INNOVATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ...............................	181
6.1. Strategic innovations in improvement of environmental performance................................................	183
6.2. Institutional organization of innovations adoption..................	186
Conclusion .......................................................................	191
Glossary ..........................................................................	194
List of references..............................................................	215

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