This work explores the difficulties of solving contemporary environmental problems within existing global institutions. It questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports, and suggests new agendas for sustainability, industrial ecology, and institutional reform. Including case studies from the USA, Europe and China, this book investigates a wide range of environmental problems presently confronting experts worldwide.
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Introduction Institutional Change and expert thinking Finding the institutional rules Institutional distortion of water quality modelling in southern Colorado Network analysis of the controversy over irrigation-induced salinity and toxicity in central California Corporatism as na impediment to sutainable waste management in Finland Environmental management in China Principles of institutional reform Institutions of industrial ecology Experts in public