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Front matter
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Title page, contents, foreword
Chapter 1: Environmental governance. Whose voice? Whose choice?
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How we decide and who gets to decide often determines what we decide.
Chapter 2: Environmental governance today
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More often than not, human institutions still fail to make environmental decisions that work for both people and ecosystems.
Chapter 3: Public participation and access
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In 2001-2002, a global coalition of 25 civil society groups called The Access Initiative measured the public's ability to participate in decisions about the environment. The findings are summarized here.
Chapter 4: Awakening civil society
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Governments and businesses no longer have a monopoly on environmental decision-making. A third force -- civil society -- is changing the power balance.
Chapter 5: Decentralization - A local voice
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Decentralization -- the steps that many central governments are taking to give regional, municipal, and local institutions responsibility for some public sector functions -- is an important development in environmental governance.
Chapter 6: Driving business accountability
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Business transparency and accountability are prerequisites for better environmental governance. Public disclosure is the face of a new and more participatory approach to regulating the environmental performance of businesses.
Chapter 7: International environmental governance
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The need for a coherent system of international environmental governance is clear. But constructing such a system, and maintaining its effectiveness in the face of the many competing interests of nations, has proven exceedingly difficult.
Chapter 8: A world of decisions - Case studies
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These case studies explore why it is so difficult to make inclusive and effective decisions about ecosystem use. But they also demonstrate the infinite human creativity, adaptation, and experimentation that can bring success.
Chapter 9: Toward a better balance
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Balance means making environmental decisions that foster ecosystem health, treat people fairly, and make economic sense. Global environmental trends show that we have yet to find this balance. How do we move toward a better balance?
Data tables
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Governance; Economic indicators; Agriculture and food; Biodiversity and protected areas; Climate and atmosphere; Energy; Fisheries and aquaculture; Forests, grasslands and drylands; Freshwater resources; Population, health and human well-being.
References
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Acknowledgments and chapter-by-chapter bibliographic notes.
Index
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Book cover
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Front and back covers; full spread.
Inside covers
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Author/editor information and about the organizations.
Guide to World Resources 2002-2004 (Full text of executive summary)
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Summarizes the preliminary findings and key messages of the report and was distributed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 26-September 4, 2002. Full report due July 10, 2003.
Guide: Cover, title page
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Guide: Summary overview
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Guide: What's at stake?
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Much of today's environmental degradation is a direct result of poor environmental governance, but improved environmental governance holds promise for reversing it by balancing human needs and ecosytem processes.
Guide: Information technology-- A map to accountability
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Individuals and civil society are gaining influence over resource decisions once made only by the elite. This reflects a new ability to gather and wield environmental information as a lever for greater government accountability.
Guide: Principles of environmental governance
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The heart of good environmental governance is decision-making that is "accessible" -- that is, decisions are transparent and open to public input and oversight.
Guide: The elements of access -- The foundations of public participation
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The Access Initiative measured the public's ability to participate in decisions about the environment. The pilot assessment focused on nine countries. The findings give a good indication of public access to environmental decision-making around the globe.
Guide: Access scorecard
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Presents comparative analysis of national assessments, conducted by research teams in nine pilot countries: Chile, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda and the U.S.
Guide: Access initiative findings -- The state of access
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Countries surveyed scored highest at providing their citizens with access to information, rated lower at providing opportunities to participate in decisions that affect the environment, and generally lagged on the provision of access to justice.
Guide: Governance in a changing world
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The world of environmental governance is far from static. In the last two decades, the social and political conditions that shape environmental decision-making have evolved quickly.
Guide: What is the state of environmental governance today?
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How well have we put into practice the key environmental governance principles endorsed at the Rio Earth Summit? The results of the Access Initiative and analysis of other governance trends present a picture with some progress but much yet to be done.
Guide: Acknowledgments
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Chinese language translation
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