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Co-operative Environmental Governance

Public-Private Agreements As a Policy Strategy

The common denominator of modern environmental governance is co-operation between public and private parties. Of course, co-operation is nothing new in itself. The novelty lies in its planned form. In co-operative environmental governance the parties commit themselves, through a more or less binding agreement, to resolve specific environmental difficulties. When co-operation is embedded in environmental policy, it becomes a means to achieve the environmental objectives of the state. The essays which make up this volume explore this new option in environmental governance: the nature of the approach, the preconditions and its chances of success. They take an interdisciplinary approach to the task, analyzing theoretical issues and practical experiences in a number of countries.

The consensus or 'self -steering model is not based on purposively directing the
actions of the parties involved but rather on the initiation and maintenance of a
continuous (societal) learning process. In analogy to operational processes of ...