Institutional Diversity and Sustainable Environmental Management

H.M. Tuihedur Rahman, PhD is an environmental social scientist with expertise in environmental governance. His internationally focused multidisciplinary research intends to theorize institutional development and change in complex social-ecological systems. Ashlee-Ann Pigford, PhD works at the intersection of governance, innovation and public value to inform strategic directions in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Her research bridges concepts from several disciplines to explore the factors that shape how knowledge is transformed and used by society.

Dedication. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Increasing Relevance of Assessing Institutional Diversity in Sustainable Environmental Management. Path-Dependent Pathways of Inter-Institutional Gaps in Natural Resource Management. The Philippines’ Neoliberal Extractive Industry: Mining for Development, State Violence, and Inter-Institutional Gaps in Resource Governance. Tiger Conservation Governance in the Bangladesh Sundarbans: Identifying Inter-Institutional Gaps. Applying an Access Lens to Understand Equity in a Polycentric Governance Regime: Why Rights Alone May be Insufficient to Advance Indigenous Fishery Development. Institutional Change Between the RastafarI Movement and the Formal State in Jamaica: A Historical Perspective. Diversity in Institutional Strategies for Distributed Renewable Energy Generation: How American States are Designing Net Metering Policy. Necessary but Not Sufficient: An Examination of Two Areas of Multilateral Environmental Institutions. Enabling and Bridging Institutional Diversity Through Polycentric Governance Structures to Advance Sustainable Development: The Case Study of the Arctic Council. Concluding Remarks: Characterizing Institutional Diversity for Improved Sustainable Environmental Management. Index.