Environmental Governance and Decentralisation

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The volume examines how different countries define and address environmental issues, with specific attention to intergovernmental relations: what institutions have been created, what assignment of powers have been chosen or have emerged, what solutions have been tried and with what success. It also investigates whether a systemic view of the environment had percolated to the level of policy making. The adopted perspective has been as broad as possible, with the inclusion of sixteen countries in six continents and of the European Union, analyzed by scholars from different disciplines - economics, political science, environmental science and law - thus producing novel material that is not part of the conventional treatment of the environment and of decentralization in the economic literature.