From market failure paradigm to an institutional theory of environmental governance

Journal title ECONOMIA DELLE FONTI DI ENERGIA E DELL’AMBIENTE
Author/s Jouni Paavola
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/1
Language English Pages 15 P. 87-101 File size 572 KB
DOI 10.3280/EFE2009-001006
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

<em>From Market Failure Paradigm to an Institutional Theory of Environmental Governance</em> - This manuscript examines how an institutional theory of environmental governance might be based on a re-interpretation and re-working of the arguments of the market failure paradigm and its main criticisms. The manuscript first examines in detail the arguments of the market failure paradigm regarding externalities and public goods, as well as their criticisms. The paper then suggests an institutional re-interpretation and revision of the key arguments of the market failure paradigm. The institutional theory of environmental governance acknowledges the interdependence of economic actors and the resulting fundamental role of conflicts as the rationale for environmental governance and its institutions. As environmental conflicts are primarily a matter of distribution rather than of efficiency, it becomes important to understand the likely consequences of institutional alternatives in the specific socio-economic and physical setting of the environmental conflicts, and the degree to which these consequences match with the pertinent social or economic goals. <br/><br/>Keywords: environmental governance, market failure, externalities, public goods, welfare economics, institutional economics <br/><br/>JEL classifications: Q50; H41; D62; B52

  • Sand winning in Dormaa as an interlocking of livelihood strategies with environmental governance regimes Peter Narh, in Environment, Development and Sustainability /2016 pp.467
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-015-9657-7

Jouni Paavola, From market failure paradigm to an institutional theory of environmental governance in "ECONOMIA DELLE FONTI DI ENERGIA E DELL’AMBIENTE" 1/2009, pp 87-101, DOI: 10.3280/EFE2009-001006