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Title: Governance of environmental risk : new approaches to managing stakeholder involvement
Related: Journal of environmental management, Vol. 90, Issue 4 (2009), p.1567-1575
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.05.011
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2009
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 050200 Environmental Science and Management
Author/Creator: Benn, Suzanne
Author/Creator: Dunphy, Dexter
Author/Creator: Martin, Andrew
Description: Disputes concerning industrial legacies such as the disposal of toxic wastes illustrate changing pressures on corporations and governments. Business and governments are now confronted with managing the expectations of a society increasingly aware of the social and environmental impacts and risks associated with economic development and demanding more equitable distribution and democratic management of such risks. The closed managerialist decision-making of the powerful bureaucracies and corporations of the industrial era is informed by traditional management theory which cannot provide a framework for the adequate governance of these risks. Recent socio-political theories have conceptualised some key themes that must be addressed in a more fitting approach to governance. We identify more recent management and governance theory which addresses these themes and develop a process-based approach to governance of environmental disputes that allows for the evolving nature of stakeholder relations in a highly complex multiple stakeholder arena.
Description: 9 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 050200 Environmental Science and Management
Subject Keyword: governance
Subject Keyword: stakeholder relations
Subject Keyword: management theory
Subject Keyword: environmental risk
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Graduate School of the Environment

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/119583
Identifier: ISSN:0301-4797
Identifier: mq-rm-2009007314
Language: eng
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