In On Environmental Governance, Oran R. Young examines a variety of efforts to meet the challenge of governing human interaction with the environment in the interest of sustainability.

Introduction: Governing Human-Environment Relations
Part I: Simple Environmental Governance
Chapter 1 Natural Resources
Chapter 2 Environmental Protection
Chapter 3 Ecosystem Services
Part II: Complex Environmental Governance
Chapter 4 Horizontal Interplay
Chapter 5 Vertical Interplay
Part III: Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene
Chapter 6 The Great Acceleration
Chapter 7 The Sustainability Transition
Conclusion: Making Environmental Governance Work

Oran R. Young is Professor of Institutional and International Governance and Environmental Institutions at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of numerous books including, most recently, Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (MIT Press 2010), and was the founding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change within the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.