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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The relation between civil society and environmental governance is not new. A number of developed states have introduced systems of green house gas emissions controls, but policy experience in this area is barely fifteen years old. Initiatives around adaptation are newer still. Thus societies are only beginning to learn what approaches are more or less promising. The power of ideas and the possibility of re-defining what is considered 'normal', 'possible' and 'acceptable' is often neglected in policy discussion. An example of power of ideas to shift policy frames is provided by the turn towards free markets and away from state provision that occurred in 1980s. Over the course of decades reforms aimed a reining back government and encouraging market growth dramatically altered expectation about boundaries of public- private economic activities-that is of civil society in broader sense.
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