2010 Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 1-12
The actual implications of practices which can be described as environmental governance can only be understood if investigated from a “does governance affect government, and how?” perspective. Based on a case study of the Water Catchment Forest Council in Kanagawa Prefecture, we showed what would be required in order for an organization established for environmental governance to affect the environmental policies of the regional government. It is essential, we concluded, to enhance the autonomy of the organization, to sustain the organization’s own mission, and to have a mechanism for involving people and groups peripheral to the organization.
