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Although many developing countries have started to incorporate the environmental dimension in their bodies of laws, environmental regulation is conspicuously absent from existing studies of capitalism. The chapter’s author (André Meunié) finds national environmental governance to be differentiated by the effectiveness of local institutions governing natural resources, and by the degrees of private sector involvement, participation in international coalitions and protection of biodiversity. Four models of environmental governance are identified. As for developing countries, the biodiversity-focused type includes countries endowed with exceptional local environmental resources and having adopted “hot spot” preservation schemes while weakly governed countries feature significantly weak overall environmental regulation. Included in the idiosyncratic type is an interesting group of emerging countries, with weak environmental governance and a strong involvement in international regulation.
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Recent trends of research try to combine ecological economics and political ecology to highlight the influence of social conflicts on environmental governance (see the special issue of Ecological Economics under the direction of Martinez-Alier 2010).
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Note that these variables do not affect the construction of principal factors. In order to back up PCA results, twenty-five bootstrap replications of the initial sample were implemented in order to provide confidence intervals for the projected variables coordinates. This bootstrap procedure shows that the position of active variables on the first factorial plan is stable, thus confirming the robustness of our PCA results.
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The so-called relevant partition, i.e., the relevant number of clusters, is derived from the analysis of the dendrogram and the analysis of two indicators that respectively measure (i) the improvement of the inter- to intra-cluster variance ratio from a given partition to another and (ii) the impact of k-means consolidation on that ratio.
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More specifically, the standardized Euclidian distance between these countries and the barycentre is below half the median distance.
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Meunié, A. (2017). Environmental Regulation Models. In: Rougier, E., Combarnous, F. (eds) The Diversity of Emerging Capitalisms in Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49947-5_10
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