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Hawk, David L

 
9781971954394: Too Early, Too Late, Now What?

Synopsis

Can legal systems designed to control environmental harm actually make complex problems harder to solve?

Too Early, Too Late, Now What? revisits David L. Hawk's systems-science research into industrial pollution, environmental deterioration, and the limits of conventional regulation. Based on comparative work involving production facilities and regulatory approaches in the United States and Sweden, the book examines why rigid, legalistic systems often struggle with changing, interconnected environmental problems.

Hawk contrasts "legal order" with "negotiated order"-an adaptive approach grounded in relationships, participation, distributed responsibility, and continual learning. Across discussions of human nature, entropy, industrialization, social systems, environmental protection, and organizational change, he challenges the assumptions behind business as usual and asks what business as unusual might require.

A later foreword places the original 1970s research in the context of climate change and the accelerating consequences of environmental deterioration. Written for readers of environmental policy, systems thinking, public administration, corporate responsibility, and social theory, this book offers both a historical study and a provocative argument for rethinking how institutions govern change.

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À propos de l'auteur

David L. Hawk holds a PhD in Systems Sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His work examines environmental deterioration, organizational systems, regulation, management, and the relationship between business and nature. His international research included work through the Institute of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics and comparative studies of industrial pollution and environmental regulation in the United States and Sweden. He has taught, researched, and advised on systems thinking, organizational change, and innovative approaches to environmental and corporate governance.

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