Governing Nature: The Reregulation of Resource Access, Production, and Consumption

Abstract

Recent developments in political economy have highlighted the institutional nature of economic processes. Researchers using urban regime theory, for example, have grappled with the role of political coalitions in governing the form and rate of urban growth. Working at a different analytical and spatial scale, regulationists have called attention to the role of extra-economic processes in providing coherence to national and regional economies. These two literatures contain significant differences and should not necessarily be regarded as commensurate (see various contributions in Lauria, 1997). Yet both are representative of an`institutional turn' within economic geography that has encouraged the revival of`new regionalist' analyses of the relationships between institutional capacities, new forms of governance, and regional economic development (see, inter

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