Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 Where the grass is greener: criteria for ecologically rational governance -- 2 'Nested enterprises'? Spatial dimensions of ecological governance -- 3 Up or down with the ecology cycle? Strategies for temporally rational ecological governance -- 4 The commons of governing: the knowledge base of ecological governance -- 5 Governing in common - integration and effectiveness in ecological governance -- 6 Democracy and ecological governance - a balancing act -- 7 Where the buck stops: governmental power and authority in democratic ecological governance -- 8 Straddling the fence: on the possibility of sustainability and democracy in advanced industrial nations -- References -- Index.