Hybrid governance and performances of environmental accounting

Multiple centers of authority in hybrid forms create conditions radical openness where questions value and fitness are flux. Environmental accounting is suggested as a condition for steadying opening up possibilities institutional innovations. This paper advances critical social science analysis environmental to help specify how, when, what ways strengthening capacity governance. Social studies argue that systems contingent on institutions: rules conventions, not only data or science. Our practice-centered two cases building tools advance high profile innovations US agri-environmental governance finds the structure legitimize protocols pre-given. The same presents opportunities hybridity also reinforces uncertainties standards. We identify major frictions: a) Conventions determining technical consensus b) Rules levels transaction costs. conclude by identifying need think about critically. Although an expression creativity collaboration, they performances certain contemporary political covenant delegitimizes state-centered challenge ahead understand when arrangements add socio-ecological regulation undermine possibility more functional approaches through performance seriousness.