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Global environmental assessments : information and influence / edited by Ronald B. Mitchell ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global environmental accords.
- Global environmental accord
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--International cooperation.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental protection--International cooperation.
- Environmental protection.
- Environmental impact analysis--Case studies.
- Environmental impact analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comparative analysis of global environmental assessments shows the importance of policy salience, scientific credibility, and social and political legitimacy in determining the influence of scientific assessments on global environmental policy.
- Contents:
- Evaluating the influence of global environmental assessments / William C. Clark, Ronald B. Mitchell, David W. Cash
- Science or salience : building an agenda for climate change / Wendy E.F. Torrance
- Problem framing in assessment processes : the case of biosafety / Aarti Gupta
- Whose experts? : the role of geographic representation in global environmental assessments / Frank Biermann
- Assessment information in European politics : east and west / Stacy D. VanDeveer
- Structure and influence of international assessments : lessons from Eastern Europe / Liliana B. Andonova
- From regional to global information : assessment of persistent organic pollutants / Noelle Eckley Selin
- Climate change and sea-level rise in Maine and Hawai'i : the changing tides of an issue domain / Susanne C. Moser
- Trust, respect, patience, and sea-surface temperatures : useful climate forecasting in Zimbabwe / Anthony G. Patt
- Mining water, drying wells : multilevel assessment and decision making for water management / David W. Cash
- Information and influence / Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W. Cash.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-09745-8
- 9786612097454
- 0-262-27998-3
- 1-4294-7761-X
- OCLC:
- 145732558
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