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Institutions and environmental change : principal findings, applications, and research frontiers / edited by Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental protection.
- International relations--Environmental aspects.
- International relations.
- Globalization--Environmental aspects.
- Globalization.
- International cooperation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (397 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This overview of recent research on how institutions matter in tackling environmental problems reports the findings and policy implications of a decade-long international research project.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Preface; Summary for Policy Makers; IDGEC Glossary; I Introduction; 1 Institutions and Environmental Change: The Scientific Legacy of a Decade of IDGEC Research; II Research Foci; 2 Determining the Causal Significance of Institutions: Accomplishments and Challenges; 3 Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Institutions: What to Evaluate and How to Evaluate It?; 4 Building Regimes for Socioecological Systems: Institutional Diagnostics; III Analytic Themes
- 5 The Problem of Fit among Biophysical Systems, Environmental and Resource Regimes, and Broader Governance Systems: Insights and Emerging Challenges6 Interplay: Exploring Institutional Interaction; 7 Global Change: Analyzing Scale and Scaling in Environmental Governance; IV Policy Relevance and Future Directions; 8 Contributing to the Science-Policy Interface: Policy Relevance of Findings on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; 9 Earth System Governance: A Research Agenda; References; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- "Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-349) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262286589
- 0262286580
- 9781435668027
- 1435668022
- OCLC:
- 259744365
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