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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 (xxii, 373 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- Summary for Policy Makers xiii
- IDGEC Glossary xxi
- 1 Institutions and Environmental Change: The Scientific Legacy of a Decade of IDGEC Research / Oran R. Young 3
- II Research Foci 47
- 2 Determining the Causal Significance of Institutions: Accomplishments and Challenges / Arild Underdal 49
- 3 Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Institutions: What to Evaluate and How to Evaluate It? / Ronald B. Mitchell 79
- 4 Building Regimes for Socioecological Systems: Institutional Diagnostics / Oran R. Young 115
- III Analytic Themes 145
- 5 The Problem of Fit among Biophysical Systems, Environmental and Resource Regimes, and Broader Governance Systems: Insights and Emerging Challenges / Victor Galaz, Per Olsson, Thomas Hahn, Carl Folke, Uno Svedin 147
- 6 Interplay: Exploring Institutional Interaction / Thomas Gehring, Sebastian Oberthur 187
- 7 Global Change: Analyzing Scale and Scaling in Environmental Governance / Joyeeta Gupta 225
- IV Policy Relevance and Future Directions 259
- 8 Contributing to the Science-Policy Interface: Policy Relevance of Findings on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change / Heike Schroeder, Leslie A. King, Simon Tay 261
- 9 Earth System Governance: A Research Agenda / Frank Biermann 277.
- Notes:
- "Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262286589
- 0262286580
- 9781435668027
- 1435668022
- OCLC:
- 259744365
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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