Title: Institutions and environmental change : principal findings, applications, and research frontiers /
Authors: Young, Oran R.; King, Leslie A.; Schroeder, Heike.
Publisher: MIT Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Environmental policy.; Environmental protection.; International relations Environmental aspects.; Globalization Environmental aspects; International cooperation.
Abstract: 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: Institutions and environmental change: the scientific legacy of a decade of IDGEC research / Oran R. Young -- Determining the causal significance of institutions : accomplishments and challenges / Arild Underdal -- Evaluating the performance of environmental institutions : what to evaluate and how to evaluate it? / Ronald B. Mitchell -- Building regimes for socioecological systems : institutional diagnostics / Oran R. Young -- The problem of fit among biophysical systems, environmental and resource regimes, and broader governance systems : insights and emerging challenges / Victor Galaz ... [et al.] -- Interplay : exploring institutional interaction / Thomas Gehring and Sebastian Oberthür -- Global change : analyzing scale and scaling in environmental governance / Joyeeta Gupta -- Contributing to the science-policy interface : policy relevance of findings on the institutional dimensions of global environmental change / Heike Schroeder, Leslie King, and Simon Tay -- Earth system governance : a research agenda / Frank Biermann.