Institutions and the environment This important text develops an institutional response to the core issues raised in public policy making and develops a distinct understanding of the role of institutions not least in the study of environmental problems. It questions: how are conflicting interests shaped and taken into account in policy making How should they be accounted for What motivates the behaviour of firms and individuals and how is it possible to change these motivations to produce the favoured common outcomes Preface; Acknowledgements; Further acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Institutions: the web of human life; 2. Institutions: the individual and the society; 3. Institutions: coordination and conflict; 4. Institutional economics: different positions; 5. Rationality; 6. Preferences and values; 7. Explaining institutional change; 8. Evaluating institutional change: the normative aspect of institutions; 9. The environment; 10. Resource regimes; 11. Valuing the environment; 12. Comparing value articulating institutions; 13. Policy and policy measures