Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change - An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Advances in Global Change Research Volume 5)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780792366379
Subjects: Climatology; Global warming; Climate Changes; Environmental Policy; Science; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Environmental Science; Public Policy - General; Political Science : Public Policy - General; Science / Environmental Science; Science / Meteorology; Science : Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Climatic changes; Government policy; Intergovernmental Panel on Cli; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Science and state
First sentence: Research input constitutes a key component in the development of effective international environmental regimes.
Description: "This study analyses the extent to which and how the institutional framework within which the science-policy dialogue takes place - through conscious design - can be utilised as an instrument to handle obstacles and barriers immanent of science-policy interaction and thereby serve as an instrument to enhance the effectiveness of the dialogue. Also, the impact of actor behaviour, particularly behaviour taking the form of leadership performance, is investigated. This book provides a detailed and in-depth empirical study of science-policy interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from its establishment in 1988, to the provision of the second IPCC Assessment Report in 1995.

The main focus of the empirical investigation is on Working Group I of the IPCC."--Jacket.