Institutions and environmental change
Subtitle: principal findings, applications, and research frontiers
By: edited by Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder.
Contributors: Young, Oran R.; King, Leslie A.; Schroeder, Heike.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780262240574; 9780262740333
Subjects: Environmental policy; Environmental protection; International relations -- Environmental aspects; Globalization -- Environmental aspects; International cooperation
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Institutions and environmental change: the scientific legacy of a decade of research / Oran R. Young; title: Determining the causal significance of institutions : accomplishments and challenges / Arild Underdal; title: Evaluating the performance of environmental institutions : what to evaluate and how to evaluate it? / Ronald B. Mitchell; title: Building regimes for socio-ecological systems : institutional diagnostics / Oran R. Young; title: The problem of fit among biophysical systems, environmental regimes and broader governance systems : insights and emerging challenges / Victor Galaz ... [et al.]; title: Interplay : exploring institutional interaction / Thomas Gehring and Sebastian Oberthür; title: Global change : analyzing scale and scaling in environmental governance / Joyeeta Gupta; title: 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; title: Earth system governance : a research agenda / Frank Biermann.