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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822161203321

Titolo

Institutions and environmental change : principal findings, applications, and research frontiers / / edited by Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

0-262-28658-0

1-4356-6802-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

YoungOran R

KingLeslie A

SchroederHeike

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

Environmental policy

Environmental protection

International relations - Environmental aspects

Globalization - Environmental aspects

International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-349) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents ; Preface; Summary for Policy Makers; IDGEC Glossary; I Introduction; 1 Institutions and Environmental Change: The Scientific Legacy of a Decade of IDGEC Research; II Research Foci; 2 Determining the Causal Significance of Institutions: Accomplishments and Challenges; 3 Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Institutions: What to Evaluate and How to Evaluate It?; 4 Building Regimes for Socioecological Systems: Institutional Diagnostics; III Analytic Themes

5 The Problem of Fit among Biophysical Systems, Environmental and Resource Regimes, and Broader Governance Systems: Insights and Emerging Challenges6 Interplay: Exploring Institutional Interaction; 7 Global Change: Analyzing Scale and Scaling in Environmental Governance; IV Policy Relevance and Future Directions; 8 Contributing to the Science-Policy Interface: Policy Relevance of Findings on the



Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; 9 Earth System Governance: A Research Agenda; References; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.