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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (397 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetto topico: Environmental policy; Environmental protection; International relations - Environmental aspects; Globalization - Environmental aspects; International cooperation
• Altri autori: YoungOran R KingLeslie A SchroederHeike
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Institutions and environmental change
• ISBN: 0-262-28658-0; 1-4356-6802-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822161203321
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