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Institutions and Environmental Change : Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (396 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262286589
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Institutions and Environmental ChangeDDC classification:
  • 333.7
LOC classification:
  • HC79.E5I5159 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Challenges -- 6 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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 Challenges -- 6 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.

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.

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