Institutions and environmental change : principal findings, applications, and research frontiers
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Institutions and environmental change : principal findings, applications, and research frontiers
MIT Press, c2008
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- : pbk
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Note
"Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-349) and index
Contents of Works
- Institutions and environmental change: the scientific legacy of a decade of IDGEC research / Oran R. Young
- Determining the causal significance of institutions : accomplishments and challenges / Arild Underdal
- Evaluating the performance of environmental institutions : what to evaluate and how to evaluate it? / Ronald B. Mitchell
- Building regimes for socioecological systems : institutional diagnostics / Oran R. Young
- The problem of fit among biophysical systems, environmental and resource regimes, and broader governance systems : insights and emerging challenges / Victor Galaz ... [et al.]
- Interplay : exploring institutional interaction / Thomas Gehring and Sebastian Oberthür
- Global change : analyzing scale and scaling in environmental governance / Joyeeta Gupta
- 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
- Earth system governance : a research agenda / Frank Biermann
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780262240574
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.Studies show that institutions play a role both in causing and in addressing problems arising from human-environment interactions. But the nature of this role is complex and not easily described. This book presents an overview of recent research on how institutions matter in efforts to tackle such environmental problems as the loss of biological diversity, the degradation of forests, and the overarching issue of climate change. Using the tools of the "new institutionalism" in the social sciences, the book treats institutions as sets of rights, rules, and decision-making procedures. Individual chapters present research findings and examine policy implications regarding questions of causality, performance, and institutional design as well as the themes of institutional fit (or misfit), interplay, and scale. Institutions and Environmental Change is the product of a decade-long international research project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) carried out under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme. The book's policy insights demonstrate that research on institutions can provide the basis for practical advice on effective ways to deal with the most pressing environmental problems of our times.ContributorsFrank Biermann, Carl Folke, Victor Galaz, Thomas Gehring, Joyeeta Gupta, Thomas Hahn, Leslie A. King, Ronald B. Mitchell, Sebastian Oberthur, Per Olsson, Heike Schroeder, Uno Svedin, Simon Tay, Arild Underdal, Oran R. Young
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780262740333
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.
Studies show that institutions play a role both in causing and in addressing problems arising from human-environment interactions. But the nature of this role is complex and not easily described. This book presents an overview of recent research on how institutions matter in efforts to tackle such environmental problems as the loss of biological diversity, the degradation of forests, and the overarching issue of climate change. Using the tools of the "new institutionalism" in the social sciences, the book treats institutions as sets of rights, rules, and decision-making procedures.
Individual chapters present research findings and examine policy implications regarding questions of causality, performance, and institutional design as well as the themes of institutional fit (or misfit), interplay, and scale. Institutions and Environmental Change is the product of a decade-long international research project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) carried out under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme. The book's policy insights demonstrate that research on institutions can provide the basis for practical advice on effective ways to deal with the most pressing environmental problems of our times.
Contributors
Frank Biermann, Carl Folke, Victor Galaz, Thomas Gehring, Joyeeta Gupta, Thomas Hahn, Leslie A. King, Ronald B. Mitchell, Sebastian Oberthur, Per Olsson, Heike Schroeder, Uno Svedin, Simon Tay, Arild Underdal, Oran R. Young
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