How Institutions Change: Perspectives on Social Learning in Global and Local Environmental Contexts

Front Matter....Pages 1-6
Preface....Pages 7-8
Foreword....Pages 9-11
Institutional Change and Social Learning in Environmental Contexts: An Introduction....Pages 13-30
Introduction....Pages 31-34
Of Course International Institutions Matter: But When and How?....Pages 35-52
Learning in International Public Policy Networks. Managing Institutional Interplay between National and International Forest Programmes....Pages 53-83
Solving Problems of ‘Fit’ at the Expense of Problems of ‘Interplay’? The Spatial Reorganisation of Water Management Following the EU Water Framework Directive....Pages 85-121
Using Market Institutions for Sustainability: Environmental Production Standards in the Coffee Trade....Pages 123-149
Introduction....Pages 151-153
Institutionalisation of Ecological Risk Perceptions: The Role of Climate Change Discourses in Germany....Pages 155-177
Politics, Law and Citizens’ Responsibility. Justice Judgements in the Everyday Reconstruction of Environmental Conflicts....Pages 179-203
Institutional Dynamics of Changing Land Care Practices in the Central Namib Desert....Pages 205-228
Introduction....Pages 229-231
Resolving Environmental Conflicts. Mediation and Negotiation as Institutional Capacities for Social Learning....Pages 233-267
Myths and Laws: Changing Institutions of Indigenous Marine Resource Management in Central America....Pages 269-300
Lessons Drawn from Burden Sharing Exercises. EC Acidification and Climate Change Policies....Pages 301-324
Social Learning at the Science-Policy Interface - A Comparison of the IPCC and the Scientific Assessments under the LRTAP Convention....Pages 325-353
Institutional Change in Environmental Contexts....Pages 355-375
Back Matter....Pages 377-380