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

Contents
......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Summary for Policy Makers......Page 14
IDGEC Glossary......Page 22
I Introduction......Page 24
1 Institutions and Environmental Change: The Scientific Legacy of a Decade of IDGEC Research......Page 26
II Research Foci......Page 70
2 Determining the Causal Significance of Institutions: Accomplishments and Challenges......Page 72
3 Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Institutions: What to Evaluate and How to Evaluate It?......Page 102
4 Building Regimes for Socioecological Systems: Institutional Diagnostics......Page 138
III Analytic Themes......Page 168
5 The Problem of Fit among Biophysical Systems, Environmental and Resource Regimes, and Broader Governance Systems: Insights and Emerging Challenges......Page 170
6 Interplay: Exploring Institutional Interaction......Page 210
7 Global Change: Analyzing Scale and Scaling in Environmental Governance......Page 248
IV Policy Relevance and Future Directions......Page 282
8 Contributing to the Science-Policy Interface: Policy Relevance of Findings on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change......Page 284
9 Earth System Governance: A Research Agenda......Page 300
References......Page 326
Contributors......Page 374
Index......Page 376