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Ozone connections : expert networks in global environmental governance /

It is difficult to think of a more significant example of international co-operation to address a problem that threatened the health and wellbeing of the entire planet than the 1987 Montreal Protocol for the Elimination of Ozone-Depleting Substances. This breakthrough in international environmental...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Canan, Penelope
Otros Autores: Reichman, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England : Greenleaf Pub., 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION: The 'early days' of ozone-layer protection: Jay Baker's story
  • The Suely Carvalho story: global worker, global citizen
  • The technology and economic assessment panel of the Montreal Protocol
  • Perspectives on studying global environmental governance
  • A comment on collaborative regulation
  • From epistemic communities to reflexive regulation and communities of practice
  • On combining quantitative and qualitative approaches
  • Organisation of the book
  • THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL: A MOST REMARKABLE TREATY: The progression toward international co-operation on ozone-layer protection
  • The significance of informal consultation
  • Mostafa Tolba: at the intersection of history, biography and personality
  • The institutional structure of the montreal protocol
  • Overcoming the 'uncertainty' problem
  • Financed technology transfer established the conditions for global partnerships
  • NETWORKS IN THE OZONE-LAYER REGIME: Communities as social systems
  • The ozone regime as a social system of networks
  • The technology and economic assessment panel: the bridging network.
  • SOCIAL CAPITAL IN ACTION: Social capital and the building of strategic information alliances
  • Who are the participants?
  • They came endowed with capital
  • The personal rewards of capital investment: or, what have the participants become?
  • COMMITTEE CONNECTIONS: Measuring connections
  • Influence sets
  • Mapping network connections
  • Structural embeddedness
  • Relational embeddedness
  • Leadership
  • Satisfaction with the process
  • SOCIALISATION IN THE OZONE COMMUNITY: Commitment as a factor in socialisation
  • Committee work as the locus of socialisation processes
  • INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURS: Defining a new institutional space
  • Enrolling and inspiring others
  • Credibility through performance
  • Affirming the new institiutional space
  • Rewarding incremental success through public recognition
  • LESSONS LEARNED: The new institutional space created by the Montreal Protocol
  • The social relationships that facilitated implementation
  • Some spin-off benefits of the success of the Montreal Protocol
  • Lessons particularly pertaining to climate change
  • Lessons for questions of governance.