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The institutional dimensions of environmental change : fit, interplay, and scale /

Researchers studying the role institutions play in causing and confronting environmental change use a variety of concepts and methods that make it difficult to compare their findings. Seeking to remedy this problem, Oran Young takes the analytic themes identified in the Institutional Dimensions of G...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Young, Oran R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Series:Global environmental accords.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: I. Concepts and Models
  • 1. Environmental Change: Institutional Drivers, Institutional Responses
  • 2. Collective-Action Models versus Social-Practice Models
  • II. Analytic Frontiers
  • 3. Fit: Matching Ecosystem Properties and Regime Attributes
  • 4. Vertical Interplay: The Consequences of Cross-Scale Interactions
  • 5. Horizontal Interplay: The Politics of Institutional Linkages
  • 6. Scale: Addressing Local and Global Environmental Challenges
  • III. Analysis and Praxis
  • 7. Usable Knowledge: Design Principles and Institutional Diagnostics.