Institutions and environmental change : principal findings, applications, and research frontiers / edited by Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder.

1. Institutions and Environmental Change: The Scientific Legacy of a Decade of IDGEC Research / Oran R. Young -- II. Research Foci -- 2. Determining the Causal Significance of Institutions: Accomplishments and Challenges / Arild Underdal -- 3. Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Institutions: What to Evaluate and How to Evaluate It? / Ronald B. Mitchell -- 4. Building Regimes for Socioecological Systems: Institutional Diagnostics / Oran R. Young -- III. Analytic Themes -- 5. The Problem of Fit among Biophysical Systems, Environmental and Resource Regimes, and Broader Governance Systems: Insights and Emerging Challenges / Victor Galaz, Per Olsson, Thomas Hahn, Carl Folke and Uno Svedin -- 6. Interplay: Exploring Institutional Interaction / Thomas Gehring and Sebastian Oberthur -- 7. Global Change: Analyzing Scale and Scaling in Environmental Governance / Joyeeta Gupta -- IV. Policy Relevance and Future Directions -- 8. Contributing to the Science-Policy Interface: Policy Relevance of Findings on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change / Heike Schroeder, Leslie A. King and Simon Tay -- 9. Earth System Governance: A Research Agenda / Frank Biermann.

"Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-349) and index.