How Institutions Change

Preface.- Foreword.- Institutional Change and Social Learning in Environmental Contexts: An Introduction.- I: Reshaping Institutions.- Of Course International Institutions Matter: But When and How?.- Learning in International Public Policy Networks. Managing Institutional Interplay between National and International Forest Programmes.- Solving Problems of 'Fit' at the Expense of Problems of 'Interplay'? The Spatial Reorganisation of Water Management Following the EU Water Framework Directive.- Using Market Institutions for Sustainability: Environmental Production Standards in the Coffee Trade.- II: Linking Institutional Change to Social Practice.- Institutionalisation of Ecological Risk Perceptions: The Role of Climate Change Discourses in Germany.- Politics, Law and Citizens' Responsibility. Justice Judgements in the Everday Reconstruction of Environmental Conflicts.- Institutional Dynamics of Changing Land Care Practices in the Central Namib Desert.- III: Institutionalising Social Learning.- Resolving Environmental Conflicts. Mediation and Negotiation as Institutional Capacities for Social Learning.- Myths and Laws: Changing Institutions of Indigenous Marine Resource Management in Central America.- Lessons Drawn from Burden Sharing Exercises. The EC Acidification and Climate Change Policies.- Social Learning at the Science-Policy Interface - A Comparison of the IPCC and the Scientific Assessments LRTAP Convention.- Conclusions.- Institutional Change in Environmental Contexts.- About the Authors.

Timothy Moss, geboren 1959, ist Historiker und promovierte zum Thema Kommunalpolitik in der Weimarer Republik. Seit 1993 arbeitet er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am IRS und koordiniert das EU-Forschungsprojekt "Sustainable Flow Management". Die Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Infrastrukturmanagement, regionale Ressourcenbewirtschaftung, Planung von Ver- und Entsorgungssystemen.