How Institutions Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-6

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2. Preface

   1. Preface

      • Heiko Breit, Anita Engels, Timothy Moss, Markus Troja

      Pages 7-8

3. Foreword

   1. Foreword

      • Oran R. Young

      Pages 9-11

4. Introduction

   1. Institutional Change and Social Learning in Environmental Contexts: An Introduction

      • Heiko Breit, Markus Troja

      Pages 13-30

5. Reshaping Institutions

   1. Introduction

      • Timothy Moss

      Pages 31-34

   2. Of Course International Institutions Matter: But When and How?

      • Ronald B. Mitchell

      Pages 35-52

   3. Learning in International Public Policy Networks. Managing Institutional Interplay between National and International Forest Programmes

      • Andreas Obser

      Pages 53-83

   4. Solving Problems of ‘Fit’ at the Expense of Problems of ‘Interplay’? The Spatial Reorganisation of Water Management Following the EU Water Framework Directive

      • Timothy Moss

      Pages 85-121

   5. Using Market Institutions for Sustainability: Environmental Production Standards in the Coffee Trade

      • Florian Dünckmann, Claudia Mayer

      Pages 123-149

6. Linking Institutions to Social Practice

   1. Introduction

      • Heiko Breit

      Pages 151-153

   2. Institutionalisation of Ecological Risk Perceptions: The Role of Climate Change Discourses in Germany

      • Anita Engels

      Pages 155-177

   3. Politics, Law and Citizens’ Responsibility. Justice Judgements in the Everyday Reconstruction of Environmental Conflicts

      • Heiko Breit, Thomas Döring, Lutz H. Eckensberger

      Pages 179-203

   4. Institutional Dynamics of Changing Land Care Practices in the Central Namib Desert

      • Thomas Widlok

      Pages 205-228

7. Institutionalising Social Learning

   1. Introduction

      • Anita Engels

      Pages 229-231

   2. Resolving Environmental Conflicts. Mediation and Negotiation as Institutional Capacities for Social Learning

      • Markus Troja

      Pages 233-267

   3. Myths and Laws: Changing Institutions of Indigenous Marine Resource Management in Central America

      • Verena Sandner

      Pages 269-300

   4. Lessons Drawn from Burden Sharing Exercises. EC Acidification and Climate Change Policies

      • Michael Huber

      Pages 301-324

   5. Social Learning at the Science-Policy Interface - A Comparison of the IPCC and the Scientific Assessments under the LRTAP Convention

      • Bernd Siebenhüner

      Pages 325-353

8. Conclusions

   1. Institutional Change in Environmental Contexts

      • Anita Engels, Timothy Moss

      Pages 355-375

9. Back Matter

   Pages 377-380

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In April 1997 a group of social scientists in Germany came together to form a task force on institutional dimensions of global environmental change. At the time they were all engaged in research projects funded by the German Re­ search Council (DFG) within its Priority Programme "Global Environmental Change - Social and Behavioural Dimensions". Coming initially from the fields of political science and sociology they were motivated by a common interest in advancing knowledge on processes of institutional change relevant to major environmental problems. By exploring the capacity of diverse disci­ plinary approaches to explain institutional change and by exchanging knowl­ edge on environmental institutions in various social, cultural and political settings they aimed to shed fresh light on the complex dynamics of institu­ tions. By 1999 the task force had grown in numbers and scope to include geographers, cultural anthropologists and cultural psychologists, reflecting a unique and broad spectrum of social science research into institutions and the environment. The new members brought not only new disciplinary perspec­ tives to the group, but also an interest in a wider range of institutions func­ tioning at different societal levels and in new cultural settings, including de­ veloping countries. This book is the principal product of the task force.

• Institution
• Institutionen
• Regelwerke
• Soziales Lernen
• Umwelt
• environment
• global changes

Dr. Heiko Breit, Deutsches Institut für internationale pädagogische Forschung, Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Dr. Anita Engels, Institut für Weltgesellschaft, Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld, Germany; Dr. Timothy Moss, Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung (IRS), Erkner, Germany; Dr.Markus Troja, MEDIATOR GmbH, Oldenburg, Germany. 

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