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How Institutions Change

Perspectives on Social Learning in Global and Local Environmental Contexts

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Editors:
  1. Heiko Breit
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  2. Anita Engels
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  3. Timothy Moss
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  4. Markus Troja
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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  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

  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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About this book

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.

About the authors

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. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: How Institutions Change

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Social Learning in Global and Local Environmental Contexts

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80936-0

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8100-3858-6Published: 31 August 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-80936-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 368

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Comparative Politics

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