Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

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Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered Earth System Governance: A Core Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change Frank Biermann and Oran R. Young, series editors Oran R. Young, Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg, eds., Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered Related books from Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: A Core Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder, eds., Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner, eds., Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies Sebastian Oberthür and Olav Schram Stokke, eds., Managing Institutional Complexity : Regime Interplay and Global Environmental Change Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered edited by Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email special_sales@mitpress.mit.edu or write to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Sabon by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Global environmental governance reconsidered / edited by Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg. p. cm. — (Earth system governance: a core research project of the international human dimensions programme on global environmental change) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-01766-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-262-51770-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Environmental policy—International cooperation. 2. Environmental responsibility— International cooperation. 3. Global environmental changes. I. Biermann, Frank, 1967– II. Pattberg, Philipp H., 1975– GE170.G5548 2012 304.2—dc23 2011048964 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...