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September 2006
6 x 9, 358 pp., 11 illus.
$29.00/£21.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-63336-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-63336-9

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Cloth (2006)
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Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation
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Global Environmental Assessments
Information and Influence
Edited by Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W. Cash and Nancy M. Dickson

Series Forewordvii
Preface
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Contributorsxiii
1.Evaluating the Influence of Global Environmental Assessments
William C. Clark, Ronald B. Mitchell and David W. Cash
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2.Science or Salience: Building an Agenda for Climate Change
Wendy E. F. Torrance
29
3.Problem Framing in Assessment Processes: The Case of Biosafety
Aarti Gupta
57
4.Whose Experts? The Role of Geographic Representation in Global Environmental Assessments
Frank Biermann
87
5.Assessment Information in European Politics: East and West
Stacy D. VanDeveer
113
6.Structure and Influence of International Assessments: Lessons from Eastern Europe
Liliana B. Andonova
151
7.From Regional to Global Information: Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants
Noelle Eckley Selin
175
8.Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise in Maine and Hawaii: The Changing Tides of an Issue Domain
Susanne Moser
201
9.Trust, Respect, Patience, and Sea-Surface Temperatures: Useful Climate Forecasting in Zimbabwe
Anthony G. Patt
241
10.Mining Water, Drying Wells: Mutlilevel Assessment and Decision Making for Water Management
David W. Cash
271
11.Information and Influence
Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark and David W. Cash
307
Index
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