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Politics, Science, and the Environment

Peter M. Haas and Sheila Jasanoff, series editors

This series offers innovative books on the multifaceted relationship between human beings, social institutions, science, and our environment.

Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries

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An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the “management treadmill.”

Between Preservation and Exploitation

Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries
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A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation.

A Fragmented Continent

Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change
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How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing climate change—and what threatens their leadership.

Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods

Edited by Eric Brousseau, Tom Dedeurwaerdere and Bernd Siebenhüner

Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.

Instituting Nature

Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
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A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state.

Governing the Air

The Dynamics of Science, Policy, and Citizen Interaction
Edited by Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist

Experts offer theoretical and empirical analyses that view the regulation of transboundary air pollution as a dynamic process.

Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals

Challenges of Multilevel Management
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An analysis of the regime for the management of hazardous chemicals, highlighting the insights it provides for effective multilevel governance in other areas.

Science in Environmental Policy

The Politics of Objective Advice
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An analysis of the role and influence of scientists at the agenda-setting, legislative, and implementation stages of environmental policy making.

The Power of Words in International Relations

Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse
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The role of discursive power in shaping international relations analyzed through the lens of whaling politics.

What's the Beef?

The Contested Governance of European Food Safety
Edited by Christopher Ansell and David Vogel

Global Institutions and Social Knowledge

Generating Research at the Scripps Institution and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, 1900s–1990s
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Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan

A History of Knowledge and Action toward Sustainability
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Earthly Politics

Local and Global in Environmental Governance
Edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Martello

The Commons in the New Millennium

Challenges and Adaptation
Edited by Nives Dolšak and Elinor Ostrom

Bureaucratic Landscapes

Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity
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Changing the Atmosphere

Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
Edited by Clark A. Miller and Paul N. Edwards

Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain
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Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

A Functional Analysis of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain
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People and Forests

Communities, Institutions, and Governance
Edited by Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean and Elinor Ostrom

Views from the Alps

Regional Perspectives on Climate Change
Edited by Peter Cebon

Focusing on the Alpine region to look at climate change's regional manifestations.

Shadows in the Forest

Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia
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This book is the first to analyze the environmental impact of Japanese trade, corporations, and aid on timber management in the context of Southeast Asian political economies. It is also one of the first comprehensive studies of why Southeast Asian states are unable to enforce forest policies and regulations.