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Title Global environmental assessments : information and influence / edited by Ronald B. Mitchell [and others].

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Global environmental accord
Global environmental accords.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Evaluating the influence of global environmental assessments / William C. Clark, Ronald B. Mitchell, David W. Cash -- Science or salience : building an agenda for climate change / Wendy E.F. Torrance -- Problem framing in assessment processes : the case of biosafety / Aarti Gupta -- Whose experts? : the role of geographic representation in global environmental assessments / Frank Biermann -- Assessment information in European politics : east and west / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- Structure and influence of international assessments : lessons from Eastern Europe / Liliana B. Andonova -- From regional to global information : assessment of persistent organic pollutants / Noelle Eckley Selin -- Climate change and sea-level rise in Maine and Hawai'i : the changing tides of an issue domain / Susanne C. Moser -- Trust, respect, patience, and sea-surface temperatures : useful climate forecasting in Zimbabwe / Anthony G. Patt -- Mining water, drying wells : multilevel assessment and decision making for water management / David W. Cash -- Information and influence / Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W. Cash.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Summary A comparative analysis of global environmental assessments shows the importance of policy salience, scientific credibility, and social and political legitimacy in determining the influence of scientific assessments on global environmental policy.
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Subject Environmental policy -- International cooperation.
Environmental policy -- International cooperation.
Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
Environmental impact analysis -- Case studies.
Environmental impact analysis.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Mitchell, Ronald B. (Ronald Bruce)
Other Form: Print version: Global environmental assessments. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 0262134683 9780262134682 (DLC) 2006041963 (OCoLC)64427544
ISBN 9780262279987 (electronic book)
0262279983 (electronic book)
0262134683 (alkaline paper)
0262633361 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780262134682
9780262633369
9781429477611 (electronic book)
142947761X (electronic book)
1282097458
9781282097452