Managing institutional complexity regime interplay and global environmental change (MIT Press, 2011)
"A Core Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Institutional interaction in global environmental change / Olav Schram Stokke and Sebastian Oberthür -- Institutional interaction : ten years of scholarly development / Sebastian Oberthür and Thomas Gehring -- Legal and political approaches in interplay management : dealing with the fragmentation of global climate governance / Harro van Asselt -- Savings clauses and the "chilling effect" : regime interplay as constraints on international governance / Mark Axelrod -- Managing policy contradictions between the Montreal and Kyoto protocols : the case of fluorinated greenhouse gases / Sebastian Oberthür, Claire Dupont, and Yasuko Matsumoto -- Interplay management, niche selection, and arctic environmental governance / Olav Schram Stokke -- The role of expert networks in reducing regime conflict : contrasting cases in the management of plant genetic resources / Stefan Jungcurt -- Regime conflicts and their management in global environmental governance / Fariborz Zelli -- The institutional complex of trade and environment : toward an interlocking governance structure and a division of labor / Thomas Gehring -- UNCLOS, property rights, and effective fisheries management : the dynamics of vertical interplay / Frank Alcock -- Interplay management in the climate, energy, and development nexus / Sylvia I. Karlsson-VInkhuyzen and Marcel T.J. Kok -- Conclusions : Decentralized interplay managment in an evolving interinstitutional order / Sebastian Oberthür and Olav Schram Stokke
Here, experts investigate how states and other actors can improve inter-institutional synergy. They examine the complexity of over-lapping environmental governance structures