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Name Arild Underdal Title Determining the Causal Significance of Institutions: Accomplishments and Challenges Paper click here PowerPoint short / long Responses: Gehring, Andersen, Contreras Knowledge Broker Response: Belcher Name Ron Mitchell Title Evaluating The Performance of Environmental Institutions: What Should We Evaluate and How Should We Evaluate It? Paper click here PowerPoint short / long Responses: Bernauer, Halle, Kanie Knowledge Broker Response: Bratasida Name Oran Young Title Building Regimes for Socio-Ecological Systems: The Diagnostic Method Paper click here PowerPoint short / long Responses: Nikitina, Andresen, Bai Knowledge Broker Response: Sari Name Victor Galaz, Per Olsson, Thomas Hahn, Carl Folke, Uno Svedin Title The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Governance Systems – Insights and Emerging Challenges Paper click here table PowerPoint short / long Responses: Berkes, Kofinas Knowledge Broker Response: Osherenko Name Sebastian Oberthuer and Thomas Gehring Title Interplay: Exploring Institutional Interaction Paper click here PowerPoint short / long Responses: Mitchell, Underdal, Bodansky Knowledge Broker Response: Jungcurt Name Joyeeta Gupta Title Global Change: Analysing Scale and Scaling in Environmental Governance Paper click here PowerPoint short / long Responses: Dhakal, Lebel Knowledge Broker Response: Berkes Other plenary presentations NEW Oran Young: Opening Plenary Frank Biermann: Earth System Governance as a Crosscutting Theme Oran Young: Distilling IDGEC's scientific legacy Simon Tay: Communicating key findings Frank Biermann: Mapping future research directions Return to top

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Name Sliman Abu Amara	Title Allocative Effects of International Environmental Institutions - The Convention on Biological Diversity	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This paper addresses the concept of allocative effects of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD signed in 1992 establishes three objectives: conservation of biodiversity, its sustainable use; and the equitable sharing of benefits derived from the utilization of genetic resources. The recognition of national sovereignty over genetic resources ... Full abstract
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Name Frank Alcock	Title Trade, Property Rights and Fisheries Management	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Academic and policy debates regarding the relationship between trade and environment have drawn attention to a number of potential linkages. A salient observation that has emerged from these debates concerns the importance of domestic institutions as intervening variables that can amplify and/or mitigate observed linkages. Within the ... Full abstract
Keywords trade, fisheries management, interplay

Name Regine Andersen	Title Governing Agrobiodiversity: A Framework for Analysis of Aggregate Effects of International Regimes	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This paper outlines a framework for analysis of aggregate effects of international regimes – and demonstrates its relevance in the case of management of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) in developing countries. Whereas many regime studies have focused on the effectiveness of international regimes – where effects ... Full abstract
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Name Steinar Andresen	Title The role of the UN in global environmental governance: institutions and actors	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This paper will seek to address the main findings from a multiyear project on ’The potential for increasing the effectiveness of the UN in global environmental governance’. The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council. It is based at the FNI, but we also have three collaborators from the ... Full abstract
Keywords United Nations, global governance, design

Name Mark Axelrod	Title Exploring the “Chilling Effect”: Are Environmental Agreements Alone in the Freezer?	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Rather than negotiating on a clean slate, international bargaining takes place in the context of earlier agreements (Raustiala/Victor 2004). Recent studies have identified a “chilling effect” whereby global trade rules limit the scope of later multilateral environmental agreements (Stilwell/Tuerk 1999; Eckersley 2004). This paper will explore whether such ... Full abstract
Keywords chilling effect, MEAs

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Name Karin Backstrand Johannes Stripple	Title Primary Institutions and Global Environmental Governance	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The concept of institutions has been central for the IDGEC programme and a vast range of research activities has been aimed at exploring and assessing institutions from local-to-global levels of social organization. The recent orientation towards Earth System Governance includes the insight that this governance must be based on universally ... Full abstract
Keywords global governance, climate change

Name Alka Bharat Divya Sharma	Title Downscaling Climate Change Mitigation Tools in Local Government- From UNFCCC Goals to India	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Climate Change has the potential to alter the ability of the earth’s physical and biological systems to provide goods and services essential for sustainable development. Recognition of Climate Change as a significant global environmental challenge has a recent origin. International efforts to address the climate change formally began only a ... Full abstract
Keywords climate change, climate policy, interplay

Name Thomas Bernauer Tobias Siegfried	Title On Cooperation, Compliance, and Performance in International Water Management	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract Many case studies and some large-N research have shown that upstream-downstream cooperation in international river basins occurrs quite frequently. We argue that such findings are blind on one eye because they focus solely on policy-output or compliance with international agreements. We present a policy performance metric (PER) that allows for ... Full abstract
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Name Thomas Bernauer Thomas Sattler	Title Escalation Dynamics in WTO Disputes Over Environment, Health and Safety Issues	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract The quantitative literature on WTO dispute settlement explains dispute outcomes primarily through country characteristics and neglects policy-variables. The environmental policy literature tends to assume that disputes over inter-jurisdictional differences in environment, health and safety (EHS) regulation are particularly prone to escalation – without testing this assumption for the population of ... Full abstract
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Name Michele Betsill	Title Principles for designing non-governmental organizations	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
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Name Frank Biermann	Title A World Environment Organization and international environmental meta-governance	Paper click here click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This presentation will draw on two papers: First, a policy paper that asserts the rationale for a World Environment Organization and that synthesises the author's work on this debate. Second, a more general paper -- coauthored with Bernd Siebenhuener -- on the influence of international environmental bureaucracies in global governance. ... Full abstract
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Name Frank Biermann	Title ‘Earth System Governance’ as a Crosscutting Theme of Global Change Research	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract In 2001, the four global change research programmes ‘urgently’ called for ‘an ethical framework for global stewardship and strategies for Earth System man-agement’. Yet this notion of ‘earth system management’ remains vaguely defined: It is too elusive for natural scientists, and too ambitious or too normative for so-cial scientists. In ... Full abstract
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Name Renata Calsing	Title The role of institutions in the effectiveness of the International Environmental Law	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Because of the lack of effectiveness founded in the International Environmental law in our days, today, we considered much more important to create new means of ensuring the real participation of the countries in the already existent treaties, than the creation of new norms that are not going to be ... Full abstract
Keywords institutional design

Name Maria Rebecca Campos	Title Institutional Arrangements in coastal communities in the Philippines	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract The study aimed to identify and assess the capability of the local institutional mechanisms in the implementation of various fisheries policies in the Philippines. The identified institutional mechanisms are the following: (a) Municipal Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Council (MFARMC); (b) Office of the Municipal Agriculturist (OMA), (c) Bantay Dagat ... Full abstract
Keywords fisheries, design

Name Charles Chester	Title Private agencies and transnational institutions	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Although relatively new to the international arena, the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA) and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) are hardly without institutional precedence. Both resonate with Wapner's {, 1996 #1218} description of a “world civic politics” in which environmental NGOs go beyond traditional lobbying efforts to work ... Full abstract
Keywords private governance, behavioral models, transboundary

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Name Chun-Chieh Chi	Title Not Necessarily Bottom-up: Sustainable Development Policy Implementations in Taiwan	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Existing sustainable development (SD) literatures have emphasized bottom-up process as the key to success in national transformation toward sustainability. Over the past ten years in Taiwan, however, major national SD policy making and implementations have been the work of central government agencies. The main purpose of this paper is first ... Full abstract
Keywords sustainable development, design

Name Esteve Corbera Katrina Brown	Title Building institutions to trade ecosystem services: Marketing forest carbon in Mexico	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Nature’s ecosystems regulate and support natural and human systems through processes such as the cleansing, recycling, and renewal of biological resources. Ecosystem services contribute to purify air and water, assimilate waste, stabilise the climate, mobilise nutrients in soils and across natural ecosystems, and maintain biodiversity, among others. Their maintenance is ... Full abstract
Keywords interplay, carbon markets, design

Name Antonio Contreras	Title Discourse, Power and Knowledge in the Making: The case of Water Governance	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This paper shows how statism is manifested in the discourses about water in the Mekong Region. Development strategies in the region focus on modernization, infrastructures, and technocratic solution. Technical intervention and policy formulation receive much impetus from state-directives that are responding to bilateral or regional cooperation initiatives, the success of ... Full abstract
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Name Brent Doberstein	Title Human-dimensions of natural hazards: Adaptive management of debris flows in Pupuan, Bali and Jimani, Dominican Republic	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This paper explores whether past exposure to disasters with a human dimension (e.g. deforestation-related landslides, floods, or coastal erosion) results in adaptive hazard management and improved environmental and resource management practices in the affected area. Two case studies of ‘natural disasters’, and the adaptive responses to these disasters taken ... Full abstract
Keywords disasters, adaptive management

Name Kerstin Ehrhardt Lena Bloemertz Andrea Musil	Title German Institutions for Development Cooperation: Are they able to address Global Environmental Change in a sustainable way?	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract It was only recently that governmental development cooperation did get a stronger focus on sustainable development and on counteracting Global Environmental Change. However, although this aspect is now emphasized on to a great extent, governmental development cooperation is often times still mainly oriented on producing economic development. Even cooperation projects ... Full abstract
Keywords interplay, design causality, sustainable development

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Name Klaus Eisenack Jurgen Kropp Matthias Ludeke	Title Construction of archetypes as a formal method to analyze social-ecological systems	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The context-dependence of social-ecological dynamics makes it extremely difficult to draw general conclusions about determinants of effective environmental governance. Generic design factors (e.g. related to fit, interplay and scale) can be too abstract to be applied to concrete environmental problems because every case is different. However, it also appears that ... Full abstract
Keywords methods, archetype analysis

Name Julia Ekstrom	Title Quantifying Institutional Interplay in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract New analytic tools are needed to increase the quantitative analyses conducted in common property studies. Until now the research on institutional interplay has been conducted using qualitative case study methods. This paper introduces a quantitative approach to quantitatively identify, explore, and describe the nature of institutional interplay. This paper is ... Full abstract
Keywords fisheries, fit, interplay, scale

Name Po Garden	Title The consequences of institutional density and interplay for local government in northern Thailand	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract In this paper we show that the impacts of institutional reform in Thailand on the mandate and powers of local government depend substantially on the institutional context in which the new reforms are implanted. In economically developed sub-districts institutional densities are high, and introducing new bodies with their own rules ... Full abstract
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Name Thomas Hahn	Title Lessons from the Sub-Global Assessments: Scaling down the Ecosystem Approach of the CBD to local policies and processes	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This paper analyzes how actors at the local, national and regional levels collaborate to craft responses to degrading ecosystem services. It is based on the findings from 18 Sub-Global Assessments within The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) published in February 2006. Here, we highlight some of the emerging patterns that we ... Full abstract
Keywords assessments, scale, CBD

Name Adnan Hezri Stephen Dovers	Title Informing Institutional Change? Sustainability Indicator Systems and Policy in Malaysia, Australia, and Indonesia	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of an array of information systems to measure sustainability [1, 2]. Interests in developing indicator-based assessments, or generally sustainability indicator systems, pervade all levels of governance and areas of scholarships. The growth of the ‘indicator industry’ is premised on the peculiarity of ... Full abstract
Keywords knowledge

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Name David Huitema Hans Bressers	Title Scaling water governance. The case of the Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract This chapter analyzes how various propositions embedded in the European Water Framework Directive have been ‘scaled down’ to the Netherlands and one specific sub basin of the Rhine. Amongst these propositions are the river basin concept, the river basin administration, and cost recovery. Our contention is that successful scaling of ... Full abstract
Keywords governance, scale

Name David Huitema Wouter Egas	Title Adaptive water management institutions	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Par 1 Theoretical background This paper will explore the meaning of the term adaptive governance for water management institutions. The leading work coming out of the so-called resilience network (Gunderson and Holling, 2002) often uses examples from water management. These authors empathetically make the case that water management should change drastically. ... Full abstract
Keywords adaptive management, water

Name Atsushi Ishii	Title Capturing domestic institutions in the analytical framework of regime interplay – with an exemplar case of Japanese carbon sink policy	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The international carbon management via the Kyoto Protocol is increasingly demanding to embrace regime-interplay between climate and non-climate issues in order to ease implementation of more aggressive climate policy, break the diplomatic stalemate and pave the way for the upcoming post-Kyoto negotiations. It is now high time for IDGEC to ... Full abstract
Keywords interplay, climate policy, global governance

Name Maria Ivanova	Title Means and Capabilities: Explaining the Performance of International Organizations	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The fate, form, and function of international organizations have gained increasing political attention as the United Nations reform process continues. The key question for politicians and policymakers therefore is what institutional design is likely to be most effective, produce most coherence, and encourage most cooperation. To this end, in February ... Full abstract
Keywords performance, international organizations

Name Harish Jeswani Karla Solis	Title Developing countries’ institutions under the Kyoto Protocol: Lessons learned from Pakistan and Peru	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The Kyoto Protocol encourages developing countries to actively participate in the climate change policies through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); which allows investors from developed countries to earn emission credits for investing in clean technology projects in developing countries. The environmental integrity and commercial attractiveness of CDM projects depend on ... Full abstract
Keywords institutional design, DNA, CDM, developing countries

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Name Frank Jotzo Claudio Forner	Title Institutions and criteria for funding climate change adaptation for development	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Climate change affects human systems, and poorer societies tend to be particularly vulnerable. Adapting human systems to changing climatic conditions can reduce negative impacts. Adaptation measures will be necessary in a variety of systems, ranging from agriculture and other natural resource systems, through infrastructure, to human settlements and health. Institutions ... Full abstract
Keywords resilience, climate change, adaptation

Name Stefan Jungcurt	Title Institutional Interplay in the Regime Complex on Plant Genetic Resources – Domestic Politics and Institutional Learning in Interdependent Issue Areas	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The conservation and use of plant genetic resources (PGRs) is regulated through a complex of several international agreements including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture ... Full abstract
Keywords interplay, intellectual property rights

Name Norichika Kanie	Title Functioning Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance: Towards Coordinated Distributive Governance on Climate Change	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Discussion of global environmental governance appears to be stalled. Policy debates focus on reforming formal UN machinery, or on trying to induce governance lessons from the experience of MEAs. The theory of global governance is trying to develop useful mid-level insights from institutionalist and constructivist studies of institutional and knowledge ... Full abstract
Keywords global governance, global environmental institutions

Name Norichika Kanie	Title Japan's climate change policy-making process and multi-stakeholder involvement	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This presentation deals with Japan's climate change policy-making process at the state level, and de-scribes, in general, how it has been difficult for stakeholders, as agencies beyond states, to establish a policy dialogue process with government policy makers. Closer look at the multi stakeholders shows, however, contacts and influence of ... Full abstract
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Name Sylvia Karlsson Marcel Kok	Title Theory, Rhetoric and Action of Mainstreaming the Environment — Institutional Interplay in the Nexus between Climate, Energy and Development	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The importance of integrating the three pillars - economic, social and environmental - of sustainable development is underscored in every possible global policy process since the Brundtland report was published. Much remains to be done, however, to operationalize this in the practice of governance. The political and rhetorical consensus on ... Full abstract
Keywords interplay, climate change, energy, development

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Name Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska Veronika Chobotova	Title Shifting Governance. Managing the Commons: the Case of Slovensky Raj National Park	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This paper explores the role of social capital and governance in rural development within Slovensky Raj National Park. Based on the theory of Common Pool Resources and Network Governance, the case study explores the external and internal influences on cooperation. Current decision making in the Park is still affected ... Full abstract
Keywords interplay, global governance

Name Louis Lebel	Title Institutional Capacities in Flood Risk Reduction: Design and Action of Institutions	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract It happens that wonderful design of institutions, coordination and planning means nothing when it comes to reducing the risk of disastrous river floods in practice. Failures in performance of flood risk reduction institutions define to a high extent vulnerability of societies to natural disasters. How to strengthen institutional capacities for ... Full abstract
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Name Markku Lehtonen	Title Sustainable development and organisational discourse: Could and should the OECD discourse ever change?	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The debates concerning of the role of international organisations in solving – or causing – environmental problems is often phrased in terms of distinctions between coercion and incitation – as exemplified in distinctions between harmonisation, imposition, and diffusion of policy innovations. An organisation without regulatory powers would mainly influence policies ... Full abstract
Keywords discourse

Name Markku Lehtonen Sylvia Karlsson	Title When Is ‘Fit’ Not Enough in Environmental Governance?	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The concept of ‘fit’ entails the imperative to ensure an appropriate fit between the characters of the ecosystem and the institutions or regime created to manage it. The key characteristics of the ecosystem, for example in terms of spatial range, stocks and flows, resilience to shock etc., should guide the ... Full abstract
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Name Andrei Marin	Title (Re)Designing pastoralist institutions to confront environmental change in Mongolia	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The present paper investigates the problem of designing institutions for resources management to confront environmental changes. It will be based on examples from recent institutional changes in Mongolian pastoralism, where herders appear to revert to certain ‘traditional’ kin-based resource management patterns in the wake of complex environmental and socio-economic changes. ... Full abstract
Keywords vulnerability, interplay

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Name Yasuko Matsumoto	Title Analysis of New Regime Interplay Arising from the CDM, and of the Political Implications of Institutional Design Meant to Mitigate Damaging Impacts	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This is a case study of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects for HFC-23 destruction as a new issue of regime interplay between the climate change and ozone layer regimes. It uses an analytical framework which employs the policy interplay concept and three elements called source institution, target institution, and causal ... Full abstract
Keywords interplay, global governance

Name Chanda Meek	Title Evaluating the effect of federal agency culture, structure, and history on institutional performance	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Since 1994, federal agencies responsible for marine mammal management in Alaska have been directed by law to develop co-management agreements with Alaska Native hunters who harvest seals, polar bears, walrus, whales and other marine mammals. While researchers have investigated the role of local community self-organization in the success of co-management ... Full abstract
Keywords performance

Name Edward Miles	Title Principles for designing international environmental institutions	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract This paper responds to three of the four questions which have been posed for the Design Panel. These questions concern how effective international environmental regimes can be designed; whether benefits of particular design elements are contingent on problem structure or to what extent are they transportable; and whether problem ... Full abstract
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Name Kanako Morita	Title A Study of the GEF Financing System for Climate Adaptation Policy	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The purposes of this study are twofold. The first purpose is to demonstrate an effective model of institutions to promote adaptation measures to climate change by introducing the concept of “interplay” among institutions. The other purpose is to add a specific view to the theoretical evolution of “Institutional Interplay”. This ... Full abstract
Keywords resilience, vulnerability, climate change, interplay

Name Tun Myint	Title How do phenomena of globalization shape institutional dimensions of global environmental change?	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract There is no single universally agreed definition of globalization. It is generally agreed that globalization, however, is one of the major forces shaping the future of nation-states and the future of state-centric world order. As human institutions are being transformed by the globalization, globalization’s impacts on human-environment interaction deserve systematic ... Full abstract
Keywords institutional architecture, globalization

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Name Jens Newig Dirk Gunther	Title Network Governance, Institutional Learning and Environmental Effectiveness	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract In the face of apparent failures to govern complex environmental problems by central state, top-down oriented policy-making, new modes of governance have been proposed in recent years. Network governance is an emerging, not yet consolidated concept. Having its roots mainly in the economic (Jones et al. 1997) and policy networks ... Full abstract
Keywords global governance, networks, institutional learning

Name Elena Nikitina	Title Institutional Capacities in Flood Rick Reduction: Design and Action of Institutions	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract It happens that wonderful design of institutions, coordination and planning means nothing when it comes to reducing the risk of disastrous river floods in practice. Failures in performance of flood risk reduction institutions define to a high extent vulnerability of societies to natural disasters. How to strengthen institutional capacities for ... Full abstract
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Name Geoffrey Nwaka	Title The Urban Poor, the Informal City and Environmental Health Policy in Nigeria	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Poverty reduction dominates the international development agenda of the 21st century, and the current Millennium Development Goals underline the need to urgently improve the lives of millions of slum dwellers around the world, and to reduce the number of people without sustainable access to drinking water and sanitation. With the ... Full abstract
Keywords trade, urban, development

Name Emeka Obioha	Title Institutional Response Framework to Climate-Induced Drought and Competing Access to Freshwater in West Africa: The Nigerian Experience	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract In the recent times, due to the increasing rate of global warming, most parts of Nigeria have been experiencing continuous climatic change characterized by drastic reduction in rainfall, increase on the rate of dryness and heat, which makes it a fast growing arid environment. It is observed that since 1970s, ... Full abstract
Keywords water, climate change, adaptation

Name Per Olson	Title Enhancing the fit: Creating and maintaining bridging functions for matching scales in social-ecological systems	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Current approaches for managing ecosystems often fail to match social and ecological structures and processes operating at different spatial and temporal scales. They are often unable to deal with the change and uncertainty inherent in social-ecological systems (SES). This mismatch between ecological and social dynamics is referred to as the ... Full abstract
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Name Gail Osherenko	Title Mismatches in Ocean Governance	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract We know the oceans are in trouble due to climate change, overfishing, invasive species, and pollution. The loss of ecosystem services is measurable in reduced biodiversity, declining food production, coastal erosion, and storm damage costs. The rapid increase in existing uses of the sea (e.g. shipping, desalinization, LNG production ... Full abstract
Keywords fit, ocean governance

Name Claudia Pahl-Wostl	Title Institutional Change: Key to Understanding Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Resources	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Institutional change is essential for a transition towards and for maintaining adaptive and sustainable resource management regimes. However, the scientific understanding of institutional change is still quite limited. What is required is an interdisciplinary approach in the social sciences. Important questions to be addressed are how is institutional change initiated ... Full abstract
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Name Philipp Pattberg Man-san Chan Aysem Mert Frank Biermann	Title The Effectiveness of Transnational Partnerships in Sustainability Politics: A Preliminary Assessment	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The shift from decision-making by governments towards the increasing inclusion of non-state actors has long been observed at the national level, and it stands at the centre of the recent debate on ‘global governance’, which emphasises the growing involvement of private actors, both profit and non-profit, in global standard-setting and ... Full abstract
Keywords private governance

Name Atiq Rahman	Title Improving North-South Dialogue on Climate Change: Enhancing equity, technology empowerment and sustainable development opportunities	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Climate change is one of the key challenges facing mankind today. Scientific efforts led by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is reducing uncertainties and highlighting the potential impacts. Increasing evidence of impacts of extreme weather events including floods, cyclones, drought, glacial melt may threaten developments of countries both in ... Full abstract
Keywords north-south dialogue, climate change

Name Aminur Rahman	Title Global Environmental Change, Institutions and High System Loss in Public Sector Irrigation Projects in Bangladesh: Hard and Soft Options	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract The issue: Agriculture contributes about 30% of the GDP in Bangladesh. However, the agricultural production is heavily dependent on irrigation, which in turn depends on the availability of water. The availability of water has been affected by the global environmental changes in the region since water flows are controlled by ... Full abstract
Keywords water

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Name Marie Rarieya Leslie King	Title Institutional Dimensions of sustainable development initiatives in Western Kenya	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Since the development decade of the 1980’s and in spite of the widespread adoption of the Brundtland report, sustainable development in Africa has remained elusive. Africa has become a graveyard of well-intentioned, although often seemingly theoretically sound, development initiatives. Many of these initiatives have purported to be grassroots, bottom-up, community ... Full abstract
Keywords fit, sustainable development, scale

Name Andreas Rechkemmer	Title The Initiative for the Establishment of a UN Environment Organization (UNEO)	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract In 2003, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to the international community to radically reform the United Nations system. A high-level panel was established to elaborate proposals, which were presented to the UN General Assembly in 2005. In this context, French President Jacques Chirac called for establishing a new United Nations ... Full abstract
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Name Babette Resurreccion	Title Watered Down and Washed Away: Discourses on Gender Mainstreaming Water Governance in the Mekong Region	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Discourses on gender mainstreaming water governance in the Mekong Region has deflected attention from the political project of gender equality, instead implicitly reinforcing the roles of women as mothers and wives in local institutions created for managing common water resources. This is partly the result of policy paradigms that insist ... Full abstract
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Name Jesse Ribot	Title Choose democracy: Environmentalists’ socio-political responsibility	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Environmentalists worldwide are working with local communities to improve natural resource management. But, is their impatience to establish ‘sustainable’ management techniques undermining long-term social and ecological sustainability? Is their choice to impose conservation and management agendas through non-democratic institutions undermining the long-run prospect for democratization and sustainable participatory management and ... Full abstract
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Name Lisa Schipper Emily Boyd Pia Kohler	Title The mutuality of adaptation and natural resource management: exploring synergies	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Climate change has been dubbed the most serious threat facing humanity (UNDP, 2002; Gómez-Echeverri, 2000; O’Riordan, 2000) and the last two decades have witnessed increased effort to understand the most sustainable measures for reversing trends and adjusting to the consequences of climate change. Whether responses should focus on adapting ... Full abstract
Keywords adaptation, climate change

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Name Heike Schroeder	Title Vertical interplay in climate governance	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
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Name Judith Dominguez Serrano	Title Adaptive water governance in Mexico	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract Until not long ago, solutions to water-related issues were undertaken in Mexico from a very limited perspective, completely aside from other environmental problems. Not even today is possible to say that, in this country, an integral management of hydric resources involving both environmental systems and human systems exists. However, it ... Full abstract
Keywords water, adaptive management

Name Bernd Siebenhuner	Title Institutions for Social Learning Towards Sustainable Development	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract The complex problems addressed under the concept of sustainable development preclude simple solutions. Conventional institutions of governmental regulation are challenged by badly fitted institutional arrangements that cannot cope with interconnected causalities, long time frames, large numbers of affected groups and interacting scales ranging from local to global. In addition, governments ... Full abstract
Keywords agency, sustainable development, institutional learning

Name Ram Singh	Title Water Governance - Key to Livelihood, Security and Environmental Sustainability in India: Issues and Responses	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract India will be among the countries worst hit by water scarcity. As India's population is more than one billion, we need to find a solution of the water crisis. The country has uneven and inadequate distribution of water resources. Since 1995, for regulating the water resource, the Ministry of Rural ... Full abstract
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Name Sangeeta Sonak Mahesh Sonak Janet Rubinoff	Title The problems of fit, interplay, scale and competing interests in fisheries management	Paper click here	PowerPoint click here
Abstract Current fishing practices show a global trend of stock depletions. Overfishing was recognized as an international problem in the early 1900s and since then has drawn attention of a number of international programmes, especially directed at environmental managers and the governments of many nations. However, the common pool ... Full abstract
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Name Sangeeta Sonak Saltanat Kazi Mahesh Sonak Mary Abraham	Title Why was traditional common property resource management system more successful in the coastal wetlands of Goa?	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract Changes in land cover and land use are among the most important aspects of global environmental change. Land use and cover changes (LUCC) have become an increasingly important issue, particularly in developing countries such as India. Land-cover change refers to biophysical attributes of the earth’s surface and land-use is the ... Full abstract
Keywords governance, land use, land cover change

Name Sangeeta Sonak Mahesh Sonak Asha Giriyan	Title Exporting hazardous waste: where has the environmental equity gone?	Paper N/A	PowerPoint click here
Abstract Ecological capacity is emerging as a major constraint to economic growth today and more liberal trade is perceived as the best way to overcome the local limits. Trade encourages extensive use of resources by providing a market for all local resource stocks. This results in over consumption of resources by ... Full abstract
Keywords allocative effects, interplay

Name Shanty Syahril Muhammad Tasrif A Taufik Mukhith Lucentezza Napitupulu	Title Building Model, Building Understanding: Lesson Learned from Developing Strategies for Clean Air	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract In developing world, bad governance is being increasingly regarded as one of the root causes of all evil, including environmental problem. Policies directing or guiding the everyday decisions by many individuals are usually not developed by the people affected by these policies (van den Belt, 2004:6). For these reasons, conflicts ... Full abstract
Keywords participatory governance models

Name Luca Tacconi	Title The interplay between governance and economic factors in the sustainable management of tropical forests in developing countries	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract This paper considers the meaning of good governance in the management of tropical forests in developing countries and its interplay with the economic factors affecting forest management and the environmental benefits provided by forests at various scales. The paper questions some of the common assumptions about the meaning of governance ... Full abstract
Keywords interplay, sustainable governance, forests

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Name Monica Tennberg	Title International Environmental Governance in Northwestern Russia: An Assessment of Performance	Paper N/A	PowerPoint N/A
Abstract As a result of more than a decade of international environmental cooperation a complex structure of public-private partnerships has been established in Northwestern Russia including representatives of administration, various companies, funding agencies and non-governmental organizations. This development reflects the changing character of international environmental cooperation towards international governance (Young 1994). ... Full abstract
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Name Kyla Tienhaara	Title Investment institutions and global environmental change	Paper click here	PowerPoint N/A
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