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Global environmental assessments [electronic resource] : information and influence / edited by Ronald B. Mitchell ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Mitchell, Ronald B. (Ronald Bruce) | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Global environmental accords: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006Description: xiv, 344 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Environmental policy -- International cooperation | Environmental protection -- International cooperation | Environmental impact analysis -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 333.7 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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