The Social Aspects of Environmental and Climate Change : Institutional Dynamics Beyond a Linear Model (Hardcover)

Chapter 1: Aim and scope of the book Chapter 2: The origins of climate change research and assumptions within the field Chapter 3: The role of theory and case studies in social science: means to understanding institutions and contextualising instruments Chapter 4: The complex of issues influencing action on climate change: examples from forestry and multi-level cases Chapter 5: Why knowledge is not enough: limits to communication and learning Chapter 6: Why understanding stakeholder participation requires understanding power and institutions Chapter 7: Understanding environment, society, and scale: why outcomes of the same types of measures are not the same everywhere, and local level is not only local Chapter 8: Conclusion: implications of an institutional understanding