The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, and Scale.

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Oran R. Young. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002. (800) 405-1619. mitpress-orders@mit.edu http://mitpress.mit.edu. 190 pp. Softbound.

The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, and Scale presents a common structure for conducting research on the role institutions play in causing and confronting environmental change. The structure is based on the analytic themes identified in the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan. Young uses various examples of environmental change to illustrate his arguments for analytical symmetry, ranging in scale from depletion of a local species to global climate change. The author addresses theoretical concerns of collective-action...

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