Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change: Perspectives from Science, Sociology and the Law.

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Edited by Gerd Winter. 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013: Cambridge University Press, April 2006. (212) 924-3900. www.cambridge.org. ISBN 0-521-85261-7. 652 pp. $130.00 Hardback.

This collection is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research project involving scholars in the fields of international and comparative environmental law, the sociology and politics of global governance, and the scientific study of global climate change. Earth system analysis as developed by the natural sciences is transferred to the analysis of institutions of global environmental change. Rather than one overarching supranational organization, a system of multilevel institutions is advocated. The...