How Institutions Change

Dr. Heiko Breit, Deutsches Institut für internationale pädagogische Forschung, Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Dr. Anita Engels, Institut für Weltgesellschaft, Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld, Germany; Dr. Timothy Moss, Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung (IRS), Erkner, Germany; Dr.Markus Troja, MEDIATOR GmbH, Oldenburg, Germany.

• Preface.- Foreword.- Institutional Change and Social Learning in Environmental Contexts: An Introduction.- I: Reshaping Institutions.- Of Course International Institutions Matter: But When and How?.- Learning in International Public Policy Networks. Managing Institutional Interplay between National and International Forest Programmes.- Solving Problems of ‘Fit’ at the Expense of Problems of ‘Interplay’? The Spatial Reorganisation of Water Management Following the EU Water Framework Directive.- Using Market Institutions for Sustainability: Environmental Production Standards in the Coffee Trade.- II: Linking Institutional Change to Social Practice.- Institutionalisation of Ecological Risk Perceptions: The Role of Climate Change Discourses in Germany.- Politics, Law and Citizens’ Responsibility. Justice Judgements in the Everday Reconstruction of Environmental Conflicts.- Institutional Dynamics of Changing Land Care Practices in the Central Namib Desert.- III: Institutionalising Social Learning.- Resolving Environmental Conflicts. Mediation and Negotiation as Institutional Capacities for Social Learning.- Myths and Laws: Changing Institutions of Indigenous Marine Resource Management in Central America.- Lessons Drawn from Burden Sharing Exercises. The EC Acidification and Climate Change Policies.- Social Learning at the Science-Policy Interface — A Comparison of the IPCC and the Scientific Assessments LRTAP Convention.- Conclusions.- Institutional Change in Environmental Contexts.- About the Authors.