• List of contributors; Introduction Gerd Winter; Part I. Earth System Analysis: 1. Dimensions and mechanisms of global climate change Peter Lemke; 2. Global climate change - what can we learn from the past? Stefan Rahmstorf; Part II. Society and Institutions of Global Environmental Change: 3. The social embeddedness of global environmental governance Karl-Werner Brand and Fritz Reusswig; 4. Globalising a green civil society Asher Alkoby; Part III. Self-Regulation of Industry and the Law: 5. Private authority, global governance and the law Martin Herberg; 6. Responsibility of transnational corporations in international environmental law: three perspectives André Nollkaemper; 7. Transboundary corporate responsibility in environmental matters: fragments and foundations for a future framework Jonas Ebbesson; 8. The diffusion of environmental policy innovations Kerstin Tews; 9. Process related measures and global environmental governance Christian Tietje; 10. The impact of the U.S.A. on regime formation and implementation Thomas Giegerich; 11. Transnational bureaucracy networks, a resource of global environmental governance? Michael Warning; 12. The EU - a regional model? Ludwig Kraemer; 13. Transition and governance: the case of post-Communist states Stephen Stec, Alexios Antypas and Tamara Steger; 14. Multilateral environmental agreements and the compliance continuum Jutta Brunnée; 15. On clustering international environmental agreements Konrad von Moltke; 16. Institutions, knowledge and change: findings from the quantitative study of environmental regimes Helmut Breitmeier; 17. Regulatory competition and developing countries and the challenge for compliance - push and pull measures Joyeeta Gupta; 18. Policy instrument innovation in the European Union: a realistic model for international environmental governance? Andrew Jordan, Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel and Anthony R. Zito; 19. Financial instruments and cooperation in implementing international agreements for the global environment Charlotte Streck; 20. Global environmental change and the nation state: sovereignty bounded? Peter H. Sand; 21. Whose environment? - concepts of commonality in international environmental law Michael Bothe; 22. Globalising environmental liability: the interplay of national and international law A. E. Boyle; 23. The legal nature of environmental principles in international, EU and exemplary national law Gerd Winter.

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