Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change /

• Main Author: Skodvin, Tora. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 5
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Philosophy.; Atmospheric sciences.; Social sciences.; Sociology.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Philosophy, general.; Sociology, general.
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Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. Science-policy interaction is, however, complex and difficult, particularly because it is an encounter between two distinct systems of behaviour: the scientific ideal of impartiality and di...

Table of Contents:

• Effectiveness in Processes of Science-Policy Interaction
• The Science-Policy Nexus
• Designing Institutions for Science-Policy Interaction
• The Development of an International Regime on a Human-Induced Climate Change
• Structure: The Institutional Design of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Agent: Leadership Performance in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Causal Relationship: Real or Spurious?
• Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change.