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 Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

Volume 1:  A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

The Social Learning Group
The MIT Press, 2001

Part I: Overview

Chapter 1
Managing Global Environmental Change: 
An Introduction to the Volume

William C. Clark, Jill Jäger, and Josee van Eijndhoven

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1.1 Challenges for Management
1.2 Challenges for Understanding
1.3 The Design of This Study
1.3.1 Issue Histories
1.3.2 Arenas and Actors
1.3.3 Describing Issue Development
1.3.4 Analyzing Issue Development
1.4 The Organization of this Book
Appendix 1A

Acronyms
Notes
References

Figure 1.1 A taxonomy of hazard management
Box 1.1 Key definitions and terminology
Box 1.2 Management functions
Box 1.3 Criteria for evaluating efforts to link knowledge with action

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