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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 II: Studies of Arenas

Chapter 13
Amplifiers or Dampeners: 
International Institutions and Social Learning
 in the Management of Global Environmental Risks

Peter M. Haas and David McCabe

13.1 Introduction
13.2 Institutional Histories
13.2.1 Acid Rain
13.2.2 Ozone Depletion
13.2.3  Climate Change
13.3 Knowledge and Action in the Management of Global Environmental Risks
13.3.1 Acid Rain
13.3.2 Ozone Depletion
13.3.3 Climate Change
13.3.4 Reprise
13.4 International Institutions and Lesson Drawing: How are We Doing?
13.4.1 Learning by the Institution
13.4.2 Learning by Members of Institutions
Appendix 13A  Acronyms
Appendix 13B Chronology
Notes
References
Table 13.1 Core groups of experts involved in the climate change issue
Table 13.2 Institutional features of major international institutions engaged in managing global atmospheric risks
Table 13.3 Environmental expenditures by major international institutions
Figure 13.1 Acid rain information flow
Figure 13.2 Ozone depletion information flow
Figure 13.3 Climate change information flow

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