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 Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

Volume 2:  A Functional Analysis of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

The Social Learning Group
The MIT Press, 2001

Part IV: Conclusion

Chapter 22
The Long-term Development of Global Environmental Risk Management: Conclusions and Implications for the Future

Josee van Eijndhoven, William C. Clark and Jill Jäger

22.1 What is the relationship between issue attention cycles and the performance of management functions in the development of society’s response to global environmental risks?
22.1.1 Long Term Trends in Concern and Capacity
22.1.2 Partial Synchrony in Issue Attention Cycles
22.1.3 Management Functions in the Issue Attention Cycle
22.1.4 An emergent international rationality in management responses to global environmental risks?
22.2 How did ideas, interests, and institutions shape the development of social responses to global environmental risks?
22.2.1 Ideas and Issue Framing
22.2.2 Interests and Actor Coalitions
22.2.3 Institutional Capacity and Public Attention
22.2.4 Pathways and Mechanisms for Spreading New Ideas and Experience
22.2.5 Perspectives on Issue Development
22.3 What are the implications of this study for improving global environmental risk management?
22.3.1 Issue Framing
22.3.2 Risk Assessment and Monitoring
22.3.3   Goals and Strategy Formulation and Implementation
22.3.4 Option Assessment and Evaluation
22.3.5 Implications for Emerging Issues
Appendix 22A Acronyms
Notes
References

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