Designing institutions for governing planetary boundaries - Lessons from global forest governance

Ecological Economics

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-40

  Reischl, Gunilla ^a  

^a Swedish Institute of International Affairs   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Forest regime complex; Global environmental politics; Institutional design; Institutional fit; Institutional interplay

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; FORESTRY POLICY; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 84865100764     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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