| ISBN: | 9780262512367
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| eISBN: | 9780262258593
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| 专著题名: | Managers of Global Change |
| 其他题名: | 全球变化管理者
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| 作者: | Biermann,Frank; Siebenh¨¹ner,Bernd
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| 出版者: | MIT Press
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| 出版年: | 2009-07-24
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| 国家: | 美国
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文摘要: | International bureaucracies--highly visible, far-reaching actors of global governance in areas that range from finance to the environment--are often derided as ineffective, inefficient, and unresponsive. Yet despite their prominence in many debates on world politics, little scholarly attention has been given to their actual influence in recent years. Managers of Global Change fills this gap, offering conceptual analysis and case studies of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in the area of environmental governance--one of the most institutionally dynamic areas of world politics. The book seeks to resolve a puzzling disparity: although most international bureaucracies resemble each other in terms of their institutional and legal settings (their mandate, the countries to which they report, their general function), the roles they play and their actual influence vary greatly. The chapters investigate the type and degree of influence that international environmental bureaucracies exert and whether external or internal factors account for variations. After a discussion of theoretical context, research design, and empirical methodology, the book presents nine in-depth case studies of bureaucracies ranging from the environment department of the World Bank to the United Nations' climate and desertification secretariats. Managers of Global Change points the way to a better understanding of the role of international bureaucracies, which could improve the legitimacy of global decision making and resolve policy debates about the reform of the United Nations and other bodies. |
| 资源类型: | 专著
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/73328
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候变化与战略
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Biermann,Frank,Siebenh¨¹ner,Bernd. Managers of Global Change[M]:MIT Press,2009-07-24.
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