Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change: Perspectives from Science, Sociology and the Law Book

1	Introduction	1
2	Dimensions and mechanisms of global climate change	37
3	Global climate change : what can we learn from the past?	67
4	The social embeddedness of global environmental governance	79
5	Globalising a green civil society : in search of conceptual clarity	106
6	Private authority, global governance, and the law	149
7	Responsibility of transnational corporations in international environmental law : three perspectives	179
8	Transboundary corporate responsibility in environmental matters : fragments and foundations for a future framework	200
9	The diffusion of environmental policy innovations	227
10	Process-related measures and global environmental governance	254
11	The impact of the USA on regime formation and implementation	275
12	Transnational bureaucracy networks : a resource of global environmental governance?	305
13	The EU : a regional model?	333
14	Transition and governance : the case of post-communist states	358
15	Multilateral environmental agreements and the compliance continuum	387
16	On clustering international environmental agreements	409
17	Institutions, knowledge, and change : findings from the quantitative study of environmental regimes	430
18	Regulatory competition and developing countries and the challenge for compliance push and pull measures	455
19	Policy instrument innovation in the European Union : a realistic model for international environmental governance?	470
20	Financial instruments and cooperation in implementing international agreements for the global environment	493
21	Global environmental change and the nation state : sovereignty bounded?	519
22	Whose environment? Concepts of commonality in international environmental law	539
23	Globalising environmental liability : the interplay of national and international law	559
24	The legal nature of environmental principles in international, EU, and exemplary national law	587