Institutions, the rules of the game that shape repeated human interactions, clearly play a critical role in helping groups avoid the inefficient use of shared resources such as fisheries, freshwater, and the assimilative capacity of the environment. Institutions, however, are intimately intertwined with the human, social, and biophysical context within which they operate. Scholars typically are...

This article asks whether inter-institutional arrangements (IIAs) can facilitate norm understandings of sustainability in the global food regime complex to ensure implementation SDG 2. It refers theories and complexes focuses on two explanatory factors: non-material resources (authority knowledge) interplay management (participation interaction). The deals with three case studies: Codex Aliment...

Abstract This study offers insights into the institutional arrangements established to coordinate policies aiming at mitigation of and adaptation climate change. Drawing on literature policy design, we highlight as elements design spaces contend that they fall four categories either stress political or problem orientation this activity: optimal, technical, political, sub-optimal. We use origina...

Abstract The advent of forest concessions in the Brazilian Amazon generated expectation an increase supply legal timber and concomitant conservation public forests not yet reached. aim this article was to analyze Brazil’s experience with for private companies since approval Public Forest Management Act (LGFP), 11.284/2006, from perspective local institutional arrangements. We analyzed documenta...

BACKGROUND The term global health governance (GHG) is now widely used, with over one thousand works published in the scholarly literature, almost all since 2002. Amid this rapid growth there is considerable variation in how the term is defined and applied, generating confusion as to the boundaries of the subject, the perceived problems in practice, and the goals to be achieved through instituti...

Over the past decades, science funding shows a shift from recurrent block funding towards project funding mechanisms. However, our knowledge of how project funding arrangements influence the organizational and epistemic properties of research is limited. To study this relation, a bridge between science policy studies and science studies is necessary. Recent studies have analyzed the relation be...