Global environmental change is occurring at a rate faster than humans have ever experienced. Climate change and the loss of ecosystem services are the two main

Climate change places demand on existing governance structures to reform and work more effectively than in the past. In response, greater attention to and fundi

Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS. She argues t

A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas - Bologna, Bordeaux, Geneve-Lausanne, Lyons, Manchester, Rotterdam, Stuttgart and Torino - examining key u

This book examines the various ways in which some fragile states in the Global South (or states with limited statehood) have adopted, and adapted to, processes

As water scarcities increase, nations throughout the world are in search of better institutions to manage water resources. India has been making substantial eff

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Syst