By Sebastian Oberthür, Thomas Gehring

This systematic research of the interplay between foreign and ecu associations offers either a theoretical framework for research and the 1st large evaluate of this mostly uncharted box of study. by way of providing unique case reports and a scientific research of effects, the e-book examines the results of institutional interplay on environmental governance and explores the ways that foreign and ecu Union guidelines can both toughen or undercut one another.After a conceptual review within which Oberthür and Gehring establish 3 causal mechanisms wherein institutional interplay can impact environmental governance, ten case stories follow this theoretical technique. Six circumstances use a world establishment as their place to begin and 4 commence with a ecu Union criminal tool. The overseas regimes tested comprise the commonly identified conference on foreign alternate in Endangered Species of untamed natural world (CITES), conference on organic variety (CBD), and global alternate association and United countries Framework conference on weather swap (UNFCCC). the ecu tools analyzed comprise lesser-known directives at the safeguard of habitats, the planned free up of genetically changed organisms into the surroundings, and air caliber. The reports exhibit that even if clash and interference between diversified regimes and associations do happen, synergistic interactions are universal. The findings at the value of, and mechanisms in the back of, those results provide beneficial insights for either students and policymakers.Contributors:Beatrice Chaytor, Clare Coffey, Andrew Farmer, Thomas Gehring, John Lanchbery, Sebastian Oberthür, Alice Palmer, G. Kristin Rosendal, Jon Birger Skjærseth, Olav Schram Stokke, Ingmar von Homeyer, Jacob Werksman, Jørgen Wettestad