Note: Intro -- International Encyclopedia of Human Geography -- Table of Contents -- Senior Editors -- Section Editors -- Foreword by Mary Robinson -- Foreword by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift -- Permission Acknowledgments -- A -- Activism -- Activist Geographies -- Actor-Network Theory/Network Geographies -- Affect -- Africa -- Ageing and Health -- Ageing and Mobility -- Ageism and Age -- Agglomeration -- Agoraphobia -- Agrarian Transformations -- Agri-Environmentalism and Rural Change -- Agricultural Land Preservation -- Agriculture, Sustainable -- Aid -- von Humboldt, A. -- Aménagement du Territoire: Territorial Development -- Americas -- Anarchism/Anarchist Geography -- Anglo-American/Anglophone Hegemony -- Animal Geographies -- Animal Welfare, Agricultural -- Antarctica -- Anthropogeography (After Ratzel) -- Anthropology and Human Geography -- Anti-Geopolitics -- Anti-Urbanism -- Apartheid/Post-Apartheid -- Applied Geography -- Archives -- Arctic -- Art and Cartography -- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems -- Asia -- Atlases -- Australasia -- Auto-Photography -- Autobiography -- Autoethnography -- Avant-Garde/Avant-Garde Geographies -- Aviation -- B -- Balkans -- Barnes, T. -- Beaujeu-Garnier, J. -- Becoming -- Behavioral Geography -- Belonging -- Berkeley School -- Berry, B. -- Biodiversity -- Biodiversity Mapping -- Biopolitics -- Bobek, H. -- Body, The -- Borderlands -- Bowman, I. -- Brain Drain -- Brandt Commission -- Brown Agenda -- Buffer Zone -- Business Services -- C -- Capital and Space -- Capitalism -- Capitalism and Division of Labor -- Care/Caregiving -- Cartographic Animation -- Cartography in Islamic Societies -- Cartography, History of -- Case Study Approach -- Cassa per il Mezzogiorno -- Categorical Data Analysis -- Cellular Automata -- Census Geography -- Census Mapping -- Central Business District -- Central Place Theory. , Chaos and Complexity -- Chicago School -- Child Labor -- Children and Mapping -- Children/Childhood -- Chinese Urbanism -- Chinese-Language Geography -- Choice Modeling -- Christaller, W. -- Christian Geography -- Chronic Disease -- Citation Geography -- Citizenship -- Citizenship and Governmentality, Rural -- City Marketing -- City-Region -- Civil Society -- Claval, P. -- Climate Change -- Cloke, P. -- Cognitive Geography -- Cohen, S. -- Cold War -- Colonialism I -- Colonialism II -- Colonialism, Internal -- Color, Mapping -- Commodity Chains -- Communicable Diseases, Globalization of -- Communist and Post-Communist Geographies -- Community -- Competitiveness -- Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Complexity Theory, Nonlinear Dynamic Spatial Systems -- Computational Human Geography -- Concentrated Deconcentration -- Conservation and Ecology -- Consumption -- Content Analysis -- Corbridge, S. -- Core-Periphery Models -- Corporate Responsibilities -- Corridor and Axis Development -- Cosgrove, D. -- Cosmopolitanism -- Counter-Mapping -- Counterurbanization -- Cox, K. -- Creativity -- Crime/Fear of Crime -- Critical Cartography -- Critical Geography -- Critical Geopolitics -- Critical GIS -- Critical Rationalism (After Popper) -- Critical Realism/Critical Realist Geographies -- Critical Theory (After Habermas) -- Cross-Cultural Research -- Cultural Capital -- Cultural Economy -- Cultural Geography -- Cultural Materialism -- Cultural Politics -- Cultural Studies and Human Geography -- Cultural Turn -- Culture -- Culture/Natures -- Cumulative Causation -- Cyberspace/Cyberculture -- D -- Darby, H. C. -- Darwinism (and Social Darwinism) -- De-Industrialization -- De-Localization -- Dear, M. J. -- Debt -- Deconstruction -- Defensible Space -- Deforestation -- Democracy -- Demography -- Dependency -- Statistics, Descriptive -- Desertification. , Determinism/Environmental Determinism -- Development I -- Development II -- Developmentalism -- Devolution -- Dialectical Reasoning and Dialectical Materialism -- Dialogism (After Bakhtin) -- Diaries (Video, Audio or Written) -- Diaspora -- Dicken, P. -- Difference/Politics of Difference -- Diffusion -- Digital Data, Historical Geography and -- Digital Divide -- Digital Earth -- Disability and Chronic Illness -- Discourse -- Discourse Analysis -- Disease Diffusion -- Disease Mapping -- Distance -- Dudley Stamp, L. -- Dutch Human Geography -- Dwelling -- E -- e-Business and e-Commerce -- East Asian Miracle -- East/West -- Ecological Fallacy -- Ecology -- Economic Crises -- Economic Development, Rural -- Economic Geography -- Economic Geography, Quantitative -- Economics and Human Geography -- Economies, Alternative -- Economies, Borderland -- Economies, Branch Plant -- Economies, Imagined -- Economy, Informal -- Ecotourism -- Edge Cities -- Edge Effects -- Education -- Electoral Cartography -- Electoral Districts -- Electoral Geography -- Embeddedness -- Embodied Knowing -- Emigration -- Emotional Geographies -- Emotional Knowing -- Empire -- Empowerment -- Enlightenment Geography -- Enterprise Discourse -- Entrepreneurship -- Entropy-Maximising Models -- Environment -- Environment, Historical Geography of -- Environmental Hazards -- Environmental Health -- Environmental Justice -- Environmental Policy -- Environmental Regulation -- Environmental Security -- Environmental Studies and Human Geography -- Environmentalism -- Epidemiological Transition -- Equity -- Error (Propagation and Modeling) -- Ethical Issues in Research -- Ethnic Conflict -- Ethnic Economies -- Ethnicity -- Ethnicity and Resistance, Historical Geographies of -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology/Ethnomethodological Geography -- Eurocentrism -- Europe -- Europe of Regions. , Evans, E. E. -- Evolutionary Algorithms -- Transnational Elites -- Existentialism/Existential Geography -- Experimental Design -- Exploration -- Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis -- Export Processing Zones -- Extended Metropolitan Region -- F -- Factor Analysis and Principal-Components Analysis -- Fair Trade -- Famine -- Fatherland/Homeland -- Feminism and Work -- Feminism, Maps and GIS -- Feminism/Feminist Geography -- Feminist Geography, Prehistory of -- Feminist Groups within Geography -- Feminist Methodologies -- Feminist Political Economy -- Fertility -- Festival and Spectacle -- Feudalism and Feudal Society -- Field Geographies -- Field Systems and Enclosure -- Fieldwork -- Film -- Finance, Historical Geographies of -- Finance, Offshore -- Financial Centers, International -- Financial Exclusion -- Financial Knowledge -- Financial Risks and Management -- Firms -- First Law of Geography -- First World -- Flâneur, The -- Fluidity-Fixity -- Focus Groups -- Food Networks -- Food Networks, Alternative -- Food Regimes -- Fordism -- Fordism, Post-Fordism and Flexible Specialization -- Foreign Direct Investment -- Foucauldianism -- Fractal Analysis -- Francophone Geography -- Functionalism (Including Structural Functionalism) -- Fuzzy Set and Fuzzy Logic -- G -- Gardens and Gardening -- Garrison, W. -- Gated Communities/Privatopias -- Gay Geographies -- Gender and Health -- Gender and Rurality -- Gender in the City -- Gender, Historical Geographies of -- Genealogy and Family History -- Genealogy Method -- Generalization -- Genetics -- Gentrification -- Gentrification, Rural -- Geocomputation -- Geodemographics -- Geodesy -- Geographical Journals -- Geographical Masking -- Geographically Weighted Regression -- Geography, History of -- Geohistory -- Geomatics -- Geopolitics -- Geopolitics and Religion -- Georeferencing, Geocoding. , Geospatial Intelligence -- Geovisualization -- German-Language Geography -- Gerrymandering -- Ghettos -- GIS and Cartography -- GIS and Society -- GIS, Mobile and Locational Based Services -- GIS, Public Participation -- GIScience and Systems -- Global Commodity Chains -- Global Positioning/GPS -- Global Production Networks -- Globalization and Transnational Corporations -- Transport and Globalization -- Globalization, Cultural -- Globalization, Economic -- Golledge, R. -- Gottmann, J. -- Governance -- Governance, Corporate -- Governance, Good -- Governance, Transport -- Governance, Urban -- Governmentality -- Green Revolution -- Greenfield Development -- Gregory, D. -- Grounded Theory -- Growth Poles, Growth Centers -- H -- Habitus -- Hagerstrand, T. -- Haggett, P. -- Haptic or Touch-Based Knowledge -- Harley, J. B. -- Hartshorne, R. -- Harvey, D. -- Health and Development -- Health Geography -- Health Inequalities -- Health Services Restructuring -- Health Systems and Health Services -- Healthcare Accessibility -- Hegemony -- Heritage -- Heritage and Culture -- Heritage and Economy -- Heritage and Identity -- Heteronormativity -- Hettner, A. -- High-Tech Industry -- Hinterland Development -- Trade, Transport and Communications, Historical Geographies of -- Historical Geographies, Rural -- Historical Geographies, Urban -- Historical Geography -- War, Historical Geography and -- Historical Geography, Evolution of -- Urban Morphologies, Historical -- Historical-Geographical Materialism -- HIV/AIDS in Developed Countries -- HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries -- Home -- Homelessness -- Homelessness, Rural -- Housing -- Housing, Neighbourhoods and Health -- Housing, Rural -- Hub Network Location -- Human Geography -- Urban Planning and Human Geography -- Human Rights -- Human-Nonhuman -- Humanism/Humanistic Geography -- Hybridity -- Hypothesis Testing -- I. , Idealism/Idealist Human Geography.

Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Quest for Transdisciplinarity in Small-Scale Fisheries Governance -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 About this Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Too Big To Ignore - A Transdisciplinary Journey -- 2.1 A Global Look at Small-Scale Fisheries -- 2.2 The Need for a Large-Scale Research Network -- 2.3 Identification of the Big Questions -- 2.4 The Focus on Knowledge Sharing and Integration -- 2.5 The Role of Transdisciplinary Capacity Building -- 2.6 Looking Forward -- Appendix 2.1 -- List of TBTI Book Volumes, E-book Publications and Journal Special Issues -- References -- Part II: Broadening the Scope -- Chapter 3: The Value of Values for Understanding Transdisciplinary Approaches to Small-Scale Fisheries -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Transdisciplinary Approaches to Values in Small-Scale Fisheries -- 3.2.1 Economic Valuation -- 3.2.2 Ecosystem Services -- 3.2.3 Political Economy -- 3.2.4 Social Wellbeing -- 3.2.5 Interactive Governance -- 3.2.6 Post-normal Science -- 3.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Fish and Food Security in Small-Scale Fisheries -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Fisheries and Food Security -- 4.3 Linking Fish Nutrition to Food Security -- 4.4 Fish, Food, and Culture -- 4.5 Fish as a Linkage Between Ecosystem Health and Human Well-Being -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Broadening the Knowledge Base of Small-Scale Fisheries through a Food Systems Framework: A Case Study of the Lake Superior Region -- 5.1 The Lake Superior Fisheries Governance System -- 5.2 A Food Systems Framework -- 5.3 Three Illustrative Case Studies -- 5.3.1 Batchewana First Nation Fisheries -- 5.3.2 Eat the Fish -- 5.3.3 Bodin's Fisheries -- 5.4 Discussion -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Strengthening the Base. , Chapter 6: Economic Viability of Small-Scale Fisheries: A Transdisciplinary Evaluation Approach -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A Transdisciplinary Approach to Economic Viability -- 6.3 Methodology -- 6.3.1 Attribute-Based Approach -- 6.3.2 Assessment of Economic Viability -- 6.4 Relating Attributes to Economic Viability -- 6.5 Case Study: Mexico -- 6.5.1 Case Study Context -- 6.6 Defining Mexican Small- and Large-Scale Fisheries -- 6.6.1 Basic Economic Viability -- 6.6.1.1 Data Sources of Basic Economic Viability -- 6.6.1.2 Results of Basic Economic Viability -- 6.6.2 Extended Economic Viability -- 6.6.2.1 Data Sources for Extended Economic Viability -- 6.6.2.2 Results of Extended Economic Viability Assessment -- 6.6.3 Policy Recommendations and Conclusions Based on the Economic Viability Assessment of Mexican Fisheries -- 6.7 Discussion and Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix 6.1: Glossary -- Appendix 6.2: Equations -- Appendix 6.3: Tables Showing Data Sources for Each Attribute -- References -- Chapter 7: Gender Perspective in Fisheries: Examples from the South and the North -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Searching for Women's Visibility in Fisheries: Feminist Research and International Legal Framework -- 7.2.1 International Legal and Institutional Frames Securing Women and Gender Equality -- 7.3 Conceptualizing and Constructing Gender in Contexts and Empowerment -- 7.3.1 Gender Empowerment: What to Measure -- 7.4 Women in Fisheries - A Few Examples -- 7.4.1 Pre-harvesting and Household Work -- 7.4.2 Harvesting Activities, Property Rights, and Management of Territories and Resources -- 7.4.3 Women in Harvesting -- 7.4.4 Post-harvesting Activities -- 7.4.4.1 Selling and Artisanal Processing of Fish -- 7.4.4.2 Women in Industrial Processing -- 7.5 Women Organizations and Participation in Decision Making -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References. , Chapter 8: Markets, Distribution and Value Chains in Small-Scale Fisheries: A Special Focus on Europe -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Main Initiatives and Strategies to Promote Small-Scale Fisheries Products and Improve Market Opportunities Around the World -- 8.2.1 Direct Marketing Arrangements -- 8.2.2 Certification and Labels -- 8.3 Challenges in the Trade of Small-Scale Fisheries Products in the European Union -- 8.3.1 Sector Organization -- 8.3.2 Marketing Standards -- 8.3.3 Consumer Information -- 8.3.4 Competition Rules and Market Intelligence -- 8.4 Transdisciplinarity in Action: An Example of Small-Scale Fishery Marketing in the Canary Islands -- 8.4.1 Research Methods in Small-Scale Fisheries Markets in Tenerife -- 8.4.2 Some Results from Market Research in Tenerife -- 8.4.3 Some Proposals and Actions -- 8.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9: Governing for Viability: The Case of Velondriake Locally Managed Marine Area in Madagascar -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Village and the Fisheries -- 9.3 The Governability of Velondriake LMMA -- 9.3.1 The Diverse, Complex and Dynamic Fisheries Systems -- 9.3.2 The LMMA as a Governing Institution -- 9.4 Lessons from the Velondriake LMMA -- 9.5 Strengthening the Base with Transdisciplinary Perspective -- References -- Part IV: Enhancing the Stewardship -- Chapter 10: Stewardship and Sustainable Practices in Small-Scale Fisheries -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Key Concepts -- 10.2.1 Stewardship -- 10.2.2 Sustainable Practices -- 10.3 Stewardship and Sustainability -- 10.4 Supporting Services, Pre-harvest, and Harvest -- 10.5 Postharvest, Distribution, and Consumption -- 10.6 Inter-sectoral Coordination Mechanisms Support Stewardship -- 10.6.1 Integrated Coastal Area Management and Marine Spatial Planning -- 10.6.2 Marine Protected Areas and Their Networks -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References. , Chapter 11: Interplay Between Local and Global: Change Processes and Small-Scale Fisheries -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Vulnerabilities of Small-Scale Fisheries -- 11.3 Building on Strengths to Increase Viability -- 11.4 Global Change Responses -- 11.5 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12: Enhancing the Stewardship in Trat Bay, Eastern Thailand: A Transdisciplinary Exercise -- 12.1 Stewardship and Small-Scale Fisheries -- 12.2 Trat Bay Situation Overview and the Transdisciplinary Workshop -- 12.3 Governability Analysis of Trat Bay -- 12.3.1 A Rich and Productive Ecosystem Supporting Diverse Fisheries -- 12.3.2 Dynamic Social Systems Affecting Sustainability -- 12.3.3 Complex Governing System Lowering Governability -- 12.3.4 Wicked Problems in Trat Bay Within and Beyond Fisheries -- 12.4 Ways Forward to Enhancing Stewardship -- 12.4.1 Innovative Policies Aligning with the Local Context -- 12.4.2 Strengthening Local Organizations -- 12.4.3 Building Alliance with Other Sectors -- References -- Part V: Defending the Beach -- Chapter 13: Strategies and Policies Supporting Small-Scale Fishers' Access and  Conservation Rights in a Neoliberal World -- 13.1 Introduction: Why Small-Scale Fishers Tend to Lose Access to Fish and Fishing Benefits -- 13.2 Strategy 1. Local or National Institutions Hold and Lease Out Access Privileges According to Place-Based and Sustainability Criteria -- 13.2.1 The Cape Cod Fisheries Trust in Massachusetts, USA -- 13.2.2 The Thorupstrand Coastal Fishermen's Guild in Denmark -- 13.2.3 The Namibian Government Holds and Leases Out IQs on a Temporary Basis -- 13.2.4 The Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program, USA -- 13.3 Strategy 2. State Uses Non-market Mechanisms to Limit and Transfer Permits -- 13.4 Strategy 3. Local Bodies Limit Sale or Allocation of Access Privileges to Local Fishers. , 13.5 Strategy 4. State Prohibits Access Privileges Going to Non-fishers -- 13.6 Strategy 5. Successful Resistance by Artisanal Fisheries to Overfishing by Larger Gear and Habitat Destruction by Development Projects -- 13.6.1 Dominican Republic Community Protects Local Waters from Outsiders' Destructive Gear -- 13.6.2 Malawi Fishers' Committees Protect Local Waters from Outsiders' Destructive Gear -- 13.6.3 Lummi Tribe and Coalition in Washington State, USA, Defeats Attempt to Build Habitat-Destroying Coal Port Terminal -- 13.7 Strategy 6. Local Governing Body Exercises Conservation Rights in British Columbia, Canada -- 13.8 Strategy 7. Alternative Marketing Strategies by Small-Scale Fishers Bypass Corporate Fish Processors and Gain Market Power -- 13.8.1 Direct Marketing of Higher Quality Fish for a Better Price, Alaska and Washington State, USA -- 13.8.2 Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs): Social Enterprises That Use Market Power to Support a Broader Range of Benefits -- 13.9 Strategy 8. State Regulation or Re-regulation Dampens Neoliberal Control Mechanisms -- 13.10 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14: The Small-Scale Fisheries of Indigenous Peoples: A Struggle for Secure Tenure Rights -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The Legal Status of Indigenous Fishing Peoples -- 14.3 Indigenous Peoples - Recognition of Fishing Tenure -- 14.3.1 Norway -- 14.3.2 Australia -- 14.3.3 Nicaragua -- 14.3.4 South Africa -- 14.4 Discussion -- 14.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: Defending the Beach: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Small-Scale Fisheries in Pernambuco, Brazil -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Untangling the Wicked Problems of Small-Scale Fisheries -- 15.2.1 The Legal Framework of the Small-Scale Fisheries System to Be Governed: Territoriality, Tradition, and Sustainable Use -- 15.3 Interactions and Governing System(s) Quality. , 15.3.1 The Northern Coast Fishing Territory Policy and Multi-Stakeholder Council.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Building the City of Kings: Environmental Consciousness and the Construction of Colonial Lima, Peru, 1535-1625 -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Historiography -- Founding the City of Kings -- Urban Growth -- Building Materials -- Environmental Influences on Architecture and Design -- Conclusion -- References -- Articles in Journals -- Conference Proceedings -- Dissertations -- Books -- Edited Books -- Articles in Edited Books -- Electronic Media -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 2 -- Makers of Waterscapes: Water Abundance, Discourses and the Market in the Ica and Pampas Basins, Peru -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Water Scarcity -- Water Scarcity, Development and Discourses -- Huancavelica and the Pampas Basin -- Water Conflict between Ica and Huancavelica and the State Intervention -- Making up Water Scarcity in Ica -- Ica's Discourse on Water Abundance in the Upper Basin -- Peasant Communities, Alpacas and the Market -- Ecosystem Management and Water Use in the Upstream Basin -- Discussion -- Annex N 1. -- References -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 3 -- The Environmental Aspects of Bioenergy Production in Peru -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. A Global Perspective -- 1.2. Bioenergy Context in Peru -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1. Raw Materials -- 2.2. Processes Description -- 2.2.1. Biodiesel Production -- 2.2.2. Bioethanol Production -- 2.3. Simulation Approach -- 2.4. Environmental Assessment -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. Biodiesel Production -- 3.2. Bioethanol Production -- 3.3. Environmental Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Paraguay's Dramatic Land-Use Change in the 20th Century: Concerning Massive Deforestation and Crawling Reforestation -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of Deforestation -- 2.1. Eastern Paraguay -- 2.2. Western Paraguay. , 3. National Reserves -- 4. Reasons for Tree Planting -- 5. Reforestation Activities in a Historical Overview -- 5.1. National Efforts (1950s/80s) -- 5.2. Social Plantations (1980-Present) -- 5.3. Corporate Efforts (After 1995) -- 5.4. Out-Grower Schemes (After 2000) -- 5.5. Carbon Forestry (After 2007) -- 6. Main Constraints for Forest Plantations -- 6.1. Legal Insecurity -- 6.2. Centralization -- 6.3. Corruption -- 6.4. Political Will -- 6.5. Problems with Long-Term Loans -- 6.6. Weakness of Institutions -- 6.7. Investigation and Information Deficit -- 6.8. Producers' Attitude -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 5 -- Citizen Participation in the Local Governments of Paraguay through Social Networking Sites -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Literature Review, Hypotheses and Research Questions -- Political Ideology -- Citizens' Access to Internet -- Economic Capacity of the Municipality -- Social Networking Activity and Interactivity -- Education Level -- Method -- Phase 1: Sample Selection and Data Collection -- Phase 2: Descriptive Analysis of Citizens' Engagement via Facebook -- Phase 3: Empirical Analysis of Engagement via Facebook -- Results -- Level of Citizens' Engagement Via Local Governments' Facebook Pages in Paraguay -- Factors Influencing Citizens' Engagement Via Local Governments' Facebook Pages -- Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- Biographical Sketches -- Chapter 6 -- Paraguay: Where Corruption and Poverty Hamper Development -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Poverty Permeates Through Paraguayan Families -- Caazapá Struggles with a Chronic Malnutrition Obstacle -- Empty Rhetoric on the War Against Poverty -- Tape Porã Concession: Example of a Broken System -- Grim Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 -- Assessing Paraguay's Possible Futures -- Abstract -- Introduction. , Is Something Different Now? -- Assessing Possible Futures from Today's Perspective -- What Could be the Next Chapter of Paraguay's History? -- Factors Shaping a New Historical Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Biographical Sketch -- Index -- Blank Page.

Note: The International Climate Regimeand its Driving-Forces: Obstacles and Chances on the Way to a Global Response to the Problem of Climate Change -- Table of content -- Table of figures -- Appendixes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scientific and economical consequences of anthropogenic climate change -- 2.1. The natural and anthropogenic greenhouse effect -- 2.1.1. The IPCC and its 4th Assessment Report -- 2.1.2. The Stern Review and the economics of climate change -- 3. The regime theory -- 3.1. Three schools of thought within the theory of international regime -- 3.1.1. The interest-based approach -- 3.1.1.1. Two-level games -- 3.1.2. The power-based approach -- 3.1.3. The knowledge-based approach -- 3.2. Application of the three approaches to the issue area of climate change -- 4. The issue area of climate change current climate regime -- 4.1. The current climate change regime -- 4.1.1. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- 4.1.2. The Kyoto-Protocol -- 4.1.2.1. The exit of the USA from the Kyoto Protocol -- 4.1.2.2. Basic weaknesses of the Kyoto Protocol -- 4.1.3. The Bali roadmap -- 4.2. Priorities of the main actors -- 4.2.1. The United States of America -- 4.2.1.1. Obama's New Climate Policy -- 4.2.2. China -- 4.2.2.1. China's plead for consumption-based inventories -- 4.3. International negotiations for a post-2012 agreement in Copenhagen and Cancún -- 5. Analysis of the driving-forces of the climate regime -- 5.1. The effectiveness and robustness of regimes -- 5.2. The driving-forces of the international climate regime and its consequences for the effectiveness of the regime -- 5.2.1. Analysis of the current climate regime -- 5.2.2. Analysis of the negotiations for a post-2012 agreement -- 5.2.3. Outlook regarding the regime's potential future driving-forces -- 5.2.3.1. A shift in Obama's political priority setting. , 5.2.3.2. Developments at the state level in the US -- 5.3. Conclusion -- References -- Monographs -- Scientific papers in omnibus volumes -- Articles in refereed journals -- Scientific publications -- Newspaper and magazine articles -- Internet sources (chronological after usage in the text) -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Appendix 6 -- Appendix 7 -- Appendix 8 -- Appendix 9 -- Appendix 10 -- Appendix 11 -- Appendix 12.