Institutions for scientic advice: Global environmental assessments and their influence in developing countries

  • 04/04/2008

  • Global Governance

Environmental policymaking has been equated with the art of making the right decisions based on an insufficient understanding of the underlying problems. Given the tremendous complexities of the earth system, effective global environmental governance must rely on scientific information on both the kind of problem at stake and the options for decisionmakers to cope with it. 2002