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Based on Young's recent article in PNAS (request publication) on evaluating the current state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of international environmental regimes, this presentation explores opportunities for enhancing our understanding of the effectiveness of international regimes more generally.

Young will direct attention to a series of questions about causal mechanisms associated with effectiveness proposed by those concerned with the roles of power, interests, and ideas. He will then widen the scope to examine a series of broader questions relating to institutional  interplay, shifts in the socioecological and socioeconomic settings in which regimes operate,  and matters of scale.

About Dr. Young
Oran Young is a research professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Specialising in the analysis of environmental institutions with particular reference to international regimes, Dr. Young also serves as Co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School.

Dr. Young served for six years as Founding Chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academy of Sciences and chaired the Scientific  Steering Committee of the international project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global  Environmental Change (IDGEC). From 2005 to 2010, he chaired the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.

He is the author of more than 20 books. His most recent book is Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (2010). He is also a co-author of Science Diplomacy (2011).