Global public goods (GPGs)--the economic term for a broad range of goods and services that benefit everyone, including stable climate, public health, and economic security--pose notable governance challenges. At the national level, public goods are often provided by government, but at the global level there is no established state-like entity to take charge of their provision. The complex nature of many GPGs poses additional problems of coordination, knowledge generation and the formation of citizen preferences. This book considers traditional public economy theory of public goods provision as oversimplified, because it is state centered and fiscally focused. It develops a multidisciplinary look at the challenges of understanding and designing appropriate governance regimes for different types of goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development assistance. The chapter authors, all leading scholars in the field, explore the misalignment between existing GPG policies and actors' incentives and understandings. They analyze the complex impact of incentives, the involvement of stakeholders in collective decision making, and the specific coordination needed for the generation of knowledge. The book shows that governance of GPGs must be democratic, reflexive--emphasizing collective learning processes--and knowledge based in order to be effective.

• Series Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• The Challenge in Governing Global Public Goods
  • Global Public Goods: The Participatory Governance Challenges
  • Rethinking Public Goods and Global Public Goods
  • New Face of Development Assistance: Public Goods and Changing Ethics
• Designing Complex Incentive Schemes
  • Crowding Out and Crowding In of Intristic Preferences
  • Regularoty Reform and Reflexive Regulation: Beyond Command and Control
  • Governance of the Research and Development Sector for Biotechnology: Intellectual Property Rights and Bioprospecting
• Compliance: From Legal Tools to Moral Norms
  • Managing Global Risks through "Proportionate" Precaution: The Interplay between States, Civil Society, and International Regulation
  • Subnational Climate-Friendly Governance Initiatives in the Developing World: A Case Study of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Reflexive Governance and Multilevel Decision Making in Agricultural Policy: Conceptual Reflections and Empirical Evidence
• Multi-Stakeholder Coordination: How to Manage Heterogeneity
  M
  • Participatory Governance and Sustainability: Findings of a Meta-Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Environmental Decision Making
  • Social Learning in the Governance of Forest Ecosystem Services
  • Value Articulating Institutions and Changing Social Preferences
• Knowledge Generation on Global Issues
  • Knowledge Matters: Institutional Frameworks to Govern the Provision of Global Public Goods
  • From Rationalism to Reflexivity? Reflections on Change in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan
  • Relexsive Governance and the Importance of Individual Competencies: The Case of Adaption to Climate Change in Germany
• Conclusion
• References
• Index
• Series List