Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Transboundary Air Pollution Policy in Transition -- Transboundary Pollution and Spatial Effects -- Science, Policy, and Citizens -- This Book: Science, Policy, and Citizens -- References -- Part I: Policy and Institutions -- Chapter 2. The Improving Effectiveness of CLRTAP:Due to a Clever Design? -- The Concept of Effectiveness: "Distance to Optimum" versus " Relative Improvement" -- Explaining Effectiveness and the Focused Issue of Institutional Design: Five Key Features -- CLRTAP: Steadily Improving Effectiveness Due to a Clever Design? -- Concluding Comments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. Institutional Linkages and European Air Pollution Politics -- Analyzing Institutional Linkages -- CLRTAP and EU Air Politics: The Shift toward Brussels -- Institutional Linkages in European Air Pollution Abatement -- Institutional Linkages and the Future of European Air Pollution Politics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Transboundary Science for Transnational Air Pollution Policies in Europe -- Designing Transnational Science-Policy Interfaces -- The CLRTAP -- The EU' s Air Pollution Policies -- Comparison and Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Expertise and Learning -- Chapter 5. Organized Science, Usable Knowledge, and Multilateral Environmental Governance -- Knowledge, Sustainability Science, and the Social Construction of Consensus -- Usable Knowledge: When Knowledge Speaks to Power -- Empirical Record of Usable Knowledge in Multilateral Environmental Governance -- Lessons for Generating and Mobilizing Usable Knowledge -- Climate Change, Usable Knowledge, and the Limits to Social Learning -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Chapter 6. Scientists Learn Not Only Science but Also Diplomacy: Learning Processes in the European Transboundary Air Pollution Regime -- Developing an Alternative Conceptual Framework -- The Case Study: Learning Assessments for the Second Sulfur Protocol -- Examining the Learning Process -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. Fewer Boundaries and Less Certainty:The Role of Experts in European Air Policy -- Successful Interplay between Science and Policy in Transboundary Air Pollution -- Crisis in the Relationship between Science, Policy, and the Public: The STS Diagnosis -- Analyzing Air Policy Experts from the STS Perspective -- Conclusions: Configuring the Science-Policy-Public Interplay -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8. Co-producing Policy-Relevant Science and Science-Based Policy: The Case of Regulating Ground-Level Ozone -- Science-Based Policy and Policy-Relevant Science -- Representing Ground-Level Ozone -- Scientific Developments and Political Considerations -- Conclusion: Making Ground-Level Ozone Governable -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Citizens and Involvement -- Chapter 9. Citizen Engagement with the Politics of Air Quality: Lessons for Social Theory, Science Studies, and Environmental Sociology -- Transboundary Air Quality and the Politics of Public Engagement -- The Ecological Modernization of Air Quality -- Air Quality Problems and the Conceptualization of Environmental Issues as Risks -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10. Framing Air Pollution and Health Problems:How to Include Stakeholder Perspectives? -- Two Tools to Deal with the Science-Policy-Society Interface -- Case Study: The European AIRNET Thematic Network Project -- Evaluation of Stakeholder Involvement in the AIRNET Project -- Conclusions -- Note -- References.

Chapter 11. Governance of Air Quality and Stakeholder Engagement: Lessons and Experience from International Cases -- From Science to Policy: The Role of Evidence and the Role of the Citizen -- Science to Policy: The Role of Democracy and the Role of Reliable Evidence -- The Four Case Studies -- Regional and International Dimensions of Air Quality Governance -- Local Dimensions of Air Quality Governance: AQMA -- Discussion: Lessons and Concepts for Stakeholder Engagement -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV: Environmental Governance and Research -- Chapter 12. Science-Policy-Citizen Dynamics in International Environmental Governance -- Air Pollution Policy: Experiences and Prospects -- A Changed Context for Transboundary Regulation -- Assessing International Relations Theory -- International Governance: Science, Policy, and Citizens -- The Science-Policy-Citizen Dynamic -- From Instrumental Relevance to Shaping Visions -- References -- Index.