Contents -- Preface -- Summary for Policy Makers -- IDGEC Glossary -- I Introduction -- 1 Institutions and Environmental Change: The Scientific Legacy of a Decade of IDGEC Research -- II Research Foci -- 2 Determining the Causal Significance of Institutions: Accomplishments and Challenges -- 3 Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Institutions: What to Evaluate and How to Evaluate It? -- 4 Building Regimes for Socioecological Systems: Institutional Diagnostics -- III Analytic Themes -- 5 The Problem of Fit among Biophysical Systems, Environmental and Resource Regimes, and Broader Governance Systems: Insights and Emerging Challenges -- 6 Interplay: Exploring Institutional Interaction -- 7 Global Change: Analyzing Scale and Scaling in Environmental Governance -- IV Policy Relevance and Future Directions -- 8 Contributing to the Science-Policy Interface: Policy Relevance of Findings on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change -- 9 Earth System Governance: A Research Agenda -- References -- Contributors -- Index.