Contents -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Foundations of Institutional Interaction -- 3 The Climate Change Regime: Interactions with ICAO, IMO, and the EU Burden-Sharing Agreement -- 4 The Convention on Biological Diversity: Tensions with the WTO TRIPS Agreement over Access to Genetic Resources and the Sharing of Benefits -- 5 Protecting the Northeast Atlantic: One Problem, Three Institutions -- 6 Institutional Interplay and Responsible Fisheries: Combating Subsidies, Developing Precaution -- 7 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): Responding to Calls for Action from Other Nature Conservation Regimes -- 8 Interactions between the World Trade Organization and International Environmental Regimes -- 9 Interactions of EU Legal Instruments Establishing Broad Principles of Environmental Management: The Water Framework Directive and the IPPC Directive -- 10 The EU Habitats Directive: Enhancing Synergy with Pan-European Nature Conservation and with the EU Structural Funds -- 11 The EU Deliberate Release Directive: Environmental Precaution versus Trade and Product Regulation -- 12 The EU Air Quality Framework Directive: Shaped and Saved by Interaction? -- 13 Comparative Empirical Analysis and Ideal Types of Institutional Interaction -- Appendix: Overview of Identified Cases of Institutional Interaction -- Index -- Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation.