Series Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Evaluating the Influence of Global Environmental Assessments -- 2 Science or Salience: Building an Agenda for Climate Change -- 3 Problem Framing in Assessment Processes: The Case of Biosafety -- 4 Whose Experts? The Role of Geographic Representation in Global Environmental Assessments -- 5 Assessment Information in European Politics: East and West -- 6 Structure and Influence of International Assessments: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe -- 7 From Regional to Global Information: Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants -- 8 Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise in Maine and Hawai'i: The Changing Tides of an Issue Domain -- 9 Trust, Respect, Patience, and Sea-Surface Temperatures: Useful Climate Forecasting in Zimbabwe -- 10 Mining Water, Drying Wells: Multilevel Assessment and Decision Making for Water Management -- 11 Information and Influence -- Index.