Linking Regime Complexity to Policy Coherency: The Case of Genetic Resources

Volume: 
15
Pages: 
29
Publication Date: 
2011
Publication Language: 
EN
Series Title: 
GR:EEN Working Paper Series
Working Paper Type: 
Abstract: 

This paper argues that States are playing a central role in regime complexes’ evolution. It underscores that regime complexes and governmental decision-making co-evolve as structures and agents on a morphogenetic basis. Like other structures, regime complexes are both shaped by and constraining on agents, especially States.