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  title info:
    title: Global institutions and social knowledge
    sub title: generating research at the Scripps Institution and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, 1900s-1990s
  name:
    name part: Walsh, Virginia M.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  name:
    name part: Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    place:
      place term: London
    publisher: MIT
    date issued: ©2004
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages).
  abstract: This theoretical and empirical study examines the influence of global institutions on the generation of scientific knowledge. Virginia Walsh's approach reverses the traditional focus of international relations literature--which most often deals with how scientific knowledge influences institutions--and offers an original way to look at international environmental governance. After proposing a theory of institutional mechanisms by which global institutions shape the generation of knowledge, the book turns to detailed case studies of two institutions in the under- studied but vital area of marine science, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, to illustrate these mechanisms.In part 1, "Theory," the book identifies three specific mechanisms or "fixes" that provide the means by which institutions shape the generation and use of knowledge. With the positional fix, key individuals use their social roles or positions in an institution to influence the beliefs of members or fix the direction of research. The statutory fix occurs when beliefs gain acceptance as a consequence of being embedded in rules or treaties. The committee fix is illustrated in the regularized practices through which social groups accept statements as group beliefs. Part 2, "Evidence," shows these mechanisms at work in the two case studies. The Scripps Institution, for example, illustrates the positional fix, as successive directors used their position to frame research. The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, on the other hand, exemplifies both the statutory fix and the committee fix in its regulatory actions.
  note: Virginia M. Walsh ; [foreword by Oran R. Young].
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.
  subject:
    topic: Marine sciences
    topic: Research
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Research institutes
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
  classification: GC57 .W25 2004eb
  classification: 306.42
  identifier: 9780262285704
  identifier: 0262285703
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 041208
    record change date: 20221121162444.0
    record identifier: in00004601309
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng