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Strategic Facilitation of Complex Decision-Making

How Process and Context Matter in Global Climate Change Negotiations

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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Decision-Making, Global Negotiations and Climate Change: The Making of a Decision Framework
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 3-12

  3. The Climate Change Negotiations: The Value of Context and Modeled Experience

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. Contextualization of Multilateral Climate Change Negotiations: Understanding the Meaning of Path Dependency for Decision-Making
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 15-35
    3. Negotiation Re-visited: Understanding Decision-making
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 37-47
    4. Simulation as Method of Research: Learning from Experiences of the COP15 Games
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 49-79
    5. Complexities in Global Climate Talks: Stumbling Blocks to Decision Making
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 81-111

  4. Understanding the Conflictual Relations in the Global Climate Talks

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 113-113
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    2. The Entanglement of Global Climate Talks in North-South Relations: Identity Politics in the Trajectories of Relations
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 115-133
    3. Rethinking Paradigms in Global Climate Talks: Conceptualizing Equitable Access to Sustainable Development (EASD)
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 135-154

  5. Strategic Facilitation of Global Climate Negotiations: Opportunities and Intervention

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 155-155
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    2. Strategic Facilitation of the Climate Decision Making Process: Leadership and Coordination as Basis for Long-Term Cooperation
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 157-176
    3. Managing the Bargaining Table Through Flexibility Mechanisms: The Benefits of Coalitions and Sequencing
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 177-192

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 193-193
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    2. Conclusion: Decision-Making, Global Negotiations and Climate Change—Lessons for Theory and for Practice
      Ariel Macaspac Hernández
      Pages 195-205
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 207-266
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About this book

Introduction

This book provides theoretical and practical insights for effective decision making in situations that involve various types of conflict cleavages. Embedding historical analysis, negotiation analysis, political scientific analysis and game theoretical analysis in an integrated analytical framework allows a comprehensive perspective on various dilemmas and self-enforcing dynamics that inhibit decision making. The conceptualization of strategic facilitation highlights the value of leadership, chairmanship and the role of threshold states in facilitating decision making as the global climate change negotiations unfolds.

Keywords

Climate Change Conflict Management Decision-Making Negotiation Path Dependence Simulation Games

Authors and affiliations

  1. 1.University of LeipzigLeipzigGermany

About the authors

Dr. Ariel Macaspac Hernández, a political scientist, economist, sociologist and mediator is currently a research fellow at the Chair of Energy Management at the University of Leipzig.

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