… social institutions are most crucial in terms of relationships to biophysical environments and
environmental changes. … on the relations of three master institutions – economic, political and …

… changes in institutions only occur when this underlying belief system also changes … As we
have seen, the NIE suggests that institutions usually change as the result of a long and often …

… changed with changing economic and political circumstances, but the general principle—that
access depended on social … of influence within existing social institutions as they gained …

… This is the essence of social institutions, and this forms the basis of the analysis provided by
… institutions change, but with special reference to climate change issues. In every sense, all …

… at deeper levels of the social structure. However, just as … institutions can meet with resistance
from power holders in the social structure, power plays that impose institutional change can …

… Before we get very far in developing a theory of change, it is necessary to know what it is that
changes - … It does not constitute a theory of social institutions - rather some of the necessary …

… change social institutions and restrict individual choice. Yet individuals, and indeed societies,
may reject these objectives—for example, some societies appear to reject the objective of …

… The fourth section of this article reviews some of the major social and ecological costs that
… by supporting viable social institutions and increas± ing the security of social contracts, play …

… discriminatory social institutions. There is compelling evidence that progressive social change
… Because of the context specificity of social institutions, different models of change will be …

… develop an alternative theory of institutional emergence and change that captures important
features of social … of institutional change for our understanding of existing social institutions …