Polycentric climate governance holds enormous promise, but to unleash its full force, policy evaluation needs a stronger role in it. This book develops Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom's important work by offering fresh perspectives from cutting-edge thinking on climate governance and policy evaluation. Driven by theoretical innovation and empirical exploration, this book not only argues for a stronger connection between polycentric climate governance and practices of evaluation, but also demonstrates the key value of doing so with a real-world, empirical test in the polycentric setting of the European Union. This book offers a crucial step to take climate governance to the next level. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in climate governance, as well as practitioners who seek to enhance climate action, which is needed to avoid a climate catastrophe and to identify a pathway towards the 1.5 degrees Celsius target in the Paris Agreement.
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'This important book brings together solid empirical material and novel theoretical insight into the role of evaluation in climate governance. I find it of great interest for evaluation research and practice, and for analyses of the emerging polycentric patterns of climate governance.' Mikael Hilden, Finnish Environment Institute 'Evaluating public policies is analytically demanding, which is the reason why the most compelling studies concentrate on one or a few cases. Jonas Schoenefeld demonstrates with this well designed and executed study that rigorous and yet comprehensive evaluation is possible. He also contributes to the growing body of research on polycentric climate governance by making the case that it is necessary to identify its concrete empirical implications and to subject them to an analysis of how they deliver on their theoretically derived promise in the real world.' Jale Tosun, University of Heidelberg
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Höhe: 248 mm
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Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-316-51124-4 (9781316511244)
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Dr Jonas J. Schoenefeld is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Housing and Environment (IWU), Germany, and a Visiting Researcher at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK. He earned his doctorate from the University of East Anglia and an MPhil from the University of Oxford. He co-edited a special issue on the politics of policy evaluation in the European Union for the German Political Science Quarterly and has published several peer-reviewed articles in the areas of climate change policy, policy evaluation and the European Union.
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Institute for Housing and Environment, Darmstadt, Germany
1. Introduction; 2. Policy Evaluation in Polycentric Governance Systems; 3. Climate Policy Evaluation: The EU Level, Germany, and the UK; 4. State-Funded Evaluation; 5. Society-Funded Evaluation; 6. Comparing State-Funded and Society-Funded Evaluation; 7. Evaluation in Polycentric Governance: A Theoretical Analysis; 8. Conclusions and New Directions; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; References; Index.
