Governing Climate Change
Polycentricity in Action?
Published on 11. April 2018
978-1-108-30774-1 (ISBN)
Description
Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom famously described as 'polycentric'. This book brings together contributions from some of the world's foremost experts to provide the first systematic test of the ability of polycentric thinking to explain and enhance societal attempts to govern climate change. It is ideal for researchers in public policy, international relations, environmental science, environmental management, politics, law and public administration. It will also be useful on advanced courses in climate policy and governance, and for practitioners seeking incisive summaries of developments in particular sub-areas and sectors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Reviews / Votes
'Is polycentric governance an overrated hype or a promising new paradigm in our understanding of climate policy and law? The world-class scholarship in this book delivers an excellent critical assessment, markedly advances the state-of-the-art, and provides a systematic and inspiring basis for future research on multi-level climate governance and how to enhance efforts to combat climate change.' Sebastian Oberthuer, The Institute for European Studies, Brussels 'As we lose sight of alternatives, Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? is a major contribution to the critical debate in the social and environmental sciences on polycentric governance of climate change. How we govern climate change, and with what effect on the environment and its peoples, depends largely on how polycentric governance plays out. Jordan, Huitema, van Asselt and Forster have assembled an impressive and illuminating collection of essays systematically testing the ideas and theoretical claims spearheaded by Nobel Prize laureate Elinor Ostrom and since promulgated widely by social scientists and environmentalists. With a rich combination of disciplinary and methodological approaches and powerful synthesis, Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? breaks inspiring new ground in the vitally important project of governing climate change.' Tiffany H. Morrison, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies 'Polycentricity has become one of the most influential concepts in current academic debates on global climate governance. And yet, this concept's descriptive, explanatory and prescriptive value has remained unclear, underspecified, and contested for so long. Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? now brings this important conceptual debate to a higher level. It offers twenty insightful contributions on polycentric climate governance by some of the most authoritative scholars in this field, all organized around a carefully crafted analytical framework. This superbly edited volume is an essential collection for both theorists and practitioners of modern global climate governance.' Frank Biermann, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands 'An excellent contribution in many respects - as synopsis and reference point, as conceptual advancement and critical appreciation, as inspiration for further research, for teaching and individual reading. For didactical benefits, it must also be highlighted, that the authors developed a publicly accessible MOOC (massive open online course) - creating another valuable knowledge commons next to the open access book itself. This lays valuable foundations for the rich content to spread into practice and to enhance collective action with a polycentric approach to global climate governance.' Marcel J. Dorsch, translated from Politische Vierteljahresschrift 'This readable approach is appropriate considering that the book is the core text around which a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has been designed, accompanied by a package of teaching resources ... This comprehensive open access volume is highly recommended reading for any scholar or student researching local governance or public policy. With time running low for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, it is imperative that the most effective climate policy approaches are selected urgently.' Paul Tobin, Local Government Studies '... is a must-read for anyone interested in either the field of governance or climate change ... it provides a helpful way of system-thinking in a world with increasing uncertainty and complexity.' Por Fronika de Wit, Portuguese Journal of Political Science 'The volume has established an excellent foundation on which future studies of polycentric governance can build, and the cracks and gaps that appear should prove to be useful harvesting ground for authors ...' Fee Stehle, Global Environmental PoliticsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 9 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white
File size
5,13 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-30774-1 (9781108307741)
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05/2018
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Andrew Jordan is Professor of Environmental Policy at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia. He has published extensively on European Union (EU) and United Kingdom environmental policy and politics, and advised a number of international, EU and UK institutions. He is a co-chair of the Brexit & Environment network, funded by the ESRC's UK in a Changing Europe initiative. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Dave Huitema is Professor of Environmental Policy at The Open University of the Netherlands, and at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He specialises in public policy and environmental governance, focusing on water and climate change specifically. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Global Environmental Change and Ecology and Society and has authored several books on environmental governance, including Climate Change Policy in the European Union (Cambridge, 2011). Harro van Asselt is Professor of Climate Law and Policy at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). He is an Editor of Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. He has published widely in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Global Policy, Global Governance, Law & Policy, Regulation & Governance, Climatic Change and Climate Policy. He is the author of The Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance (2014). Johanna Forster is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia and the Manager of the INOGOV network. She has published on a wide range of topics including climate change impacts and adaptation, environmental economics, and marine management and governance. Her publications include articles in Nature Climate Change, Climatic Change, Global Environmental Change, and Marine Policy.
Content
Part I. Context: 1. Governing climate change polycentrically: setting the scene Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Jonas Schoenefeld, Harro van Asselt and Johanna Forster; Part II. Actors and Domains of Governance: 2. International governance: polycentric governing by and beyond the UNFCCC Harro van Asselt and Fariborz Zelli; 3. National governance: the state's role in steering polycentric action Joana Setzer and Michal Nachmany; 4. Transnational governance: charting new directions post-Paris Harriet Bulkeley, Michele Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew Hoffmann, Peter Newell and Matthew Paterson; 5. City and subnational governance: high ambitions, innovative instruments and polycentric collaborations? Jeroen van der Heijden; Part III. Polycentric Governance Processes: 6. Experimentation: the politics of innovation and learning in polycentric governance Jan-Peter Voss and Fabian Schroth; 7. Entrepreneurship: a key driver of polycentric governance? Elin Lerum Boasson; 8. Leadership and pioneership: exploring their role in polycentric governance Duncan Liefferink and Ruediger K. W. Wurzel; 9. Diffusion: an outcome of and an opportunity for polycentric activity? Jale Tosun; 10. Linkages: understanding their role in polycentric governance Philipp Pattberg, Sander Chan, Lisa Sanderink and Oscar Widerberg; 11. Orchestration: strategic ordering in polycentric governance Kenneth W. Abbott; 12. Policy surveillance: its role in monitoring, reporting, evaluating and learning Joseph E. Aldy; Part IV. Substantive Governance Challenges: 13. Harnessing the market: trading in carbon allowances Katja Biedenkopf and Jorgen Wettestad; 14. Decarbonisation: the politics of transformation Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann; 15. Transferring technologies: the polycentric governance of clean energy technology Liliana B. Andonova, Paula Castro and Kathryn Chelminski; 16. Governing experimental responses: negative emissions technologies and solar climate engineering Jesse Reynolds; 17. Adaptation: the neglected dimension of polycentric climate governance? Robbert Biesbroek and Alexandra Lesnikowski; 18. Equity and justice in polycentric climate governance Chukwumerije Okereke; 19. Legitimacy and accountability in polycentric climate governance Karin Baeckstrand, Fariborz Zelli and Philip Schleifer; Part V. Synthesis and Conclusions: 20. Governing climate change: the promise and limits of polycentric governance Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt and Johanna Forster; Index.
