Governing Climate Change

World's foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students. This title is also available as Open Access.

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 Rüdiger 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 Jørgen 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 Bäckstrand, 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.