Transformative Climate Governance

How to progress climate science to be policy-relevant and actionable? This book presents a novel framework to give a positive vision and structuring approach to guide research and practice on transformative climate governance, to shift the narrative from apathy and stalemate to action and transformation. Our vision contrasts existing climate governance and associated lock-ins that signify the institutional resistance to change. To effectively address climate change, climate governance itself needs to be transformed to foster sustainability transitions under climate change.The book brings together a collection of case studies to investigate how capacities for transformative climate governance are developing at multiple scales and how they can be strengthened vis-a-vis existing governance regimes. Specifically, it sheds light on the following questions: What are key overarching conditions, actors and activities that facilitate governance for transformation under climate change? Given persistent climate governance lock-ins, what needs to happen in research and policy to build-up the capacities that transform climate governance and ensure effective climate action?

Chapter 1 A transformative perspective on climate change and climate governance.- Chapter 2 Capacities for transformative climate governance: a conceptual framework.- Chapter 3 Transforming cities and science for climate change resilience in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 4 Navigating transformations under climate change in cities: features and lock-ins of urban climate governance.- Chapter 5 Transforming urban water governance in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.- Chapter 6 Capacities for transformative climate governance in New York City.- Chapter 7 Transforming urban (climate) governance: What do we learn from pro-actively experimenting cities?.- Chapter 8 Climate governance and high-end futures in Europe.- Chapter 9 Operationalising Transition Management for navigating high-end climate futures.- Chapter 10 Capacities in high-end scenarios in Europe: an agency perspective.- Chapter 11 Agency capacities to implement transition pathways under high-end scenarios.- Chapter 12 Sustainable ClimateDevelopment: transforming goals into means.- Chapter 13 Transforming climate governance? Why climate governance is failing and what to do about it.- Chapter 14 Conclusion: Bridging and weaving science and policy knowledges for a research agenda to transform climate governance.