Research handbook on climate governance / edited by Karin Bäckstrand, Professor, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden, Eva Lövbrand, Associate Professor, Department of Thematic Studies: Environmental Change, Linköping University, Sweden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Backstrand, Karin, editor.

Lövbrand, Eva, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (632 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, United Kingdom : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]

Summary:

The 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen is often represented as a watershed in global climate politics, when the diplomatic efforts to negotiate a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol failed and was replaced by a fragmented and decentralized climate governance order. In the post-Copenhagen landscape the top-down universal approach to climate governance has gradually given way to a more complex, hybrid and dispersed political landscape involving multiple actors, arenas and sites. The Handbook contains contributions from more than 50 internationally leading scholars and exp

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Climate governance after Copenhagen: research trends and policy practice; PART I THEORIZING CLIMATE GOVERNANCE; 1. Global governance; 2. Realism; 3. Political economy; 4. Science and technology studies; 5. Governmentality; 6. Deliberative democracy; 7. Feminism; 8. Normative theory; PART II PROCESSES AND SITES OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE; 9. Climate diplomacy; 10. Geopolitics; 11. Fragmentation; 12. Minilateralism; 13. The North-South divide; 14. Transnationalism; 15. Vulnerability; 16. Climate skepticism

PART III THE STATE AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE17. Climate leadership; 18. China; 19. The United States; 20. The European Union; 21. Brazil; PART IV NON-STATE AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE; 22. NGOs; 23. Business; 24. International bureaucracies; 25. Science; 26. Civil society; 27. Citizen-consumers; 28. News media; 29. The city; PART V MODES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE; 30. EU emissions trading; 31. Low-carbon economies; 32. Carbon accounting; 33. Multi-stakeholder governance; 34. Climate policy integration; 35. Climate policy instruments; 36. Climate engineering

PART VI NORMATIVE IDEALS OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE37. Regime effectiveness; 38. Environmental democracy; 39. Transparency; 40. Security; 41. Adaptation; 42. Post-humanist imaginaries; 43. Resilience; PART VII THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE; 44. Multilateralism in crisis?; 45. Reform options; 46. Re-politicizing climate governance research; 47. Property and privatization; 48. Innovation investments; 49. Knowledge pluralism; 50. The future; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 12, 2016).

ISBN:

1-78347-060-7