The evaluation of polycentric climate governance / Jonas J. Schoenefeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schoenefeld, Jonas J. (Jonas Julian), 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Evaluation.

Legal polycentricity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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° Celsius target in the Paris Agreement.

Contents:

Policy evaluation in polycentric governance systems

Climate policy evaluation : the EU level, Germany, and the UK

State-funded evaluation

Society-funded evaluation

Comparing state-funded and society-funded evaluation

Evaluation in polycentric governance : a theoretical analysis

Conclusions and new directions.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009049658 (ebook)