Climate governance across the globe : pioneers, leaders and followers / edited by Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen and Paul Tobin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wurzel, Rüdiger, editor.

Andersen, Mikael Skou, editor.

Tobin, Paul (Lecturer in politics), editor.

Series:

Routledge research in comparative politics.

Routledge research in comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Case studies.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance, by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe. The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders, pioneers and followers, across multilevel and/or polycentric climate governance contexts. Examining the state and sub-state levels in both the Global South and Global North, as well as regional, supranational EU, and international climate governance levels, the authors explore sixteen countries across Asia, Australasia, Europe, and Central and North America, plus the European Union. Each chapter employs a comprehensive and consistent framework for analysing leadership and pioneership, as well as followership. The findings provide new insights into the strategies and actions of sub-state, state-level, and supranational leaders and pioneers. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in environmental politics and climate change governance, as well as those interested in political elites, EU studies and, more broadly, comparative politics and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Climate governance across the globe : pioneers, leaders and followers / Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen and Paul Tobin

China : emerging low-carbon pioneers at city level / Xinlei Li

India : from climate laggard to global solar energy leader / Kirsten Jörgensen

Costa Rica and Vietnam : pioneers in green transformations / Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Alonso Villalobos, Dang Nguyen Anh and Markus Lederer

Rhetoric and reality in New Zealand's climate leadership : 'My generation's nuclear-free moment' / David Hall

Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia : domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South / Markus Lederer, Chris Höhne, Fee Stehle, Thomas Hickmann and Harald Fuhr

Climate change politics and policy in the United States : forward, reverse and through the looking glass / Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

European Union leadership before, during and after the Paris Climate Conference / Paul Tobin and Nicole Schmidt

Climate policy in Germany : pioneering a complex transformation process / Sibyl Steuwer and Julia Hertin

Lessons from climate action in the UK : the limitations of state leadership / Jeremy Moulton

Governance, green finance and global climate advocacy of the Nordic countries : small state syndrome or novel middle power? / Mikael Skou Andersen

Ireland's Citizens' Assembly on climate change : institutional pioneership by a climate laggard? / Diarmuid Torney, Pat Brereton, and Laura Devaney

Switzerland : international commitments and domestic drawbacks / Marlene Kammerer, Karin Ingold, Johann Dupuis

Conclusion : pioneers, leaders, and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance re-assessed / Paul Tobin, Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003014249

1003014240

9781000320305

1000320308