Stability and politicization in climate governance / edited by Paul Tobin, Matthew Paterson, Stacy D. VanDeveer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tobin, Paul (Lecturer in politics), editor.

Paterson, Matthew, 1967- editor.

VanDeveer, Stacy D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Tackling climate change requires long-term commitment to action, yet an array of influential parties with vested interests stand opposed to this. How best to engage and balance these positions for positive change is of increasing concern for advocates and policy makers. Exploring a discord within climate change policy and politics, this insightful volume critically examines the competing assumptions and arguments underpinning political 'stability' versus 're/politicization' as a means of securing effective, long-term climate action. A range of cases exemplify the different political systems and power structures that underpin this antagonism, spanning geographical approaches, examples of non-governmental action, and key industries in the global economy. Authored by an international team of scholars, this book will be of interest to researchers of local, national, and international legislation, specialists on climate governance policy, and other scholars involved in climate action. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Introduction : stability and politicization in climate governance / Matthew Paterson, Paul Tobin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer

The Fridays for future movement and the repoliticization of climate change policy in Germany / Jale Tosun and Marc Debus

Climate change worldviews and the scale of environmental justice / Michael Méndez

"When you think about climate change, it is a social justice issue" : between the rock of stability and the hard place of politicization for muslim climate actors / Paul Tobin, Nafhesa Ali, Sherilyn MacGregor and Zarina Ahmad

Politicizing coal burning : phase-out policies from cheap signals to emergent norms and North-South contention / Stacy D. VanDeveer

Peaty politics / Matthew Paterson

Politicizing financial innovations for transformative climate justice / Jennie C. Stephens and Martin Sokol

Private climate governance and policy stability in the financial sector / Virginia Haufler

Energy transition in Brazil and South Africa : policy stability vs. Politicization / Kathryn Hochstetler

Steering political conflicts for climate stability : the case of China / Yixian Sun, Wei Shen, and Joanna I. Lewis

For better or for worse - a break with Norway's consensual climate tradition? / Fay M. Farstad, Erlend A.T. Hermansen, and Bård Lahn

Stability and politicization in framework climate laws / Diarmuid Torney

The illusion of "apolitical" climate policy / Matto Mildenberger and Matthew Lockwood

Politicization conflicts in global climate governance / Jen Iris Allan

US-China relations and the competitive turn of green industrial policymaking / Jonas Nahm

The politics of stability and politicization of change : the carbon trap and just transition / Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann

Conclusions for stability and re/politicization in climate governance / Stacy D. VanDeveer, Paul Tobin and Matthew Paterson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-35248-2

1-009-35244-X

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access