A breathtaking review which covers the major approaches and actors
in the governance of climate change this carefully edited book
includes essays from dozens of scholars who are shaping our
understanding of responses to the real and existential risks of a
warming world. The book is especially strong in its discussion of
how critical social theory can help us understand the politics of
climate change, in its histories of climate policy, and in the
multiple perspectives it provides on the international climate
regime across sectors, institutions, countries and scales. I was
impressed by the diversity of authors, including the number of
women contributors, and by the efforts to connect research to
political action.' - Diana Liverman, University of Arizona,
US'Backstrand and Loevbrand have crafted a remarkable volume,
gathering over fifty cutting-edge scholars engaging every aspect of
climate governance-what it has been, what it is, and what it could
and should be. This is truly a one-stop shop for grasping the
diversity of research on climate governance. It will engage
students exploring the field, scholars seeking to understand the
state of the art, and practitioners looking to make sense of the
challenges of responding to this most crucial of global issues.' -
Matthew Hoffman, University of Toronto, Canada 'As the ambit of
climate governance has expanded out from the UN to encompass myriad
actors at multiple levels, so too has the challenge of
understanding the whole. This comprehensive and expertly edited
Handbook provides the alpha and omega of climate governance
scholarship. I confidently predict that it will become the standard
reference for years to come.' - Andy Jordan, University of East
Anglia, UK The 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen
is often represented as a turning point 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.
Drawing upon contributions from more than 50 internationally
renowned scholars, the Handbook assesses the state and direction of
climate governance at multilateral, EU, national and local levels.
The volume mobilizes multiple scholarly traditions ranging from
grand theorizing to close empirical studies of micro-political
practices, and spans the ideational and the material, the
historical and the contemporary, the normative and the critical.
The resulting collection of chapters represents the state of the
art and most recent thinking in the rich and expanding scholarship
on climate politics and governance. Contributors: C.E. Adler, P.
Aldunce, D. Alegria, A. Anderson, S. Andresen, C. Asberg, K.
Backstrand, I. Bailey, G. Bang, S. Beck, M. Betsill, H. Betts, F.
Biermann, R. Borquez, M. Bostroem, H. Bulkeley, D. Ciplet, J. de
Koning, L. Dilling, R.S. Dimitrov, K. Dingwerth, C. Dupont, R.
Eckersley, F. Fischer, D.R. Fisher, T. Forsyth, V. Galaz, A.M.
Galli, J.F. Green, R. Grundmann, A. Gupta, J. Gupta, A. Hansson,
P.G. Harris, S. Hayes, K. Hochstetler, M. Hulme, K. Indvik, V.
Jankovic, S. Jasanoff, C. Karlsson, M. Khan, M. Klintman, A.
Kronsell, M. Lederer, B.-O. Linner, R.D. Lipschutz, E. Loevbrand,
H. Lovell, M. Mason, S. Matti, J. McGee, A. Neimanis, P. Newell, S.
Oberthur, A. Oels, C. Okereke, E.A. Page, C.F. Parker, A. Persson,
S. Rayner, T. Rayner, P. Revell, J.T. Roberts, H. Schroeder, B.
Siebenhuner, M.M. Skutsch, P. Stalley, H. Stevenson, J. Stripple,
E. Turnhout, H. van Asselt, E. Viola, J. Vogler, J. Wettestad, V.
Wibeck, F. Zelli
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