Overview
- Presents a novel approach to understanding and supporting capacities for transformative climate governance in governance research and practice
- Includes two in-depth case studies on how these capacities can be developed in dynamic ways in empirical climate governance settings and processes
- Shows how the framework can be used to support the development of the capacities in transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research settings
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability (PSETTA)
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How to progress climate science to be policy-relevant and actionable? This book presents a novel framework to give a positive vision and structuring approach to guide research and practice on transformative climate governance, to shift the narrative from apathy and stalemate to action and transformation. Our vision contrasts existing climate governance and associated lock-ins that signify the institutional resistance to change. To effectively address climate change, climate governance itself needs to be transformed to foster sustainability transitions under climate change.
The book brings together a collection of case studies to investigate how capacities for transformative climate governance are developing at multiple scales and how they can be strengthened vis-à-vis existing governance regimes. Specifically, it sheds light on the following questions: What are key overarching conditions, actors and activities that facilitate governance fortransformation under climate change? Given persistent climate governance lock-ins, what needs to happen in research and policy to build-up the capacities that transform climate governance and ensure effective climate action?Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Towards Transformative Climate Governance: What Governance Capacities Do We Need?
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Capacities for Transformative Climate Governance in Cities
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Capacities for Transformative Climate Governance Under High-End Scenarios in Europe
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The Future of Transformative Climate Governance
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Katharina Hölscher is a senior researcher on climate governance and sustainability transitions at the Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT) with Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is involved in various research projects in Europe and worldwide focusing on climate governance and resilience in cities, transformation research and transition management. Katharina has published on climate governance and urban transitions and edited a book on transition management in cities.
Niki Frantzeskaki is Professor on Urban Sustainability Transitions and Director of the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Niki has published close to 100 peer reviewed articles, released three books on urban sustainability transitions and edited 15 special issues about sustainability and sustainability transitions. She coordinates research on environmental governance and urban transitions byleading and being involved in a portfolio of research projects with research institutes across Europe, Canada, Brazil and Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transformative Climate Governance
Book Subtitle: A Capacities Perspective to Systematise, Evaluate and Guide Climate Action
Editors: Katharina Hölscher, Niki Frantzeskaki
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49040-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49039-3Published: 27 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49042-3Published: 27 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49040-9Published: 26 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8183
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8191
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 698
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment Studies, Environmental Geography, Climate Change Management and Policy, Human Geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts