Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action?

doi:10.1017/9781108284646

Governing Climate Change

Polycentricity in Action?

- You have access
- Open access
Cited by 175
Cited by
- 175
Crossref Citations

This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref.

Peters, B. Guy Jordan, Andrew and Tosun, Jale 2017. Over-reaction and under-reaction in climate policy: an institutional analysis. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Vol. 19, Issue. 6, p. 612.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Tosun, Jale Jordan, Andrew and Maor, Moshe 2017. Governing climate change: the (dis)proportionality of policy responses. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Vol. 19, Issue. 6, p. 596.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

González Piñeros, Nidia Catherine 2018. Explorando la innovación local como proceso clave en la transformación de las instituciones del nuevo milenio. Cuadernos de Gobierno y Administración Pública, Vol. 5, Issue. 1, p. 49.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Jinnah, Sikina 2018. Why Govern Climate Engineering? A Preliminary Framework for Demand-Based Governance. International Studies Review, Vol. 20, Issue. 2, p. 272.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Huitema, Dave Boasson, Elin Lerum and Beunen, Raoul 2018. Entrepreneurship in climate governance at the local and regional levels: concepts, methods, patterns, and effects. Regional Environmental Change, Vol. 18, Issue. 5, p. 1247.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Warbroek, Beau Hoppe, Thomas Coenen, Frans and Bressers, Hans 2018. The Role of Intermediaries in Supporting Local Low-Carbon Energy Initiatives. Sustainability, Vol. 10, Issue. 7, p. 2450.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Hickmann, Thomas and Stehle, Fee 2019. The Embeddedness of Urban Climate Politics in Multilevel Governance: A Case Study of South Africa’s Major Cities. The Journal of Environment & Development, Vol. 28, Issue. 1, p. 54.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Carter, Neil Little, Conor and Torney, Diarmuid 2019. Climate politics in small European states. Environmental Politics, Vol. 28, Issue. 6, p. 981.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Novak, Mikayla 2019. Climate Change: What Should Liberals Do?. SSRN Electronic Journal ,

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Papin, Marielle 2019. Transnational municipal networks: Harbingers of innovation for global adaptation governance?. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol. 19, Issue. 4-5, p. 467.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Wurzel, Rüdiger K.W. Moulton, Jeremy F.G. Osthorst, Winfried Mederake, Linda Deutz, Pauline and Jonas, Andrew E.G. 2019. Climate pioneership and leadership in structurally disadvantaged maritime port cities. Environmental Politics, Vol. 28, Issue. 1, p. 146.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Tosun, Jale and Leopold, Lucas 2019. Aligning Climate Governance with Urban Water Management: Insights from Transnational City Networks. Water, Vol. 11, Issue. 4, p. 701.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Patterson, James J. and Huitema, Dave 2019. Institutional innovation in urban governance: The case of climate change adaptation. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 62, Issue. 3, p. 374.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Simpson, Nicholas Philip Simpson, Kayleen Jeanne Shearing, Clifford D. and Cirolia, Liza Rose 2019. Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, Vol. 11, Issue. 3, p. 257.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Thiel, Andreas Blomquist, William A. and Garrick, Dustin E. 2019. Governing Complexity.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Dyrhauge, Helene 2019. EU and European environmental policies from national to the global level and in time of crisis. Journal of European Integration, Vol. 41, Issue. 8, p. 1089.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Patterson, James de Voogt, Douwe L. and Sapiains, Rodolfo 2019. Beyond inputs and outputs: Process‐oriented explanation of institutional change in climate adaptation governance. Environmental Policy and Governance, Vol. 29, Issue. 5, p. 360.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Schoenefeld, Jonas J. and Jordan, Andrew J. 2019. Environmental policy evaluation in the EU: between learning, accountability, and political opportunities?. Environmental Politics, Vol. 28, Issue. 2, p. 365.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Setzer, Joana and Vanhala, Lisa C. 2019. Climate change litigation: A review of research on courts and litigants in climate governance. WIREs Climate Change, Vol. 10, Issue. 3,

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Andonova, Liliana B. and Sun, Yixian 2019. Private Governance in Developing Countries: Drivers of Voluntary Carbon Offset Programs. Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 19, Issue. 1, p. 99.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Download full list

Edited by Andrew Jordan, University of East Anglia, Dave Huitema, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Harro van Asselt, University of Eastern Finland and Stockholm Environment Institute, Johanna Forster, University of East Anglia

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2018
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781108284646
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108284646
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Policy, Economics and Law, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations

Information

Contents

Metrics

Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom famously described as 'polycentric'. This book brings together contributions from some of the world's foremost experts to provide the first systematic test of the ability of polycentric thinking to explain and enhance societal attempts to govern climate change. It is ideal for researchers in public policy, international relations, environmental science, environmental management, politics, law and public administration. It will also be useful on advanced courses in climate policy and governance, and for practitioners seeking incisive summaries of developments in particular sub-areas and sectors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

'Is polycentric governance an overrated hype or a promising new paradigm in our understanding of climate policy and law? The world-class scholarship in this book delivers an excellent critical assessment, markedly advances the state-of-the-art, and provides a systematic and inspiring basis for future research on multi-level climate governance and how to enhance efforts to combat climate change.'

Sebastian Oberthür - The Institute for European Studies, Brussels

'As we lose sight of alternatives, Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? is a major contribution to the critical debate in the social and environmental sciences on polycentric governance of climate change. How we govern climate change, and with what effect on the environment and its peoples, depends largely on how polycentric governance plays out. Jordan, Huitema, van Asselt and Forster have assembled an impressive and illuminating collection of essays systematically testing the ideas and theoretical claims spearheaded by Nobel Prize laureate Elinor Ostrom and since promulgated widely by social scientists and environmentalists. With a rich combination of disciplinary and methodological approaches and powerful synthesis, Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? breaks inspiring new ground in the vitally important project of governing climate change.'

Tiffany H. Morrison - Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

'Polycentricity has become one of the most influential concepts in current academic debates on global climate governance. And yet, this concept’s descriptive, explanatory and prescriptive value has remained unclear, underspecified, and contested for so long. Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? now brings this important conceptual debate to a higher level. It offers twenty insightful contributions on polycentric climate governance by some of the most authoritative scholars in this field, all organized around a carefully crafted analytical framework. This superbly edited volume is an essential collection for both theorists and practitioners of modern global climate governance.'

Frank Biermann - Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

'An excellent contribution in many respects - as synopsis and reference point, as conceptual advancement and critical appreciation, as inspiration for further research, for teaching and individual reading. For didactical benefits, it must also be highlighted, that the authors developed a publicly accessible MOOC (massive open online course) - creating another valuable knowledge commons next to the open access book itself. This lays valuable foundations for the rich content to spread into practice and to enhance collective action with a polycentric approach to global climate governance.'

Marcel J. Dorsch Source: translated from Politische Vierteljahresschrift

'This readable approach is appropriate considering that the book is the core text around which a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has been designed, accompanied by a package of teaching resources … This comprehensive open access volume is highly recommended reading for any scholar or student researching local governance or public policy. With time running low for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, it is imperative that the most effective climate policy approaches are selected urgently.'

Paul Tobin Source: Local Government Studies

'… is a must-read for anyone interested in either the field of governance or climate change … it provides a helpful way of system-thinking in a world with increasing uncertainty and complexity.'

Por Fronika de Wit Source: Portuguese Journal of Political Science

‘The volume has established an excellent foundation on which future studies of polycentric governance can build, and the cracks and gaps that appear should prove to be useful harvesting ground for authors …’

Fee Stehle Source: Global Environmental Politics

- Aa Reduce text
- Aa Enlarge text

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Total number of HTML views: 0

Total number of PDF views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

Total views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

Governing Climate Change

Polycentricity in Action?

Book description

Reviews

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Book summary page views