Research Handbook on Climate Governance

Edited by Karin Bäckstrand, Professor, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University and Eva Lövbrand, Associate Professor, Department of Thematic Studies: Environmental Change, Linköping University, Sweden

‘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.’

• Contents:PART I THEORIZING CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 1. Global GovernanceMarkus Lederer2. RealismJohn Vogler3. Political EconomyPeter Newell4. Science and Technology StudiesSheila Jasanoff 5. GovernmentalityJohannes Stripple and Harriet Bulkeley6. Deliberative DemocracyHayley Stevenson 7. FeminismAnnica Kronsell8. Normative TheoryEdward A. PagePART II PROCESSES AND SITES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE9. Climate DiplomacyRadoslav S. Dimitrov10. GeopoliticsDavid Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan11. FragmentationFariborz Zelli and Harro van Asselt12. MinilateralismJeffrey McGee13. The North-South DivideJoyeeta Gupta 14. TransnationalismKlaus Dingwerth and Jessica F. Green 15. VulnerabilityTim Forsyth16. Climate SkepticismReiner GrundmannSECTION III THE STATE AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE17. Climate LeadershipCharles F. Parker and Christer Karlsson18. ChinaPhillip Stalley 19. The United StatesGuri Bang20. The European UnionClaire Dupont and Sebastian Oberthür21. BrazilEduardo Viola and Kathryn Hochstetler SECTION IV: NON-STATE AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE22. NGOsMichele Betsill 23. BusinessChukwumerije Okereke24. International BureaucraciesBernd Siebenhüner25. Science Silke Beck 26. Civil SocietyDana R. Fisher and Anya M. Galli27. Citizen-ConsumersMikael Klintman and Magnus Boström28. News MediaAlison Anderson29. The CityVladimir JankovićSECTION V: MODES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 30. EU Emissions TradingJørgen Wettestad31. Low Carbon EconomiesHeather Lovell 32. Carbon AaccountingEsther Turnhout, Margaret M. Skutsch and Jessica de Koning 33. Multi-stakeholder GovernanceHannah Betts and Heike Schroeder 34. Climate Policy IntegrationHarro van Asselt, Tim Rayner and Åsa Persson35. Climate Policy InstrumentsSimon Matti36. Climate EngineeringAnders Hansson, Steve Rayner and Victoria WibeckSECTION VI: NORMATIVE IDEALS OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE37. Regime EffectivenessSteinar Andresen38. Ecological DemocracyFrank Fischer 39. TransparencyAarti Gupta and Michael Mason 40. SecurityAngela Oels 41. AdaptationLisa Dilling 42. Posthumanist ImaginariesAstrida Neimanis, Cecilia Åsberg and Suzi Hayes 43. ResilienceCarolina E. Adler, Paulina Aldunce, Katherine Indvik, Denís Alegría, Roxana Bórquez and Victor Galaz SECTION VII: THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE44. Multilateralism in Crisis?Robyn Eckersley45. Reform OptionsFrank Biermann 46. Re-politicizing Climate GovernanceIan Bailey and Piers Revell47. Property and PrivatizationRonnie D. Lipschutz 48. Innovation InvestmentsBjörn-Ola Linnér and Steve Rayner 49. Knowledge PluralismMike Hulme 50. The FuturePaul G. HarrisIndex