Scavenius / Rayner Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response

A New Approach to Climate Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-30979-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten

Reihe: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is quintessential to understand and address how effectively different political institutions can and should react to climate change.

The term "institutional response capacity" can be defined as a measurement for how effective political institutions may respond to threats and challenges such as climate change. This book sets out to provide a venue for the discussion of how to conduct climate politics by offering new perspectives on how social and political institutions are capable of responding to climate change. In doing so, the book explores how democracy, institutional design and polycentric governance influence social and political entities’ capacity to mitigate, adapt, address and transform climate change. The book offers building blocks for a new agenda of climate studies by focusing on institutional response capacity and by offering a new approach to climate governance at a time when many political initiatives have failed.

This interdisciplinary volume is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the areas of anthropology, political science, geography and environmental studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scavenius, Theresa Birgitta Brønnum

Scavenius, Theresa

Rayner, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Theresa Scavenius and Steve Rayner

Part 1: Institutional Capacities and Democracy

1. Climate Change, Governance and Knowledge Nico Stehr and Alexander Ruser

2. The Institutional Capacity of Democracy Theresa Scavenius

3. Institutional Responsibility Jessica Nihlen Fahlquist

Part 2: Response Capacity and Behavioural Change

4. The Double Gap Between Climate Values and Action Theresa Scavenius and Malene Rudolf Lindberg

5. The Social Contract for Climate Risks: Private and Public Responses W. Neil Adger, Tara Quinn, Irene Lorenzoni, and Conor Murphy

6. The Role of Civil Society in Adaptation Strategies Jens Hoff

Part 3: Institutional Capacity in Society

7. Institutional Challenges of Climate Geoengineering Steve Rayner and Peter Healey

8. Post-Paris Long-term Climate Capacity: The Role of Universities Saleemul Huq and Naznin Nasir

Über Autor(innen)

Theresa Scavenius is an associate professor at the Department of Planning, University of Aalborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Steve Rayner is James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society, University of Oxford, UK