Innovating Climate Governance
Moving Beyond Experiments

Critically examines whether and how local and experimental action can deliver significant and transformative ways of tackling climate change.

Bruno Turnheim (Edited by), Paula Kivimaa (Edited by), Frans Berkhout (Edited by)

9781108417457, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 March 2018

262 pages, 6 b/w illus. 2 maps
25.4 x 18 x 1.6 cm, 0.67 kg

After the perceived failure of global approaches to tackling climate change, enthusiasm for local climate initiatives has blossomed world-wide, suggesting a more experimental approach to climate governance. Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments looks critically at climate governance experimentation, focusing on how experimental outcomes become embedded in practices, rules and norms. Policy which encourages local action on climate change, rather than global burden-sharing, suggests a radically different approach to tackling climate issues. This book reflects on what climate governance experiments achieve, as well as what happens after and beyond these experiments. A bottom-up, polycentric approach is analyzed, exploring the outcomes of climate experiments and how they can have broader, transformative effects in society. Contributions offer a wide range of approaches and cover more than fifty empirical cases internationally, making this an ideal resource for academics and practitioners involved in studying, developing and evaluating climate governance.

Preface
1. Beyond experiments: innovation in climate governance Bruno Turnheim, Paula Kivimaa and Frans Berkhout
2. Global climate governance after Paris: setting the stage for experimentation? Harro van Asselt, Dave Huitema and Andrew Jordan
Part I. Experiments: Exploring Innovations in Climate Governance: 3. Anchoring and mobility of local energy concepts: the case of Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Luís Carvalho and Irina Lazzerini
4. Realigning circulations: how urban climate change experiments gain traction Vanesa Castán Broto and Harriet Bulkeley
5. Understanding public dialogue as an embedded democratic innovation in UK climate governance Helen Pallett
6. Broadening experimentation through research-industry collaboratives in the Australian water sector Megan A. Farrelly and J. J. Bos
Part II. Beyond Experiments: Transforming Climate Governance: 7. Developing transformative and orchestrating capacities for climate governance experimentation in Rotterdam Katharina Hölscher, Niki Frantzeskaki and Derk Loorbach
8. The pilot paradox: exploring tensions between internal and external success factors in Dutch climate adaptation projects Arwin van Buuren, Heleen Vreugdenhil, Jitske van Popering Verkerk, Gerald Jan Ellen, Corniel van Leeuwen and Bas Breman
9. Policy pilots for climate adaptation in Indian agriculture: a qualitative comparative analysis Sreeja Nair and Michael Howlett
10. Evaluating climate governance experiments: participants' perspectives on low carbon experiments in Finland Eva Heiskanen and Kaisa Matschoss
11. The city of permanent experiments? Andrew Karvonen
12. Experiments and beyond: an emerging agenda for climate governance innovation Bruno Turnheim, Paula Kivimaa and Frans Berkhout
Index.

Subject Areas: Environmental monitoring [TQD], Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], The environment [RN], Environment law [LNKJ], International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International environmental law [LBBP], Environmental economics [KCN], International relations [JPS]