Bücher der Reihe Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability

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?

Its main focus is on why accountability matters - both for transformations and transitions in international climate change governance and how international support for environmentally responsible actions, and extending shared accountabilities, might strengthen climate governance globally.

Its main focus is on why accountability matters - both for transformations and transitions in international climate change governance and how international support for environmentally responsible actions, and extending shared accountabilities, might strengthen climate governance globally.

Part 1: Towards transformative climate governance: What governance capacities do we need?Authors: Katharina H├╢lscher Chapter 1Introduction: Understanding climate change as a transformation challenge and governance implicationsChapter 2Capacities for transformative climate governance - a conceptual frameworkPart 2: Understanding capacities for transformative climate governance in Rotterdam and New York CityAuthor: Katharina H├╢lscherChapter 3Methodology: assessing and comparing governance capacities in two frontrunner citiesChapter 4Understanding capacities for transformative climate governance in Rotterdam, the NetherlandsChapter 5Understanding capacities for transformative climate governance in New York City, USChapter 6What can we learn from frontrunner cities?  Chapter 7 What can we learn about the capacities required to experiment for climate governance?Part 3: Developing capacities for transformative climate governance under high-end scenarios in EuropeChapter 8 Climate governance and high-end futures in Europe Chapter 9A transition management approach to develop transition pathways under high-end scenariosChapter 10Capacities in high-end scenarios in Europe: a governance perspectiveChapter 11Developing capacities for sustainability and resilience transformations under high-end scenarios: identifying robust enabling conditionsPart 4: Towards supporting transformative climate governance capacities - lessons learned and ways forwardChapter 12Bridging and weaving science and policy knowledges: Lessons learned and recommendations for strengthening capacities for transformative climate governanceAppendix Appendix A: Step-by-step description of the IMPRESSIONS methodology to co-create pathways under high-end scenarios