Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response: A New Approach to Climate Politics (The Earthscan Science in Society Series)

Synopsis

In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial 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.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

164 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317309789

Related ISBNs:

9781315651354, 9781138120983

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/22/20

Copyrighted By:

Theresa Scavenius and Steve Rayner

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Steve Rayner

Edited by:

Theresa Birgitta Scavenius