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Institutional capacity for climate change response : a new approach to climate politics / edited by Theresa Scavenius and Steve Rayner.

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 ef...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Scavenius, Theresa (Editor), Rayner, Steve, 1953- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Science in society series.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Political aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Part, I Institutional capacity and democracy
  • chapter Introduction / Theresa Scavenius Steve Rayner
  • chapter 1 Climate change, governance and knowledge / Nico Stehr Alexander Ruser
  • chapter 2 The institutional capacity of democracy / Theresa Scavenius
  • chapter 3 Institutional responsibility / Jessica NihlĂ©n Fahlquist
  • part, II Response capacity and behavioural change
  • chapter 4 The double gap between climate values and action / Theresa Scavenius Malene Rudolf Lindberg
  • chapter 5 The social contract for climate risks
  • Private and public responses / W. Neil Adger Tara Quinn Irene Lorenzoni Conor Murphy
  • chapter 6 The role of civil society actors in climate change adaptation / Jens Hoff
  • part, III Institutional capacity in society
  • chapter 7 Institutional challenges of climate geoengineering 1 / Steve Rayner Peter Healey
  • chapter 8 Post-Paris long-term climate capacity
  • The role of universities / Naznin Nasir Riadadh Hossain Saleemul Huq.

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