New book:
Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012: Architecture, Agency and Adaptation
Cambridge University Press, 2010
GLOBAL CLIMATE GOVERNANCE BEYOND 2012 provides a comprehensive assessment of
policy options for future global climate governance, written by a team of 30
leading experts from the European Union and developing countries.
The authors address three questions that will be central to any new climate
agreement:
1. Architecture -- What is the most effective overall legal and
institutional architecture for successful and equitable climate policies?
2. Agency -- What role should non-state actors play, including
multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, public-private
partnerships and market mechanisms?
3. Adaptation -- How can we deal with the growing challenge of adapting
our existing institutions to a substantially warmer world?
The book offers practitioners in-depth qualitative and quantitative assessments
of various policy options as well as scholars fresh insights into innovative
interdisciplinary approaches to global climate governance. The 19 chapters
integrate a variety of methods that range from quantitative research and formal
modelling to qualitative and legal analysis.
The book is one outcome of the research programme 'Adaptation and Mitigation
Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy' ('ADAM Project'), funded by a
major grant from the European Commission. The ADAM Project brought together
more than 100 experts from 27 institutions in disciplines as diverse as
economics, engineering, political science and climate modelling. The book is
also one of the first publications that respond to the science plan of the
Earth System Governance Project, a new long-term research effort under the
auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global
Environmental Change (www.earthsystemgovernance.org).
Editors:
Frank Biermann, Philipp Pattberg, and Fariborz Zelli
Contributors:
Mozaharul Alam, Knut H. Alfen, Harro van Asselt, Jessica Ayers, Lavinia
Baumstark, Frank Biermann, Ingrid Boas, Kelly de Bruin, Rob Dellink, Ottmar
Edenhofer, Michel den Elzen, Gunnar S. Eskeland, Christian Flachsland, Nitu
Goel, Andries Hof, Saleemul Huq, Anne Jerneck, Marian Leimbach, Kristin
Linnerud, Eva Lövbrand, Paul Lucas, Robert Marschinski, Philipp Pattberg,
Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Johannes Stripple, Lennart Olsen, Jasper van Vliet,
Detlef van Vuuren, Harald Winkler, and Fariborz Zelli
More information on the book is available at
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521190114
More information on the ADAM project is available at
http://www.adamproject.eu/
More information on the Earth System Governance Project is available
www.earthsystemgovernance.org<http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org>
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