Now available as paperback: 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<http://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/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5759589/?site_locale=en_GB 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> Apologies for Cross-posting
