Wednesday 13/4, 10 – 12 in 403 Climate Change Governance (Matteo de Donà)

This lecture with deal with governance issues, exploring how climate change adaptation is governed at various levels and between networks and actors. This first part of the lecture will focus on the international and transnational levels, providing some theoretical tools to understand global environmental governance and zooming into relevant organizations such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The second part of the lecture will focus on adaptation governance mainly at the local level. We concentrate on the challenges and possibilities for actors in the governance of adaptation at the subnational level. What are some of the important capacities and strategies for governing adaptation and where does responsibility to do so lie?

Please note that at the end of the module on governance you will be asked to complete a written assignment ('PM') which involves reflecting on your individual project in relation to what is brought up in lectures, discussions and texts.

Prepare by reading the following texts:

Seo, S. Niggol (2017). Beyond the Paris Agreement: Climate Change Policy Negotiations and Future Directions. Regional Science Policy & Practice 9(2), 121–140.

Pattberg, P., & Widerberg, O. (2015). Theorising global environmental governance: Key findings and future questions. Millennium, 43(2), 684-705.

Gillard, R., Gouldson, A., Paavola, J., & Van Alstine, J. (2016). Transformational responses to climate change: beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 7(2), 251-265.

Aylett, A. (2015). Institutionalizing the urban governance of climate change adaptation: Results of an international survey. Urban Climate, 14, 4–16.

Further readings (not compulsory):

Challies, E., Newig, J., Kochskämper, E., & Jager, N. W. (2017). Governance change and governance learning in Europe: Stakeholder participation in environmental policy implementation. Policy and Society, 36(2), 288-303.

Patterson, J. J., & Huitema, D. (2019). Institutional innovation in urban governance: The case of climate change adaptation. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 62(3), 374–398.

Boyd, Emily, and Sirkku Juhola (2015). "Adaptive climate change governance for urban resilience." Urban studies 52.7: 1234-1264.

To find out more about international climate negotiations and on adaptation, you are also encouraged to visit the UNFCCC website http://unfccc.int/adaptation/items/4159.php (Links to an external site.)