Wednesday 12th of April 13.15 - 15.00 in Room 325: Conceptualizing and Theorizing Climate Governance

This first of two lectures on the governance of climate change adaptation offers an introduction to how climate change adaptation is governed at various levels and between networks and actors. It does so by presenting and discussing key perspectives and approaches to environmental governance in general, and climate adaptation governance in particular. What are some of the important capacities and strategies for governing adaptation and where does responsibility to do so lie?

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Prepare by reading the following texts:

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.

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). Theorizing global environmental governance: Key findings and future questions. Millennium, 43(2), 684-705.

Eriksen, S., Nightingale A. & Eakin, H. (2015). Reframing Adaptation: The Political Nature of Climate Change Adaptation, 35: 523-533.

Extra reading:

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