Innovating climate governance: moving beyond experiments

After the perceived failure of global approaches to tackling climate change, enthusiasm for local climate initiatives has blossomed world-wide, suggesting a more experimental approach to climate governance. Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments looks critically at climate governance experimentation, focusing on how experimental outcomes become embedded in practices, rules and norms. Policy which encourages local action on climate change, rather than global burden-sharing, suggests a radically different approach to tackling climate issues. This book reflects on what climate governance experiments achieve, as well as what happens after and beyond these experiments. A bottom-up, polycentric approach is analyzed, exploring the outcomes of climate experiments and how they can have broader, transformative effects in society. Contributions offer a wide range of approaches and cover more than fifty empirical cases internationally, making this an ideal resource for academics and practitioners involved in studying, developing and evaluating climate governance.--

Beyond experiments: innovation in climate governance / Bruno Turnheim, Paula Kivimaa, and Frans Berkhout -- Global climate governance after Paris: setting the stage for experimentation / Harro van Asselt, Dave Huitema, and Andrew Jordan -- Anchoring and mobility of local energy concepts: the case of community choice aggregation (CCA) / Luís Carvalho and Irina Lazzerini -- Realigning circulations: how urban climate change experiments gain traction / Vanesa Castán Broto and Harriet Bulkeley -- Understanding public dialogue as an embedded democratic innovation in UK climate governance / Helen Pallett -- Broadening experimentation through research-industry collaboratives in the Australian water sector / Megan A. Farrelly and Joannette J. Bos -- Developing transformative and orchestrating capacities for climate governance experimentation in Rotterdam / Katharina Hölscher, Niki Frantzeskaki, and Derk Loorbach -- The pilot paradox: exploring tensions between internal and external success factors in Dutch climate adaptation projects / Arwin van Buuren, [and five others] -- Policy pilots for climate adaptation in Indian agriculture: a qualitative comparative analysis / Sreeja Nair and Mich…