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A Transformative Perspective on Climate Change and Climate Governance

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Transformative Climate Governance

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Significant changes of climate governance have to accompany, or, even precede effective climate action. We introduce our transformative perspective on climate change as a new entry point to understand and formulate implications for climate governance, to underscore the transformative role and transformative impact of governance in dealing with drivers and impacts of climate change while contributing to transformations towards sustainability and resilience. We then trace and describe the emergent features of climate governance at the global scale including related challenges and research questions for transforming climate governance. After outlining the key theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to climate governance research provided by our book, we give an outlook on the chapters enclosed in this book. Our main objective with this book is to contribute to an understanding about what the type of climate governance that addresses the need for sustainability and resilience transformations under climate change could look like‚ and how existing climate governance institutions‚ mechanisms and practices can be strengthened along these lines.

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