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This book engages with a pressing question: How does global climate change increase the need for accountable governance? It examines interdisciplinary approaches to consider how accountable climate governance mechanisms can meet the complex challenges of environmental changes impacting natural systems and the global distributions of species, water, arable and habitable land. Integrated approaches that take heed of ecological and biological systems are identified as enabling better understandings of accountable climate governance systems, human and environmental interfaces, political and economic sectoral interplay and scalable solutions. It argues that achieving accountable climate governance mechanisms will enable states to meet the expectations of informed citizens and provide better environmental outcomes.
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Edmondson, B., Levy, S. (2019). Introduction to Transformative Climates and Accountable Governance. In: Edmondson, B., Levy, S. (eds) Transformative Climates and Accountable Governance. Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97400-2_1
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