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Regional climate governance is the purposeful steering of human activity by states and non-state actors within a geographically delimited area to reduce carbon emissions (mitigation) and to manage the impacts of climate change (adaptation).
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Environmental governance is the purposeful steering of human activity by states and/or non-state actors in ways that positively or negatively, immediately or progressively, impact upon the natural and built environments at global, regional, or local scales. Regional environmental governance regimes are formal or unstructured governance arrangements that emerge when adjoining or neighboring states and/or non-state actors within these states coordinate political action and policy making on environmental targets and outcomes over shared or contiguous geographic spaces. In terms of providence, most arise from a concern for natural resources or the environment:...
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Scobie, M. (2016). Regional Climate Governance. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2845-1
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