Tackling climate change requires long-term commitment to action, yet an array of influential parties with vested interests stand opposed to this. How best to engage and balance these positions for positive change is of increasing concern for advocates and policy makers. Exploring a discord within climate change policy and politics, this insightful volume critically examines the competing assumptions and arguments underpinning political 'stability' versus 're/politicization' as a means of securing effective, long-term climate action. A range of cases exemplify the different political systems and power structures that underpin this antagonism, spanning geographical approaches, examples of non-governmental action, and key industries in the global economy. Authored by an international team of scholars, this book will be of interest to researchers of local, national, and international legislation, specialists on climate governance policy, and other scholars involved in climate action. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Examines a discord within climate change policy and politics, providing insights via influential cases and examples of best practice.
Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors;
1. Introduction:
stability and politicization in climate governance Matthew Paterson, Paul
Tobin and Stacy D. VanDeveer; Part I. Movement Politics:
2. The Fridays for
future movement and the repoliticization of climate change policy in Germany
Jale Tosun and Marc Debus;
3. Climate change worldviews and the scale of
environmental justice Michael Méndez;
4. 'When you think about climate
change, it is a social justice issue': between the rock of stability and the
hard place of politicization for muslim climate actors Paul Tobin, Nafhesa
Ali, Sherilyn MacGregor and Zarina Ahmad; Part II. Political Economy:
5.
Politicizing coal burning: phase-Out policies from cheap signals to emergent
norms and North-South contention Stacy D. VanDeveer;
6. Peaty politics
Matthew Paterson;
7. Politicizing financial innovations for transformative
climate justice Jennie C. Stephens and Martin Sokol;
8. Private climate
governance and policy stability in the financial sector Virginia Haufler;
Part III. Comparative Politics:
9. Energy transition in Brazil and South
Africa: policy stability vs. politicization Kathryn Hochstetler;
10. Steering
political conflicts for climate stability: the case of China Yixian Sun, Wei
Shen and Joanna I. Lewis;
11. For better or for worse a Break with Norway's
consensual climate tradition? Fay M. Farstad, Erlend A. T. Hermansen and Bård
Lahn;
12. Stability and politicization in framework climate laws Diarmuid
Torney;
13. The illusion of 'Apolitical' climate policy Matto Mildenberger
and Matthew Lockwood; Part IV. Global Politics:
14. Politicization conflicts
in global climate governance Jen Iris Allan;
15. US-China relations and the
competitive turn of green industrial policymaking Jonas Nahm;
16. The
politics of stability and politicization of change: the carbon trap and just
transition Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann;
17. Conclusions for
stability and Re/politicization in climate governance Stacy D. VanDeveer,
Paul Tobin and Matthew Paterson; Bibliography.
Paul Tobin is an Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Manchester. He specialises in the politics and public policy of climate change, often within Europe. Paul has co-edited two previous edited volumes, and two Special Issues, on environmental politics. Matthew Paterson is a Professor of International Politics and Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the political economy, global governance, and cultural politics of climate change. His latest book is In Search of Climate Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Stacy D. VanDeveer is a Professor of Global Governance and Human Security in the John C. McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was 202324 Zennström Visiting Professor of Climate Leadership at Uppsala University and is co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics (Oxford University Press, 2023).
