scholarly journals Climate policy, regulation and governance: introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s10 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Simon Goldhill ◽  
Georgie Fitzgibbon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Food System ◽  
Agroforestry Systems ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Climate Change Governance ◽  
Policy Solutions

Regulatory systems and innovative policy solutions are addressing the current and future effects of climate change. The articles presented here range from broad views on climate change governance in agroforestry systems and insights from climate-funded food system projects, to the nationally specific, exploring regulatory contexts in the UK, China, and Mexico. They consider state, private, and civil society actors. Together, they demonstrate the importance of innovative policy solutions to climate regulatory and governance problems.

scholarly journals Are citizen juries and assemblies on climate change driving democratic climate policymaking? An exploration of two case studies in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Wells ◽  
Candice Howarth ◽  
Lina I. Brand-Correa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Elected Representatives ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In light of increasing pressure to deliver climate action targets, and the growing role of citizens in raising the importance of the issue, deliberative democratic processes (e.g. Citizen Juries and Citizen Assemblies) on climate change are increasingly being used to provide a voice to citizens in climate change decision-making. Through a comparative case study of two processes that ran in the UK in 2019 (the Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury and the Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change), this paper investigates how far Citizen Assemblies and Juries on climate change are increasing citizen engagement on climate change and creating more citizen-centred climate policy-making. Interviews were conducted with policy-makers, councillors, professional facilitators and others involved in running these processes to assess motivations for conducting these, their structure and the impact and influence they had. The findings suggest the impact of these processes is not uniform: they have an indirect impact on policymaking by creating momentum around climate action and supporting the introduction of pre-planned or pre-existing policies rather than a direct impact by being truly being citizen-centred policymaking processes or conducive to new climate policy. We conclude with reflections on how these processes give elected representatives a public mandate on climate change, that they help to identify more nuanced and in-depth public opinions in a fair and informed way, yet it can be challenging to embed citizen juries and assemblies in wider democratic processes.

The effect of climate policy on the impacts of climate change on river flows in the UK

2014 ◽  
Vol 510 ◽  
pp. 424-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel W. Arnell ◽  
Matthew B. Charlton ◽  
Jason A. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
River Flows ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

scholarly journals Improving the Efficacy of Climate Policy in the Indonesian Rice Sector: The Potential Use of Perceived-Impact Measures in Targeting Policy Beneficiaries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rokhani ◽  
Mohammad Rondhi ◽  
Anik Suwandari ◽  
Ahmad Asrofi ◽  
Ahmad Fatikhul Khasan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Food System ◽  
National Development ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
Rice Farmers

Climate change (CC) increases the frequency of flood and drought and is a significant threat to smallholder rice farming in Indonesia. Adapting to these changes is crucial to minimize the damages to the Indonesian food system. Accordingly, the Indonesian government has formulated National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) to mitigate the effect of climate change on priority sectors, including rice farming. To this end, the Indonesian government included climate change adaptation into the National Development Plan (2019–2024). Selecting the appropriate beneficiaries of this program is crucial to improve the efficacy of Indonesian climate policy. In the case of rice farming, farmers with a high probability to adapt are the appropriate beneficiaries of this program. Thus, this chapter aimed to identify the characteristics of Indonesian smallholder rice farmers with a high probability to adapt to climate change. To this end, this chapter used the findings of the study on 87,330 rice farmers in Indonesia. Education, gender, land tenure security, presence of irrigation infrastructure, application of chemical fertilizer, cropping system, access to extension services, and participation in farmer group are significant determinants of adaptation practices. The finding suggests that prioritizing farmers based on these characteristics are crucial to improve the efficacy of climate policy.

scholarly journals Climate change governance in agroforestry systems: a systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s10 ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Pamela Katic
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Agroforestry Systems ◽  
Current State ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Climate Change Governance

Agroforestry has the potential to fundamentally transform socio-ecological systems to address the root causes of climate vulnerability. Although there is increasing interest in agroforestry as a transformative adaptation strategy, its implementation is often discouraged by the need to involve multiple stakeholders, sectors, and governance levels with potentially different interests. We draw on a systematic review of sixty-four peer-reviewed papers on climate change governance in agroforestry systems to (1) outline the current state of the literature, (2) characterise how governance is conceptualised, (3) investigate governance challenges, and (4) provide insights into effective governance. The review finds that most relevant papers have been published in the past three years, and most of these papers are found in interdisciplinary journals. The main governance challenges include coordinating polycentricity, overcoming power imbalances, and sharing, translating, and integrating different types of knowledge. However, few empirical studies of agroforestry governance have been completed. A richer conceptual framework of governance is required to improve our ability to navigate the role of sustainable land management practices such as agroforestry in successful climate change adaptation and mitigation.

scholarly journals Evaluating Climate Change Governance Using the “Polity–Policy–Politics” Framework: A Comparative Study of China and the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6403
Author(s):  
Xiaochen Gong ◽  
Yunxia Liu ◽  
Tao Sun
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Governance Arrangement ◽  
Dynamic Complexity ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Climate Change Governance

Climate change governance has attracted increasing academic interest. However, holistic reviews on the dynamic complexity and stability of climate change governance have received little attention. This study addresses this research gap by conducting a structurally comparative analysis between China and the United States based on the “polity–policy–politics” framework. Three analytical facets are identified for each dimension of the framework, including institutional settings, the nature of policy mechanisms used in climate change practices, and the degree of multi-actors’ involvement under two governance scenarios. Results show that climate change governance in the two countries differs substantially. The process of climate governance in China is driven by strong leadership at the national level alongside policy continuity, whereas well-functioning market mechanisms and robust regulatory systems are still lacking. A more meaningful involvement of social forces is also critically needed when addressing increasingly complex and uncertain climate change. By contrast, the US federal climate policies are considered inadequate compared with sub-national actions and persistent efforts of non-state actors, to which the success of climate practices is largely attributed. This study systematically uncovers the divergence of climate mitigation under different political–institutional contexts, and evaluates the effectiveness of governance arrangement in the two countries, which helps policymakers to understand the potential of improving the performance of climate change governance.

scholarly journals Disaster Displacement and Its Linkage to Climate Change Litigation in Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Klaaren
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
National Development ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Climate Change Governance

It has been observed that the scholarship on African responses to climate change law lags behind the reality. This are however some recent efforts to address this gap in the literature. Some recent work has carefully sketched the national development of framework laws in Kenya and Uganda and, taking a pan-African albeit Anglophone perspective, has also addressed the ways in which such national laws might work with and influence each other. This gap is replicated in another corner of climate change scholarship, the literature on climate change litigation. This is unfortunate since action by civil society through national judiciaries often has real impact. For instance, the impact of the provisions in Kenya’s climate change legislation were significantly strengthened by the purposive interpretation given those provisions in Kenya’s most celebrated instance of climate change litigation, the Save Lamu matter. And courts are recognized to play a role in multi-level climate change governance, in part by providing a platform for transnational climate change litigation. Concerned to address these gaps, this article explores the material and conceptual linkages between disaster displacement and climate change with particular attention to litigation and to legal support structures. This article assumes a certain degree of familiarity with climate change litigation and its literature. It proceeds to explore and present a specific cross-cutting perspective, for which there is only modest treatment in the existing literature. This is the linkage of disaster displacement litigation (and legal responses) to climate change litigation. The article outlines and briefly examines a short but intense period of litigation regarding a disaster-induced displacement in South Africa which has not been widely discussed or attended to anywhere in the scholarly literature. Beyond demonstrating the gap between local institutional preparedness and the evident level of risk from disasters at all scales including those associated with climate change, the case study investigated here shows the importance of thinking about the local with the global, particularly with respect to the linkage between displacement and climate change.

scholarly journals Climate Change Governance in Forestry and Nature Conservation in Selected Forest Regions in Serbia: Stakeholders Classification and Collaboration

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 709
Author(s):  
Mirjana Stanišić ◽  
Marko Lovrić ◽  
Jelena Nedeljković ◽  
Dragan Nonić ◽  
Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Stakeholder Analysis ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Climate Change Governance

Climate change, with various economic, environmental and social consequences, is one of the greatest challenges faced by society. Climate change governance in forestry and nature conservation includes developing joint activities and collaboration among stakeholders that combine different interests, influences and competences at national, regional and local levels. This research aims to classify climate change stakeholders within the forestry and nature conservation sectors in Serbia. They are classified according to their interests and perceived influences. We analyze factors impacting the development of different areas for the collaboration by combining stakeholder analysis and social network analysis. A total of 103 representatives of civil society and public sector organizations in forestry and nature conservation at different governance levels with expertise in climate change participated in the survey. The results show that most civil sector organizations are distributed in the ‘subject’ quadrant with lower perceived influence and are not well interconnected. Seven different areas for the collaboration were identified, with disconnected stakeholders and limited representation and mostly peripheral position of civil society organizations (except in the case of the area for the collaboration through workshop and seminars knowledge exchange). The analyzed factors have different positive and negative effects on the development of the different areas for the collaboration, with the frequency of contacts standing out as a significant factor of collaboration at the level of the whole collaboration network. There is a strong indication of a centralized, top-down approach to climate change governance in forestry and nature conservation in Serbia. Multilevel and horizontal stakeholder governance is needed to achieve effective implementation of strategic climate-change policy commitments. The most important step to achieve such a structure is the empowerment of local-level organizations in climate change collaboration.

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