Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage
Climate-related loss and damage has been dominating international climate change negotiations in recent years. Until now we have had little understanding of how individual states are grappling with climate change destruction. Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage is one of the first book-length explorations of how loss and damage policy works at a national level. It focuses specifically on countries in the Global South on the frontline of climate change to identify new mechanisms through which key factors – climate risks and impacts, international developments, national institutions, and the ideational landscape – shape policy engagement, development, and adoption. Guided by an original theoretical framework and seven original empirical case studies, this book shows the way to more effective governance of loss and damage now and in the future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Lisa Vanhala is Professor of Political Science at University College London. Her work on loss and damage governance, climate change litigation, and environmental legal mobilization has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Global Environmental Politics, and Global Environmental Change. She is also the author of Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage focused on the United Nations.
Elisa Calliari is a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change in Venice. She studies how policymakers at different governance scales understand and address climate change impacts beyond adaptation. She is involved in loss and damage negotiations as a member of the Italian and EU delegation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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