Governing Climate Change

By Peter Newell, Harriet A. Bulkeley

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About the Book

The issue of global climate change has risen to the top of the international political agenda. Despite ongoing contestation about the science informing policy, the economic costs of action and the allocation of responsibility for addressing the issue within and between nations, it is clear that climate change will continue to be one of the most pressing and challenging issues facing humanity for many years to come.

Peter Newell and Harriet A. Bulkeley provide a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Governing Climate Change: A Brief History 3. Governance for Whom? Equity, Justice and the Politics of Sustainable Development 4. Between Global and Local: Governing Climate Change Transnationally 5. Communities and the Governing of Climate Change 6. The Private Governance of Climate Change 7. Conclusion

About the Author(s)

Peter Newell is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia UK and James Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for the Environment. He is author of Climate for Change: Non-State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse (CUP, 2000), co-author of The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (MacMillan, 2000) and co-editor of Development and the Challenge of Globalisation (ITDG, 20002), The Business of Global Environmental Governance (MIT press, 2005) and Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability (Zed books, 2006). He has worked on climate change since 1993 including spells at Friends of the Earth (UK), Climate Network Europe, research and advisory work for UNDP, GEF, the Earth Council and the governments of Sweden and UK, as well as work with the private sector.


Harriet A. Bulkeley is Lecturer in Geography at Durham University. She is co-author of Cities and Climate Change (Routledge, 2003), and co-editor of Responding to climate change: governance and social action beyond Kyoto, a recent special issue of Global Environmental Politics. She has worked on climate change since 1995 and has published widely in geography, international relations and urban studies journals.