Multilevel Governance and Climate Change: Insights From Transport Policy - Hardcover

This pioneering book promotes climate change as a life problem that cuts across all aspects of everyday life, and nowhere is this more apparent than in decisions relating to transport. The authors combine wide ranging theoretical thinking with informative case study material. They convincingly demonstrate that progress can only be made through a multi level governance `plus' approach that explicitly addresses accountability and the gaps that exist across various institutional, social, economic and political dimensions. -- David Banister, Professor of Transport Studies and Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford University The authors provide a richly detailed account of the political pressures and divides that have impeded implementation of the UK's Climate Change Act. Using examples from transport in four major cities, the authors document the socio-political landscape of climate change policy and test alternative theories of multi-level governance. The book should be required reading for anyone concerned with governance in an increasingly complex world. -- Elizabeth Deakin, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley

Based on a major three-year research project, this book explores the various roles of political actors and the policies that deal with the governance of reducing transport-related carbon emissions. Using this clear - and globally crucial - example of climate change governance, the authors are able to tease apart a range of debates and dilemmas and to fully explore the nature, pace and significance of core policies designed to tackle climate change. Much research in the field has over-emphasized the international realm and global policy, whereas this text uncovers the huge importance that domestic policy development plays in reducing emissions. It highlights normative positions that lie at the heart of institutional structures, enabling broader debates into the capacity and future of democratic governance.