1st Edition

Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance focuses on pioneers, leaders and followers as central drivers for international climate change governance innovations. A burgeoning literature has identified pioneers and leaders as central drivers for international climate change governance innovations. A wide range of actors (such as international... Read more

1. Pioneers, leaders and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Duncan Liefferink and Diarmuid Torney

2. Leadership and lesson-drawing in the European Union’s multilevel climate governance system

Martin Jänicke and Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel

3. Environmental, climate and social leadership of small enterprises: Fairphone’s step-by-step approach

Katja Biedenkopf, Sarah Van Eynde and Kris Bachus

4. Climate pushers or symbolic leaders? The limits to corporate climate leadership by food retailers

Johann Dupuis and Remi Schweizer

5. The oil and gas sector: from climate laggard to climate leader?

Matthew Bach

6. Oil and power industries’ responses to EU emissions trading: laggards or low-carbon leaders?

Per Ove Eikeland and Jon Birger Skjærseth

7. Cities as leaders in EU multilevel climate governance: embedded upscaling of local experiments in Europe

Kristine Kern

8. Climate pioneership and leadership in structurally disadvantaged maritime port cities

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Jeremy F.G. Moulton, Winfried Osthorst, Linda Mederake, Pauline Deutz and Andrew E.G. Jonas

9. Follow the leader? Conceptualising the relationship between leaders and followers in polycentric climate governance

Diarmuid Torney

Biography

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel is Professor of Comparative European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Studies at the University of Hull, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for European Union Studies (CEUS).



Duncan Liefferink is Assistant Professor in the Environmental Governance and Politics group, Institute for Management Research, at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.



Diarmuid Torney is Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government in Dublin City University, Ireland.