Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation

Jens Hoff is Professor in National and International Governance and Public Policy at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Quentin Gausset is a Lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

• 1. Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation: An Introduction 2. The Conundrum of Calculating Carbon Footprints 3. ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ – Climate Change Mitigation and Citizen Participation 4. On the Materialisation of Participation in a Municipality Near You 5. Environmental Choices: Hypocrisy, Self-Contradictions and the Tyranny of Everyday Life 6. Energy Renovation Models in Private Households in Denmark 7. Climate Ambassador Programmes in Municipalities: Encouraging climate change mitigation in public administrations and institutions 8. A local energy transition success story 9.Incorporating Climate Change Mitigation Programmes in Local Administration: The Case of the CCP Programmes in Australia and New Zealand 10. ’A Change of Just a Few Degrees’: The possibilities and challenges of local American climate mitigation 11. How Many Thick Television Sets Can There Be in the World? Recycling workers and customers reflect on changing roles, recycling routines and resource flows 12. Klimafesten: A Case Study of a Municipality’s Intervention to Engage Citizens in Environmentally Sustainable Actions 13. Computer Games and Social Innovation: Participation through Micro-contributions

"Full of new insights into the potential of citizens and their communities, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we can move beyond the promise of technological fixes or individual behaviour change to address new forms of governing climate change that place forms of active citizenship and collaboration at their heart. The book makes a convincing case for the need for policy makers to engage with new approaches to engaging citizens in responding to climate change across multiple scales." – Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University, UK"A paradox of climate change is that this most global of problems is simultaneously profoundly local in its causes, impacts, and solutions. Hoff and Gausset have assembled a wonderful collection that explores the multiple and diverse ways that local communities from around the world are grappling with climate change and the transformations needed to respond to it. This book is not only cutting edge scholarship, it is also provides a crucial window into the practices, challenges, and practical politics of local responses necessary for solving this global problem." – Matthew Hoffmann, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto