Decentralized Governance and Climate Change

Edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Emeritus Regents Professor of Economics and founding Director, Public Finance Research Cluster and International Center for Public Policy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA, Paul Smoke, Professor of Public Finance and Planning, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, USA and Serdar Yilmaz, Practice Manager, Public Finance and Procurement, Global Governance Practice, The World Bank, USA and Adjunct Faculty, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye

• ContentsForeword xivAcknowledgements xviiiPART I INTRODUCTION1 Decentralized governance and climate change: Basics,opportunities, and challenges 2Paul Smoke, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Serdar YilmazPART II FINANCING AND MANAGING CLIMATE CHANGEIN A DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM2 Redesigning fiscal decentralization to combat climate change 29Jorge Martinez-Vazquez3 Managing administrative decentralization for subnationalclimate action 52Paul Smoke and Mitchell Cook4 Multilevel governance of climate change and ecologicaltransition 78Sean Dougherty and Andoni Montes Nebreda5 Climate adaptation: Why local governments cannot do it alone 96Simon Touboul, David Munká and Catherine GamperPART III REGIONAL AND COUNTRY CASE STUDIES OFCLIMATE ACTION6 Decentralized governance and climate change in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean 126María Dolores Almeida, Huáscar Eguino, Juan Luis GómezReino andAxel Radics7 Leveraging decentralization for climate action in Africa 162Onur Erdem and Maud Frangi8 The role of decentralized governance in climate change actionin East Asia 179Alma Kanani, Muhammad Khudadad Chattha andMin Zhao9 Decentralized governance and climate change in Brazil 203Carolina L. Vaira, Rose Mirian Hofmann and Isabella Vallejo10 The role of subnational governments in China’sdecarbonization program 218Roy Bahl11 Climate change and India’s federalism 231Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Farah Zahir12 Building subnational resilience in Nepal 242Rachana Shrestha13 Subnational climate change governance in South Africa 255Albertus SchoemanPART IV FISCAL INSTRUMENTS AND FINANCINGMECHANISMS FOR CLIMATE ACTION14 Local solutions: Financing climate action through land valuecapture 268Patrick Welch, Enrique R. Silva, Martim O. Smolka and Amy Cotter15 Market-based climate financing instruments for subnationalgovernments 295Farah Imrana Hussain16 Fiscal tools for subnational ecosystem and climate action 313Serdar Yilmaz and Farah Zahir17 Climate change and intergovernmental fiscal relations: Policyreform options 338Luiz de Mello and Teresa Ter-MinassianPART V CONCLUSION18 Looking forward: Strategically advancing subnationalgovernment climate action 360Paul Smoke, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Serdar Yilmaz

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