Democratizing Global Climate Governance

Hayley Stevenson is Lecturer in International Relations and Global Environmental Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance (2013). John S. Dryzek is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Political Science in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Australian National University. His recent books include The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (co-edited with Richard Norgaard and David Schlosberg, 2011) and The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses, 3rd edition (2013).

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The challenge of global climate governance; 2. Global climate governance as a deliberative system; 3. Governance with and without institutionalized authority: the importance of public space; 4. Authoritative global governance: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; 5. Emerging centers of networked authority; 6. Transmitting public concerns in the deliberative system; 7. Accountability; 8. Improving the global deliberative system; 9. Conclusion: looking for reflexivity.