Higher Education Policy for Tackling Climate Change

Jouni Kekäle is Chief Senior Specialist and a Professor at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include academic leadership, human resource management, and organizational cultures in higher education.Rómulo Pinheiro is Full Professor of Public Policy and Administration and Deputy Head of Department at the University of Agder, Norway. His research interests are located at the intersection of public policy and administration, organizational theory, economic geography, innovation and higher education studies.

• Chapter 1: Climate change, higher education and the wicked problem of time.- Chapter 2: Climate change policy for Higher Education? Investigating the cases of the Netherlands and the UK.- Chapter 3: Reframing, reacting, or responding? The climate emergency and higher education in Ireland.- Chapter 4: Government R&D funding policy for academic research: are there incentives for climate change solutions?.- Chapter 5: UK Universities and climate change.- Chapter 6: Mapping efforts in Polish Higher Education to tackle Climate Change.- Chapter 7: Green-dealing in Czech Higher Education: Agenda only for the Initiated?.- Chapter 8: Responses to Climate Change: Context, Action, and Future Directions of China's Universities.- Chapter 9: The role of intra-national research collaboration and funding on generating social and policy impact on the Amazon biome.- Chapter 10: Allies in the combat against climate change? The role of climate change for university alliances.- Chapter 11: Universities and Climate Change: One step back and two steps forward?.