Transformative Climate Governance

Katharina Hölscher is a senior researcher on climate governance and sustainability transitions at the Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT) with Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is involved in various research projects in Europe and worldwide focusing on climate governance and resilience in cities, transformation research and transition management. Katharina has published on climate governance and urban transitions and edited a book on transition management in cities.  Niki Frantzeskaki is Professor on Urban Sustainability Transitions and Director of the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Niki has published close to 100 peer reviewed articles, released three books on urban sustainability transitions and edited 15 special issues about sustainability and sustainability transitions. She coordinates research on environmental governance and urban transitions byleading and being involved in a portfolio of research projects with research institutes across Europe, Canada, Brazil and Australia.

• Chapter 1 A transformative perspective on climate change and climate governance.- Chapter 2 Capacities for transformative climate governance: a conceptual framework.- Chapter 3 Transforming cities and science for climate change resilience in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 4 Navigating transformations under climate change in cities: features and lock-ins of urban climate governance.- Chapter 5 Transforming urban water governance in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.- Chapter 6 Capacities for transformative climate governance in New York City.- Chapter 7 Transforming urban (climate) governance: What do we learn from pro-actively experimenting cities?.- Chapter 8 Climate governance and high-end futures in Europe.- Chapter 9 Operationalising Transition Management for navigating high-end climate futures.- Chapter 10 Capacities in high-end scenarios in Europe: an agency perspective.- Chapter 11 Agency capacities to implement transition pathways under high-end scenarios.- Chapter 12 Sustainable ClimateDevelopment: transforming goals into means.- Chapter 13 Transforming climate governance? Why climate governance is failing and what to do about it.- Chapter 14 Conclusion: Bridging and weaving science and policy knowledges for a research agenda to transform climate governance.