World's foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students. This title is also available as Open Access.

Part I. Context: 1. Governing climate change polycentrically: setting the scene Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Jonas Schoenefeld, Harro van Asselt and Johanna Forster; Part II. Actors and Domains of Governance: 2. International governance: polycentric governing by and beyond the UNFCCC Harro van Asselt and Fariborz Zelli; 3. National governance: the state's role in steering polycentric action Joana Setzer and Michal Nachmany; 4. Transnational governance: charting new directions post-Paris Harriet Bulkeley, Michele Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew Hoffmann, Peter Newell and Matthew Paterson; 5. City and subnational governance: high ambitions, innovative instruments and polycentric collaborations? Jeroen van der Heijden; Part III. Polycentric Governance Processes: 6. Experimentation: the politics of innovation and learning in polycentric governance Jan-Peter Voß and Fabian Schroth; 7. Entrepreneurship: a key driver of polycentric governance? Elin Lerum Boasson; 8. Leadership and pioneership: exploring their role in polycentric governance Duncan Liefferink and Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel; 9. Diffusion: an outcome of and an opportunity for polycentric activity? Jale Tosun; 10. Linkages: understanding their role in polycentric governance Philipp Pattberg, Sander Chan, Lisa Sanderink and Oscar Widerberg; 11. Orchestration: strategic ordering in polycentric governance Kenneth W. Abbott; 12. Policy surveillance: its role in monitoring, reporting, evaluating and learning Joseph E. Aldy; Part IV. Substantive Governance Challenges: 13. Harnessing the market: trading in carbon allowances Katja Biedenkopf and Jørgen Wettestad; 14. Decarbonisation: the politics of transformation Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann; 15. Transferring technologies: the polycentric governance of clean energy technology Liliana B. Andonova, Paula Castro and Kathryn Chelminski; 16. Governing experimental responses: negative emissions technologies and solar climate engineering Jesse Reynolds; 17. Adaptation: the neglected dimension of polycentric climate governance? Robbert Biesbroek and Alexandra Lesnikowski; 18. Equity and justice in polycentric climate governance Chukwumerije Okereke; 19. Legitimacy and accountability in polycentric climate governance Karin Bäckstrand, Fariborz Zelli and Philip Schleifer; Part V. Synthesis and Conclusions: 20. Governing climate change: the promise and limits of polycentric governance Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt and Johanna Forster; Index.