Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage : The National Turn

The first book-length treatment of how loss and damage policy and politics works at the national level, this book appeals to a broad audience with its timely focus on a headline-dominating issue. A valuable primer for practitioners addressing loss and damage, including policymakers, experts, and civil society stakeholders.

Climate-related loss and damage has been dominating international climate change negotiations in recent years. Until now we have had little understanding of how individual states are grappling with climate change destruction. Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage offers among the first book-length explorations of how loss and damage policy works at a national level. It focuses specifically on countries in the Global South on the frontline of climate change to identify new mechanisms through which key factors – climate risks and impacts, international developments, national institutions and the ideational landscape – shape policy engagement, development and adoption. Guided by an original theoretical framework and seven original empirical case studies, this book shows the way to more effective governance of loss and damage now and in the future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.