Transformative Climates and Accountable Governance

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Transformative Climates and Accountable Governance

   • Beth Edmondson, Stuart Levy

   Pages 1-8

3. The Limits of States and Changing Regulatory Frameworks—Section One

   • Beth Edmondson, Stuart Levy

   Pages 9-13

4. Order and Accountability in Governing Transforming Environments

   • Beth Edmondson, Stuart Levy

   Pages 15-43

5. Imperatives for Climate Governance for States in the Anthropocene: An Agenda for Transformation

   • Josephine Mummery, Jane Mummery

   Pages 45-73

6. The Empire Strikes Back: Fossil Fuel Companies, Investor-State Dispute Settlement, International Trade, and Accountable Climate Governance

   • Matthew Rimmer

   Pages 75-117

7. The Public’s Perception of International Climate Leadership: Insights from the European Union

   • Jale Tosun, Mile Mišić, Nicole M. Schmidt

   Pages 119-147

8. Selected Studies in Economic and Environmental Accountabilities—Section Two

   • Beth Edmondson, Stuart Levy

   Pages 149-155

9. Allocating the Burdens of Climate Action: Consumption-Based Carbon Accounting and the Polluter-Pays Principle

   • Ross Mittiga

   Pages 157-194

10. Comparison of Human and Non-human Migration Governance Under Climate Change

    • Martina Grecequet, Jessica J. Hellmann, Jack DeWaard, Yudi Li

    Pages 195-221

11. Representing Whose Access and Allocation Interests? Stakeholder Perceptions and Interests Representation in Climate Governance

    • Timothy Cadman, Tek Maraseni, Hugh Breakey, Hwan-ok Ma

    Pages 223-249

12. Constraining Supply: The Moral Case for Limiting Fossil Fuel Exports

    • Jeremy Moss

    Pages 251-271

13. Personal Carbon Trading and Individual Mitigation Accountability

    • Steve Vanderheiden

    Pages 273-299

14. Accountable Governance and Transforming Climates: Where to Next?

    • Beth Edmondson, Stuart Levy

    Pages 301-306

15. Back Matter

    Pages 307-312

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This book explores the real-world consequences changing ideas and strategies have on effective climate governance. Its main focus is on why accountability matters - both for transformations and transitions in international climate change governance and how international support for environmentally responsible actions, and extending shared accountabilities, might strengthen climate governance globally. A main point of discussion is if and how better understanding of accountabilities and transformations in ecosystems dynamics, the capacities of organisms to adapt, migrate or otherwise respond to environmental or climatic changes, can improve climate governance mechanisms. 


Bringing together a diverse set of considerations from various fields of study, chapters examine responses to environmental transformations that occur during periods of climatic crisis, such as species depletion, industrialisation, de-industrialisation or urbanisation. Throughout, this book aims to further readers understanding of if or how accountable climate governance can reduce the risks of global political disorder and widespread conflict in the 21st century, arising from environmental transformations of depleted forests, re-routed waterways, coastlines impacted by sea level rises, changed rainfall patterns and industrial practices. 

• climate governance
• environmental transitions
• transitions
• accountability
• environmental accountability
• climate policy
• environmental management
• climate policy frameworks
• Environmental Geography
• Climate change management
• climate change impacts

• School of Arts, Federation University, Mount Helen, Australia

  Beth Edmondson

• Federation College, Federation University, Churchill, Australia

  Stuart Levy

Beth Edmondson is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts at Federation University Australia. Her research focuses on international responses to global climate change, the possibilities for order in the international political system, the nature of sovereignty and the scope of international law in constructing governmental capacities.


Stuart Levy is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Federation University Australia. His interests in international relations include the nature and evolution of state sovereignty and the politics of global climate change.

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