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17 - The Multi-Level Governance Challenge of Climate Change in Brazil

from Part IV - Sustainability and Climate Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2020

By
Leila da Costa Ferreira
Edited by
Katharine Legun ,
Julie C. Keller ,
Michael Carolan  and
Michael M. Bell
Katharine Legun
Affiliation:
Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Julie C. Keller
Affiliation:
University of Rhode Island
Michael Carolan
Affiliation:
Colorado State University
Michael M. Bell
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Summary

Most of the literature on climate policy is occupied by research on global and regional levels of governance, focusing on norms, rules and decision processes regarding the international climate regime. Despite these necessary contributions, taking account of the regional and local dimension of the theme is also relevant, since most human activities that contribute to global climate changes take place at these levels and, at the same time, these level is the most affected by the impacts of these changes. In this sense, this article analyzes political responses to the climate issue in Brazil in multi-level governance. Within social and political dimensions of the climate issue, this article highlights governments as relevant stakeholders in proposing appropriate forms of climate change governance understanding that they are not the only ones facing this challenge Following the growing international movement of local responses to climate change in Brazil, this type of action was more expressive first at the city level. Then, it reached the state level and finally, the federal level.

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multi-level governanceclimate changeclimate policymitigationBrazil
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The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology , pp. 285 - 300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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