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The Evaluation of Polycentric Climate Governance, by Jonas J. Schoenefeld Cambridge University Press, 2023, 350 pp, £105 hb, US$ 135 ebk ISBN 9781316511244 hb, 9781009059381 ebk

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The Evaluation of Polycentric Climate Governance, by Jonas J. Schoenefeld Cambridge University Press, 2023, 350 pp, £105 hb, US$ 135 ebk ISBN 9781316511244 hb, 9781009059381 ebk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2024

Harro van Asselt*
Affiliation:
Department of Land Economy and Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge (UK)

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3 See A. Jordan et al., ‘Governing Climate Change Polycentrically: Setting the Scene’, in Jordan et al., n. 2 above, pp. 3–25.

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5 Rather than an untested assumption, one could argue that it is an essential prerequisite for the functioning of polycentric governance; see, e.g., Zeben, J. van, ‘Polycentricity as a Theory of Governance’, in van Zeben, J. & Bobić, A. (eds), Polycentricity in the European Union (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 927Google Scholar, at 26.