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.

List of contents

1. Introduction Lisa Vanhala and Elisa Calliari; 2. Theory and methods Lisa Vanhala and Elisa Calliari; 3. The loss and damage policy landscape: Tuvalu as a 'most likely case' Elisa Calliari; 4. Knowledge politics on the frontlines: the problem of acknowledging loss and damage in Antigua and Barbuda Lisa Vanhala and Michai Robertson; 5. After the storm: the institutionally disruptive impacts of climate change in the Bahamas Lisa Vanhala, Adelle Thomas and Latonya Williams; 6. Loss and damage in a land-locked state: the paradox of Ethiopia's green economy Lisa Vanhala, Selam Kidane Abebe and Asaye Ketema; 7. Loss and damage policy in Bangladesh: from domestic challenges to global engagements Douwe van Schie, Md Fahad Hossain and Nusrat Naushin; 8. 'Money for the poor': perceptions of loss and damage in Peru's emerging economy Elisa Calliari and Monserrat Madariaga Gómez de Cuenca; 9. (Non-)Governance evolving: COP25 and Chile's growing engagement with loss and damage Monserrat Madariaga Gómez De Cuenca; 10. Conclusion.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa (University College London) Calliari Vanhala
• Assisted by: Elisa Calliari (Editor), Lisa Vanhala (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781009565097
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0956509-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: The Politics of Climate Change
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Comparative Politics, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism