Experimentalist Sustainability Governance: Jazzing up Environmental Blues? (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper discusses a novel approach that may satisfy various needs in participatory climate change governance: experimentalist governance. The reason for focusing on governance in the first place is that, while many movements in support of sustainability are encouraging, what is often lacking is a sense of effective 1 and coherent governance for sustainable development. Governance is crucial for addressing climate change and sustainability. 2 The development and implementation of long‐term low‐ carbon development require challenging existing routines, ways of thinking, and physical and mental barriers in existing institutions 3 and policies. Sustainability governance involves the deliberate adjustment of governance practices and societal institutions in order to maximize the opportunities for continued human progress along a sustainable trajectory. The proposed definition of sustainability governance in this paper is: “a reflexive, contextual and social human activity in instituti...

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