Book contents
- Innovating Climate Governance
- Innovating Climate Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Beyond Experiments
- 2 Global Climate Governance after Paris
- Part I Experiments
- 3 Anchoring and Mobility of Local Energy Concepts
- 4 Realigning Circulations
- 5 Understanding Public Dialogue as an Embedded Democratic Innovation in UK Climate Governance
- 6 Broadening Experimentation through Research-Industry Collaboratives in the Australian Water Sector
- Part II Beyond Experiments
- Index
- References
4 - Realigning Circulations
How Urban Climate Change Experiments Gain Traction
from Part I - Experiments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2018
Book contents
- Innovating Climate Governance
- Innovating Climate Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Beyond Experiments
- 2 Global Climate Governance after Paris
- Part I Experiments
- 3 Anchoring and Mobility of Local Energy Concepts
- 4 Realigning Circulations
- 5 Understanding Public Dialogue as an Embedded Democratic Innovation in UK Climate Governance
- 6 Broadening Experimentation through Research-Industry Collaboratives in the Australian Water Sector
- Part II Beyond Experiments
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores climate experiments and governance innovations in the context of the institutionalisation of practices of public participation in climate governance, drawing from approaches in STS (science and technology studies) and political science. It does this by drawing on in-depth ethnographic work on institutionalised approaches to public participation in the UK Government, namely the ‘public dialogue’ processes supported by Government-funded expert body Sciencewise around different science policy issues related to climate governance. Sciencewise’s public dialogues are studied as one particular ‘democratic innovation’ in climate governance, characterising a set of governance and democratic practices, materials and procedures which have developed and become standardised over time.
Recent criticisms of institutionalised practices of public participation have characterised these processes as laboratory experiments, closely framed and controlled in order to produce legitimate and acceptable outcomes. However, work on the histories, philosophies and geographies of scientific experimentation continually draws attention to the continual overflowing of laboratory experiments; showing that they are always social, and always have the potential break out of their narrow framings and controlled settings.
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- Innovating Climate GovernanceMoving Beyond Experiments, pp. 69 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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