The climate crisis represents a unique, collective action problem requiring the collaboration of diverse knowledge systems for enhancing climate policy. To achieve this, the book proposes the following: (1) Supporting SSH-STEM collaborations to foster innovative research and holistic policies; (2) Integrating local knowledge and epistemic justice to ensure inclusive and effective policymaking; (3) Ensuring just and inclusive transitions that advance distributive, procedural, and restorative justice, prioritising community engagement and addressing social vulnerabilities; (4) Learning from the Global South for climate adaptation strategies; and (5) Strengthening climate adaptation through ethical governance which is value-based and locally grounded. Achieving these goals demands profound societal transformations as presented in this collaborative work of Strengthening European climate policy: Governance recommendations from innovative interdisciplinary collaborations.
Book editors
This book is a part of a SSH CENTRE produced collection of three policy-focused edited books on energy, climate and mobility policies. Each book presents ~10 recommendations (one per core chapter) for furthering relevant European Commission strategies, primarily relating to the EU Green Deal programme. All recommendations were based on new collaborations between Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) researchers and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) researchers.
All books are open access.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101069529 and from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant No 10038991].