In their new paper, Johannes Suitner, Katharina Gramiller, Alina Bärnthaler, and Barbara Demeterova compare climate governance in the three European mountain regions of Tyrol, Lapland, and Râu Sadului/Sibiu. The researchers find that even comparable climate change challenges are addressed differently in the regions. The authors show that this is due to region-specific “governance cultures,” i.e., learned practices and self-perceptions of policymaking, as well as established networks and framings of regional development. With that, the authors demonstrate for the first time that region-specific cultures of "doing" governance are just as decisive for regional climate change adaptation as evident regional structures and climate change impacts.

The paper is published in "European Journal of Spatial Development" and is available open access at the following link: https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/article/view/46, opens an external URL in a new window