CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables vii List of Contributors ix Preface xi List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii 1 From Kyoto to the Town Hall: Transforming National Strategies into Local and Individual Action 1 Lennart J. Lundqvist and Anders Biel 2 Coping with Climate Change: Sweden's Climate Strategy as a Case in Point 13 Lennart J. Lundqvist and Anders Biel 3 Explaining Public Trust in Institutions: The Role of Consensual Expert Ideas 27 Monika Bauhr 4 Is there a Trade-Off Between Cost-Effective Climate Policies and Political Legitimacy?43 Henrik Hammar and Sverker C. Jagers 5 Assessing Values in Environmental Policy Formation 59 Andreas Nilsson and Anders Biel 6 Organizational Culture, Professional Norms and Local Implementation of National Climate Policy 77 Chris van Borgstede, Mathias Zannakis and Lennart J. Lundqvist 7 Policy Effectiveness and the Diffusion of Carbon-Free Energy Technology: The Case of Wind Power 93 Patrik Soderholm, Maria Pettersson, Kristina Ek and Gabriel Michanek 8 Sharing Burdens in the European Union for the Protection of the Global Climate: A Swedish Perspective Lena Gipperth 119 9 Governing the Climate, (B)ordering the World 137 Johannes Stripple 10 Multilevel Governance : A Solution to Climate Change Management ? Anders Biel and Lennart J. Lundquist Index 165