A new framework for collaborative climate governance: linking consensus building and collective action

Collaborative governance has generated influential theoretical frameworks, yet existing research often relies on qualitative reasoning and pays limited attention to the micro-level behavioural dynamics that shape the transition from consensus building to collective action. This article develops a new framework for collaborative climate governance that conceptualises collaboration as a dynamic, sequential process linking these two phases. Drawing on a mixed-method approach that combines extensive field studies with evolutionary game modelling, the study examines how stakeholder behaviours and interaction patterns underpin collaborative outcomes over time. The framework conceptualises consensus building as the…

• SS
  Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province

  Award: 25ZZD002
• NS
  National Social Science Fund of China

  Award: 25FGLB030 and 21&ZD174
• HA
  Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China

  Award: 25YJC630204