ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the new approaches which are applied to the climate change mitigation projects that emphasise the interplay between public agents and citizens and harness the full potential of working with social groups, collectivities and networks. Therefore it focuses on citizen initiatives, engagement and participation in climate change mitigation, but only in so far as these activities are embedded in a relationship between public agencies and citizens as individuals or as members of different types of communities. Because such collaborative arrangements can be seen as governance technologies. This way of approaching the subject has important implications for both how one defines the citizen participation in climate change mitigation, and for the roles that citizen initiatives and green movements. The figure combines a vertical axis representing the initiation of climate change mitigation interventions with a horizontal axis representing the focus of these interventions. Traditional approaches to climate change mitigation are often driven from above and focus on individuals.
