Dr Jonas J. Schoenefeld is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Housing and Environment (IWU), Germany, and a Visiting Researcher at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK. He earned his doctorate from the University of East Anglia and an MPhil from the University of Oxford. He co-edited a special issue on the politics of policy evaluation in the European Union for the German Political Science Quarterly and has published several peer-reviewed articles in the areas of climate change policy, policy evaluation and the European Union.
'This important book brings together solid empirical material and novel theoretical insight into the role of evaluation in climate governance. I find it of great interest for evaluation research and practice, and for analyses of the emerging polycentric patterns of climate governance.' Mikael Hildén, Finnish Environment Institute 'Evaluating public policies is analytically demanding, which is the reason why the most compelling studies concentrate on one or a few cases. Jonas Schoenefeld demonstrates with this well designed and executed study that rigorous and yet comprehensive evaluation is possible. He also contributes to the growing body of research on polycentric climate governance by making the case that it is necessary to identify its concrete empirical implications and to subject them to an analysis of how they deliver on their theoretically derived promise in the real world.' Jale Tosun, University of Heidelberg