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The Politics of Urban Climate Change Policy

Toward a Research Agenda

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ID6405313
AuthorsSara Hughes (0000-0002-1282-6235, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume53
Issue2
Pages362-380
Publication date2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1078087416649756
OpenAlexW2351272113
LanguageEN
Citations received66
References cited49

Urban politics research has not kept pace—empirically or theoretically—with city governments’ engagement with climate change policy. Thousands of cities globally have made commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and are taking steps toward these goals. In the United States, research has examined the motivations for such actions and has described some of the implementation challenges cities are encountering, but we lack a theoretically informed understanding of how these actions intersect politically with existing interests, institutions, and fiscal realities in cities. This article identifies five political entry points that are specific to urban climate change policy and can provide a foundation for empirically and theoretically valuable research. The pursuit of such an interdisciplinary urban research agenda for climate change would enhance our understanding of when and how cities are successful in addressing climate change and would provide new answers to long-standing questions in urban politics

Climate change · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Greenhouse gas · Pace · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban climate · Urban planning · Urban policy · Urban politics · Urbanization · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Urban Studies

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