The Politics of Urban Climate Change Policy
Toward a Research Agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6405313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Hughes (0000-0002-1282-6235, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 362-380 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087416649756 |
| OpenAlex | W2351272113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 49 |
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
Climate Policy Progression
Compelled to Coordinate
Who should “do more” about climate change? Cultural theory, polycentricity, and public support for climate change actions across actors and governments
Staff support and administrative capacity in strategic planning for local sustainability
Urban Climate Governance and the Unevenness of City Networks
Fiscal footprint
Toward co-creation
A klímavédelem realitásai a hazai városokban
Urban green space planning in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana
Waste Warriors
Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global climate change
Bibliometric analysis and global research trends of climate change and cities studies for 30 years (1990–2021)
The role of goal-setting in urban climate governance
Studying urban climate governance
Cities as public agents
The political economy of city diplomacy
Effectiveness of Urban Climate Change Governance in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia
Mobilizing smart grid experiments
Not a ‘Petro Metro’
City low-carbon transitions
Unlikely pioneers
The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance
City-networks, global climate governance, and the road to 1.5 °C
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Just urban transitions
Global urban climate governance in three and a half parts
Urbanising climate justice
Not so global climate change? Representations of post-socialist cities in the academic writings on climate change and urban areas
The necessity of pragmatic muddling. Ten Swedish early adopter cities navigating climate adaptation policy-implementation in the urban built environment
The influences of power, politics, and climate risk on US subnational climate action
Policy Analysis of Instrument Design
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States
Becoming Editors
Green Dreams, Concrete Realities
More than planning
Climate justice is social justice
Climate Change Adaptation Planning
Sustainability backfire
Urban climate governance in Russia
A contingent diffusion model of local climate change policy adoption
Governing garbage
Viewpoints
Climate change and municipal finance
A changing role in global climate governance
How to green your city? Boundary challenges and net zero place leadership
Comparing Urban Citizenship, Sanctuary Cities, Local Bureaucratic Membership, and Regularizations
Anchor Institutions as Adaptation Allies
Coordinated planning effort as multilevel climate governance
Bridging international and domestic factors in climate multilevel governance
Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities
Community-led management of the (urban) commons
Remaking Political Institutions
The Perfect Amount of Help
The urbanization of climate finance
LGBTQ + Grassroots Activists’ Perspectives on Banning Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
What Motivates Local Sustainability Policy Action in China? The Case of Low-Carbon City Pilot Program
Urban Climate Governance Experimentation in Seoul
From Progressive Cities to Resilient Cities
Connecting Mayors
Cities and climate change
The Role of Pilot Projects in Urban Climate Change Policy Innovation
Voters, Neighbors, and City Performance in Environmental Sustainability Transitions
El giro climático en el planeamiento urbano en Bogotá
Urban Pressures and Innovations
Superimposition
Policy implementation styles and local governments
The Politics of Urban Governance
City Limits
Climate Governance at the Crossroads
Cities and Climate Change
Governing from Below
A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation
Symbolic or Substantive Policy? Measuring the Extent of Local Commitment to Climate Protection
Mitigating Climate Change in US Cities
Governing for the Long Term
Networks Are Not Enough . . . But They Do Matter
Policy Innovation, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Adoption of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Cities
Governance and Meta-governance in the Face of Complexity
Cities and Climate Change
Looking Back and Thinking Ahead
An Assessment of the Impact that Participation in Local Climate Networks Has on Cities’ Implementation of Climate, Energy, and Transportation Policies
Global Cities and Transnational Climate Change Networks
Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century City
What We Argue about When We Argue about Regionalism
Urban Regimes and the Capacity to Govern
The Ungovernable City
Power and Policy Networks in Urban Governance
Political Decision-making and the Local Provision of Public Goods
An Entrepreneurial City in Action
Forms of Government and Climate Change Policies in US Cities
Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership
Risk, Stress, and Capacity
City Caesars
Reflections on Regime Politics
The Nation-State and Urban Governance
Understanding Local Adoption and Implementation of Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Cities and Sustainability
Is Urban Politics a Black Hole? Analyzing the Boundary Between Political Science and Urban Politics
Watershed Partnerships and the Emergence of Collective Action Institutions
Local Institutions and the Politics of Urban Growth
When Mayors Matter
Collaborative Institutions in an Ecology of Games
Cooptation or Transformation? Local Policy Networks and Federal Regulatory Enforcement
Development Ballot Measures, Interest Group Endorsements, and the Political Geography of Growth Preferences
| Unique citing works | 66 |
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| Citations per year | 7,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |