Studying urban climate governance
Where to begin, what to look for, and how to make a meaningful contribution to scholarship and practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13129151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeroen Van Der Heijden (0000-0001-6188-0556, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Pages | 100005-100005 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Earth System Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2589-8116 • E-ISSN: 2589-8116 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.esg.2019.100005 |
| OpenAlex | W2943030340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 70 |
Cities are key in climate mitigation and adaptation, and they have developed into sites of innovative urban climate governance that can spur on climate action. Building on this development, a rich scholarship (within earth system governance and beyond) is now available that seeks to understand the development and performance of urban climate governance around the world. This article systematically reviews a decade of urban climate governance scholarship (building on 260 publications from 2009 to 2018). It is informed in this by four research challenges that were identified by leading scholars of urban climate governance a decade ago. The article seeks to understand how much progress has been made in the literature during this decade, and to identify the key research challenges for the critical decade that lies ahead of us
Climate change · Climate governance · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Management · Political science · Scholarship · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Law · Public Administration · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Speaking truth to power? Climate activism and the struggle for a digital city twin
Synergistic effect of environmental governance instruments embedded in social contexts
Voters Support and Are Willing to Pay for Local Climate Adaptation Policies
Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance
The evolving role of climate commissions in the mi(d)st of unambitious UK climate policy, urban climate governance experimentation and place-based climate action
Barcelona’s science diplomacy
Localising Global Climate Agendas
Overcoming gridlock? The role of city networks in transnational cooperation on climate mitigation
The diverse cities of global urban climate governance
Institutionalizing urban climate governance in the global South? Evidence from Tehran urban management, Iran
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements
How do local factors shape transformation pathways towards climate-neutral and resilient cities
The strategic value of contradictions
Conditions influencing City-level adaptation and mitigation
Influence of multilevel and polycentric governance structures on climate change mitigation and adaptation in 209 German municipalities
Beyond bouncing back? Comparing and contesting urban resilience frames in US and Latin American contexts
Semiotic landscape in a green capital
Urban water management and climate change adaptation
How can cities achieve accelerated systemic decarbonization? Analysis of six frontrunner cities
To what extent is sustainability addressed at urban scale and how aligned is it with Earth's productive capacity
Not so polycentric
Urban Climate Change Governance within Centralised Governments
From climate policy pioneers to climate policy leaders? The examples of the eastern German cities of Potsdam and Rostock
Growth management for low-carbon development patterns – leverages in state planning enabling legislation
Intentionality and visibility in state- and society-led climate approaches
Explaining emission reductions in cities
Towards explanations for stability and change in modes of environmental governance
Municipal capacities and institutional responses in the age of climate uncertainties
Cities as public agents
Multi-level climate governance or contested carbon exceptionalism? The (re)making of a low-carbon city in Shenzhen, China
Effectiveness of Urban Climate Change Governance in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia
How do cities challenge patterns of demand? Characterising the local governance of climate change in Nordic cities
Forerunner city or net-zero opportunist? Carbon dioxide removal in Stockholm, residual emissions and risks of mitigation deterrence
Climate action close to home
Drivers and barriers to municipal climate change adaptation
Rethinking urban adaptation as a scalar geopolitics of climate governance
Casting doubts on the growth machine? Doughnut economics, an ambiguous innovation in Amsterdam governance
What functions for city networks in local climate governance? Conceptualising cross-site interactions as learning, moulding and steering
Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors
Framing of innovation in urban Australian municipal climate policy
The necessity of pragmatic muddling. Ten Swedish early adopter cities navigating climate adaptation policy-implementation in the urban built environment
Empowering city decision-makers
A comparative review of urban climate governance in Chinese and Western contexts
Ten years after Copenhagen
When opportunity backfires
Many roads to Paris
The integration of nature conservation in land-use management practices in rural municipalities
New Actors in the Old Hierarchies
Governing climate mitigation in a megacity
Giving the green light to sustainability
In the name of “low-carbon cities”
The urbanization of climate finance
Philanthropic foundations as urban climate policy entrepreneurs
It’s all in the details
The discursive construction of urban climate policy
Structure, agency and local climate governance
The transformative capacity of local administrations in sustainability transitions
Supporting the agency of cities as climate migration destinations
The role of goal-setting in urban climate governance
An economic appraisal of the SE(C)AP public interventions towards the EU 2050 target
Governing climate neutrality transitions at the urban level
Salvador
How well do climate adaptation policies align with risk-based approaches? An assessment framework for cities
Recife
Three tensions in governing energy demand
Pathways for future climate action planning in urban Ghana
Unveiling urban governance diversity
Anticipatory climate governance
Populist far right discursive-institutional tactics in European regional decarbonization
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers
Matching forerunner cities
The Politics of Urban Governance
Designing Public Policies
Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy
Cities and Climate Change
Climate change response in Europe
Inclusive approaches to urban climate adaptation planning and implementation in the Global South
Society
Living Lab
Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C
Urban living labs for sustainability and low carbon cities in Europe
Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research
Theories of Urban Politics
Policy Innovation, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Adoption of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Cities
Cities in a World Economy
Looking Back and Thinking Ahead
A framework for urban climate resilience
Cities and the Governing of Climate Change
Grounded Theory
Learning to adapt to climate change in urban areas. A review of recent contributions
The expanding field of cooperative initiatives for decarbonization
Focus on cumulative emissions, global carbon budgets and the implications for climate mitigation targets
Instrument interactions and relationships in policy mixes
Global urban climate governance in three and a half parts
Cities to the rescue? Assessing the performance of transnational municipal networks in global climate governance
Valuing the Contributions of Nonstate and Subnational Actors to Climate Governance
Inequality in new global governance arrangements
Paradoxes of Public Participation in Climate Change Governance
A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities
Financing the resilient city
Climate Protection and Energy Sustainability Policy in California Cities
Urban Governance and the Politics of Climate change
Does Collaboration Make Any Difference? Linking Collaborative Governance to Environmental Outcomes
The New Urban Politics as a Politics of Carbon Control
Eco-financing for low-carbon buildings and cities
How Policy Rules Shape the Structure and Performance of Collaborative Governance Arrangements
The politics of decarbonization and the catalytic impact of subnational climate experiments
Cities, Europeanization and Multi‐level Governance
Understanding social theory
Applying Policy Termination Theory to the Abandonment of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Local Governments
The Politics of Urban Climate Change Policy
Local Place-Based Collaborative Governance
Can Urban Regimes Travel in Time and Space? Urban Regime Theory, Urban Governance Theory, and Comparative Urban Politics
Urban Leadership and Community Involvement
Cities and Sustainability
The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective
How does collaborative governance scale
Two Logics of Indirect Governance
The Urban Climate Challenge
The democratic legitimacy of orchestration
Urban Laboratories
Revisiting the urban politics of climate change
Governance and the Geography of Authority
City networks
| Unique citing works | 72 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 12 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 69 |