Walking the Talk
Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanya Bery (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA), Mary Alice Haddad (0000-0003-1504-2142, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1385-1407 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/10780874221098951 |
| OpenAlex | W4280649753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 54 |
Why do some municipalities adopt ambitious climate action plans and others do not? This study examines United States cities that have signed the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, to identify the factors that have led some of them (37 percent, 63 cities) to adopt ambitious (Net Zero) climate action plans. It finds that two factors make the most difference: (a) whether the city has a paid city employee (or department) dedicated to environmental/energy management and (b) whether the city has a university. Other factors, such as per capita income, city revenue, state funding, size, partisan orientation, and membership in international climate networks, did not significantly influence how ambitious a city's climate action plan was. This study combines a statistical analysis of the signatory cities with a qualitative study Middletown Connecticut to explain why city energy managers and universities can have such a positive effect on city climate action
Action (physics · Action plan · Business · Climate change · Covenant · Economic growth · Economics · Global city · Incentive · Management · Market economy · Per capita · Per capita income · Political science · Revenue · Sociology · State (computer science · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Demography · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth · Law · Finance
Climate Policy Progression
Exploring the diversity of social innovations in urban energy and climate transitions. Findings from a broad survey among German municipalities
Putting Action in Climate Action Plans
Do the type of impact and vulnerability dimension matter when assessing natural hazard vulnerability
Integrating evidence of the health benefits of nature-based solutions into urban climate policies
How do local factors shape transformation pathways towards climate-neutral and resilient cities
Urban climate actions
Conditions influencing City-level adaptation and mitigation
Enabling effective climate action plans at city level
How can cities achieve accelerated systemic decarbonization? Analysis of six frontrunner cities
The Pernicious Effects of Uncertainty on Municipal Climate Action
Which Plans Matter for Creating Actionable, Equitable Climate Policy
The Transaction Costs of the Administrative Presidency
The discursive construction of urban climate policy
Structure, agency and local climate governance
Sustainable digitalization of cities? A spatiotemporal perspective on digital humanism
Do zero waste pledges and goals increase municipal waste diversion rates
Small towns taking different climate change adaptation paths
The barriers to uptake of disaster risk management science in urban planning
Bureaucratic Ambition
Beyond the third mission
A review on Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis using bibliometric and meta-analysis
Strengthening city–university partnerships to advance sustainability solutions
Trends in Resource Capacity and Collaboration for City Sustainability
Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve
Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis
Thermally resilient communities
How transit scaling shapes cities
National energy transition, local partisanship? Elite cues, community identity, and support for clean power in the United States
Unlikely pioneers
City-networks, global climate governance, and the road to 1.5 °C
Innovative policy practices to advance building energy efficiency and retrofitting
University partnerships for co-designing and co-producing urban sustainability
Does Collaboration Make Any Difference? Linking Collaborative Governance to Environmental Outcomes
Building actor-centric transformative capacity through city-university partnerships
Drinking from the Talent Pool
Size does matter
The Tea Party versus Agenda 21
The Perfect Amount of Help
Activists beyond borders
Citizen Partisanship, Local Government, and Environmental Policy Implementation
Comparing Climate Change Policy Adoption and Its Extension across Areas of City Policymaking
Does Collaboration Improve Organizational Efficiency? A Stochastic Frontier Approach Examining Cities’ Use of EECBG Funds
What can ‘benchmarking’ offer the open method of co-ordination
Civil Society and Sustainable Cities
Bureaucratic Job Mobility and The Diffusion of Innovations
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |