Do decision-maker diversity, trust, and policy entrepreneurship matter when steering transformative urban climate governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6418921 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Le Anh Nguyen Long (0000-0002-6188-9646, University of Twente, corresponding author), Rachel M Krause (0000-0003-1490-1996, University of Kansas), Gwen Arnold (0000-0001-6211-6867, University of California, Davis), Mohsen Fatemi (0000-0002-8794-1991), S Mohsen Fatemi (University of Kansas), Sara Ludwick (University of California, Davis) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 170 |
| Pages | 106668-106668 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-2751 • E-ISSN: 1873-6084 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106668 |
| OpenAlex | W7105899045 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 75 |
Under threat from increasingly frequent and intense climate hazards, local communities are seeking to transform into more climate-ready and resilient spaces. To achieve this aim, they must have the capacity to govern challenging transformative processes. Here, the relationship between patterned interactions among people involved in governance and transformative capacity are assessed. These interactions form the networked micro-decision context (NMDC). The paper leverages a unique dataset on climate resiliency in 401 U.S. cities to test whether the composition of the NMDC and the quality of interactions among its members affect a city's transformative governance capacity. Survey results are nuanced with 22 interviews with NMDC members in three climate-vulnerable cities. The results indicate that NMDCs with high disciplinary diversity, trusting relationships, and a policy entrepreneur exhibited higher levels of transformative governance capacity. The findings emphasize the importance of public administration in enabling ambitious environmental policy and promoting local climate readiness.
Accountability · Affect (linguistics) · Climate change · Climate governance · Climate policy · Context (archaeology) · Corporate governance · Entrepreneurship · Transformative learning · Urban climate · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Policy and Administration Research · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Urban Planning and Governance
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |