Special section: advancing the role of cities in climate governance–promise, limits, politics

Jeroen van der Heijden*, James Patterson, Sirkku Juhola, Marc Wolfram

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Abstract

This special issue contributes to scholarly debates about the role of cities in global climate governance, reflecting on the promise, limits, and politics of cities as agents of change. It takes an empirically-informed approach drawing on multiple diverse geographical and political contexts. Overall, the special issue aims to stimulate reflection and debate about where understanding and practice needs improvement to advance the role of cities in global climate governance. Key questions that are addressed in the special issue include: To what extent do real world experiences confirm or disconfirm the high expectations of cities as agents and sites of change in addressing global climate change as expressed in urban climate governance literature? In what ways do internal political dynamics of cities enable or constrain urban climate governance? How is climate governance in cities enabled and constrained by interactions with broader governance levels? In what ways can climate governance in cities be advanced through critical attention to the previous issues?.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)365-373
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Environmental Planning and Management
Volume62
Issue number3
Early online date20 Dec 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Feb 2019

Funding

On behalf of all participants to the INOGOV workshop we wish to thank Professor Rob Imrie (Goldsmits, University of London), Professor Kristine Kern (University of Potsdam), and Professor Jonathan Davies (De Montfoort University) for active participation during the workshop and for providing essential feedback to earlier versions of the papers included in this special section. We also thank the INOGOV organisation for support.

FundersFunder number
INOGOV
University of London
Universität PotsdamPotsdam

    Keywords

    • Cities
    • climate governance
    • governance experiments
    • multi-level governance

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