Brussels, capital of Europe: a sustainable choice?

Parijs, Philippe Van; Parys, Jonathan Van

doi:10.4000/brussels.769

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“…As a result, Addis Ababa is not only where Africa meets, it has also increasingly become where the world meets Africa. Philippe Parijs and Jonathan Parys (2010) term such phenomenon as “civic center of gravity” to refer to “an ever-growing number of plurinational organizations of all types” in Brussels (p. 11).…”

Section: Governing Contested Federal Capital Cities In Ethiopia and B...mentioning

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Federalism and the Governance of Contested Capital Cities: Comparing Addis Ababa and Brussels

Gemechu

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Federal principles do not encourage the dominance of a single locus of power. This is regarded as one of the federal glues that maintain a healthy equilibrium in a federation. By focusing on Brussels and Addis Ababa—the capitals of Belgium and European Union, and Ethiopia and African Union, respectively—this article examines the governances of contested federal capital cities that transcend national politics. The article uses “contested conditions”—historical and contemporary intranational and supranational rivalries and cooperation—to argue that rather than diffusing powers to promote alternative capitals, federalism appears to have enhanced competition over the existing “primate” capital cities.

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Section: Governing Contested Federal Capital Cities In Ethiopia and B...mentioning

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Federalism and the Governance of Contested Capital Cities: Comparing Addis Ababa and Brussels

Gemechu

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…We will explore this issue for the case study of Brussels by taking a traditional bottom-up approach that estimates climate footprint based on the distribution of transport modes used by travellers (Sun & Drakeman, 2020). The choice for Brussels was inspired by the role played by this city as a forum for international political decision-making, which includes European climate policy, while the city and the activities it hosts are an important generator of international travel and the related climate footprint (Van Parijs & Van Parys, 2010). In what follows, we consider the Brussels-Capital Region, which is one of the three administrative regions in Belgium (next to Flanders and Wallonia), home to 1.2 million residents, out of 11.5 million Belgians.…”

Section: The Case Of Brussels Belgium: a Focal Point Of The Travel-climate Issuementioning

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Territorializing International Travel Emissions: Geography and Magnitude of the Hidden Climate Footprint of Brussels

Boussauw

Decroly

2021

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In the present article we investigate the geography and magnitude of the climate footprint of long-distance travel with Brussels, Belgium, as a destination. The internationally networked position of this city goes hand in hand with a strong dependence on international mobility, which largely materializes in impressive volumes of long-distance travel and associated consumption of important amounts of fossil fuel. Despite a surge in concerns about global warming, the climate footprint of most international travel, notably air travel, is not included in the official national and regional climate inventories, or in other words, it is not territorialized. The official climate footprint of the Brussels-Capital Region attained 3.7 Mton CO<sub>2</sub>eq per year (in 2017). Based on our exploratory calculations, however, the total estimated climate footprint of all Brussels-bound international travel equalled an additional 2.7 Mton CO<sub>2</sub>eq. In terms of geographical distribution, over 70% of international travellers to Brussels come from Europe, while these represent only 15% of the climate footprint of all international travel to Brussels. We conclude that the practice of not allocating emissions caused by international travel to territorial units has kept the magnitude and complexity of this problem largely under the radar and contributes to the lack of societal support for curbing growth of international aviation.

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“…For this road to basic income to be a real option there is no need to first accumulate a large fund, nor indeed to be an oil-producing or resource-rich country. 13 Over the longer term however, the Alaska model has the advantage of a permanent flow whereas the Iran model does not. There have been contradictory reports as to where policy makers stand on the issue of the duration of the program.…”

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From Price Subsidies to Basic Income: The Iran Model and Its Lessons

Tabatabai¹

2012

Exporting the Alaska Model

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Brussels, capital of Europe: a sustainable choice?

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Federalism and the Governance of Contested Capital Cities: Comparing Addis Ababa and Brussels

Federalism and the Governance of Contested Capital Cities: Comparing Addis Ababa and Brussels

Territorializing International Travel Emissions: Geography and Magnitude of the Hidden Climate Footprint of Brussels

From Price Subsidies to Basic Income: The Iran Model and Its Lessons

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