Cities on the World Stage

Gordon, David J.

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“…Cities play a strategic role in facilitating the global governance of climate change (Brundtland, 1987; Gordon, 2020). Recently, efforts to tackle the climate emergency have been increasingly mobilized in conjunction with the fight for wider social justice (Bulkeley, 2021; Kotsila et al, 2022; Rice et al, 2023).…”

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Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona

Amorim‐Maia,

Anguelovski,

Chu

et al. 2023

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Cities and local governments are important actors in the global governance of climate change; however, the specific governance principles and arrangements that enable urban climate plans and policies to realize commitments to social equity and justice remain largely unexplored. This article uses the City of Barcelona, Spain, as a critical case study of emerging “intersectional climate justice” practice, where plans to build resilience to climate change are pursued in conjunction with efforts to tackle structural inequalities in accessing the built environment, health services, energy, housing, and transportation experienced by frontline communities. The study illustrates how Barcelona and its community partners do this through four different categories of governance and decision‐making tactics, which include: (1) experimenting with disruptive planning strategies; (2) working transversally across agencies and actors to institutionalize climate justice over time; (3) putting care at the center of urban planning; and (4) mobilizing place‐based approaches to tackle intersecting vulnerabilities of frontline residents. These tactics seek to redistribute the benefits of climate‐resilient infrastructures more fairly and to enhance participatory processes more meaningfully. Finally, we assess the limitations and challenges of mobilizing these tactics in everyday urban politics. Barcelona's experience contributes to research on climate governance by challenging the notion of distinct waves of governance and revealing concurrent dimensions of climate urbanism that coexist spatially and temporally. Our research also illustrates lessons for fairer climate governance in the city, where different tactics are mobilized to address structural and intersecting socioeconomic vulnerabilities that exacerbate the experience of climate change of frontline residents.

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Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona

Amorim‐Maia,

Anguelovski,

Chu

et al. 2023

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Managers of complex change? How United Nations treaty secretariats jointly govern institutional interplay in global environmental governance

Elsässer

2024

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Research on international bureaucracies, such as treaty secretariats, has predominantly focused on broadening our understanding of their role, function, and influence within their respective regulatory domains. However, the potential for treaty secretariats to manage situations of institutional overlap by coordinating with other agencies across policy areas has remained understudied. This article offers new empirical and theoretical insights for studying collective agency and coordination mechanisms in instances of institutional interaction within hybrid regime complexes. Specifically, it investigates how the treaty secretariats of the Rio Conventions under the United Nations employ joint interplay management as a means to improve institutional coherence within the climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification nexus. Collectively, the public agencies aim to advance knowledge and discourse, influence norm‐building processes and regulation, or build capacity and support the joint implementation of policy objectives addressing the interlinked environmental problems. They do this by interacting with various actors across governance levels, including national governments, transnational initiatives, private actors, or civil society. By tracing the process linking joint activities with effects of such interactions, this qualitative case study makes a conceptual contribution by extrapolating a mechanistic theory for joint interplay management. The article demonstrates that treaty secretariats have to contend with challenges of resource allocation, diverging mandates, leadership priorities, and the degree of politicization and timing which frequently intervene stages of strategizing and executing joint activities. The results highlight that joint interplay management can be most impactful when secretariats employ orchestration practices through joint outreach and advocacy to advance coherent institutional responses to interdependent environmental problems.

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Beyond Networking? The Agency of City Network Secretariats in the Realm of City Diplomacy

Lecavalier

Gordon

2020

Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy

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Cities on the World Stage

Cited by 30 publications

References 258 publications

Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona

Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona

Managers of complex change? How United Nations treaty secretariats jointly govern institutional interplay in global environmental governance

Beyond Networking? The Agency of City Network Secretariats in the Realm of City Diplomacy

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