Comprehensive local climate policy: The role of urban governance

Lee, Taedong; Painter, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2015.09.003

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“…The analysis of transcripts largely confirms the lack of systematic, holistic approaches to governing UCT, as highlighted in previous literature (e.g., Wamsler et al 2014; Lee and Painter 2015). Generally, stakeholders possessed vast but narrow knowledge on specific climate activities.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…Cities and local governments are described as seedbeds for transformation into climate-proof, low-carbon, and sustainable societies (Viguie and Hallegatte 2012; Lee and Painter 2015). While numerous climate activities are being implemented, fundamental transformation will require integrated approaches across sectoral divisions and actor groups (Moloney and Horne 2015), and holistic ways to plan for and govern urban systems (Wolfram et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Developing transformative capacity through systematic assessments and visualization of urban climate transitions

Glaas

Hjerpe

Storbjörk

et al. 2018

Ambio

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Transforming cities into low-carbon, resilient, and sustainable places will require action encompassing most segments of society. However, local governments struggle to overview and assess all ongoing climate activities in a city, constraining well-informed decision-making and transformative capacity. This paper proposes and tests an assessment framework developed to visualize the implementation of urban climate transition (UCT). Integrating key transition activities and process progression, the framework was applied to three Swedish cities. Climate coordinators and municipal councillors evaluated the visual UCT representations. Results indicate that their understanding of UCT actions and implementation bottlenecks became clearer, making transition more governable. To facilitate UCT, involving external actors and shifting priorities between areas were found to be key. The visual UCT representations improved system awareness and memory, building local transformative capacity. The study recommends systematic assessment and visualization of process progression as a promising method to facilitate UCT governance, but potentially also broader sustainability transitions. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s13280-018-1109-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Developing transformative capacity through systematic assessments and visualization of urban climate transitions

Glaas

Hjerpe

Storbjörk

et al. 2018

Ambio

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“…It is a challenge to capture the alternate approach to understand the relationship between the environment and socio-economic indicators (Chrysoulakis et al, 2014). Each city has its own socio-economic and physical attributes and conditions that should be reflected in a scientific analysis and climate policy formation (Lee & Painter, 2015). Hence, the governing parties, such as local experts, local governments, and policymakers should cooperate with the local communities to understand the challenges and solutions for particular climatic problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As such, the content analysis confirms that little attention has been given on the use of socio-economic indicators towards urban scale. It is unclear as to how socio-economic indicators in local climate are selected because they are newly addressed (Lee & Painter, 2015;Sethi & de Oliveira, 2015), although they were already proposed in earlier studies (Goodchild et al, 1993). Yet, many researchers who have adopted the socio-economic indicators towards climate change have debated the subject in this century (Greer, Ng, & Fisman, 2008;Schlünzen & Bohnenstengel, 2016;Sethi & de Oliveira, 2015;Singh, 2010).…”

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“… For example, reuse, refund, and return approaches to packaging; scrappage schemes to replace cars and vans with electric vehicles; strategies by local councils to become carbon‐neutral and ensure new builds are energy efficient; community green energy schemes (Clarke and Ordonez‐Ponce, ; Lee and Painter, ). …”

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Re‐assembling climate change policy: Materialism, posthumanism, and the policy assemblage

Fox

Alldred

2020

British Journal of Sociology

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National and international policy‐makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change and other environmental degradation for over 30 years. However, it is questionable whether current policies are socially, politically, economically, and scientifically capable of adequately resolving these threats to the planet and living organisms. In this paper we theorize and develop the concept of a “policy assemblage” from within a new materialist ontology, to interrogate critically four policy perspectives on climate change: “liberal environmentalism”; the United Nations policy statements on sustainable development; “green capitalism” (also known as “climate capitalism”) and finally “no‐growth economics.” A materialist analysis of interactions between climate change and policies enables us to establish what each policy can do, what it ignores or omits, and consequently its adequacy to address environmental sustainability in the face of climate change. None, we conclude, is adequate or appropriate to address climate change successfully. We then use this conceptual tool to establish a “posthuman” policy on climate change. Humans, from this perspective, are part of the environment, not separate from or in opposition to it, but possess unique capacities that we suggest are now necessary to address climate change. This ontology supplies the starting point from which to establish sociologically a scientifically, socially, and politically adequate posthuman climate change policy. We offer suggestions for the constituent elements of such a policy.

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Comprehensive local climate policy: The role of urban governance

Cited by 53 publications

References 35 publications

Developing transformative capacity through systematic assessments and visualization of urban climate transitions

Developing transformative capacity through systematic assessments and visualization of urban climate transitions

2017 Special Edition IIUM

Re‐assembling climate change policy: Materialism, posthumanism, and the policy assemblage

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