How Do Local Policy Makers Learn about Climate Change Adaptation Policies? Examining Study Visits as an Instrument of Policy Learning in the European Union

Haupt, Wolfgang

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“…In line with the literature, our results show that city size plays a key role in shaping local climate policy (Araos et al 2016;Haupt et al 2020;Kern et al 2005;Reckien et al 2018;Salvia et al 2021). Big cities and metropolitan areas have more capacity to develop local climate policies than smaller cities (Haupt 2020;Kern 2019;Reckien et al 2015). Out of the 14 biggest German cities (those with more than 500,000 inhabitants), ten can be classified as climate policy leaders (cluster 1) and four as climate adaptation leaders (cluster 2).…”

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Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities

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Climate mitigation and climate adaptation are crucial tasks for urban areas and can involve synergies as well as trade-offs. However, few studies have examined how mitigation and adaptation efforts relate to each other in a large number of differently sized cities, and therefore we know little about whether forerunners in mitigation are also leading in adaptation or if cities tend to focus on just one policy field. This article develops an internationally applicable approach to rank cities on climate policy that incorporates multiple indicators related to (1) local commitments on mitigation and adaptation, (2) urban mitigation and adaptation plans and (3) climate adaptation and mitigation ambitions. We apply this method to rank 104 differently sized German cities and identify six clusters: climate policy leaders, climate adaptation leaders, climate mitigation leaders, climate policy followers, climate policy latecomers and climate policy laggards. The article seeks explanations for particular cities’ positions and shows that coping with climate change in a balanced way on a high level depends on structural factors, in particular city size, the pathways of local climate policies since the 1990s and funding programmes for both climate mitigation and adaptation.

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“…Moreover, the European Union (EU) was the subject of several studies focussing on its leading role in environmental and climate policy (Gupta and Ringius 2001;Oberthür and Roche Kelly 2008). Increasingly, research also regards cities as pioneers or leaders in environmental and climate governance (Kern 2019;Wurzel et al 2019a;Haupt 2021).…”

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From climate policy pioneers to climate policy leaders? The examples of the eastern German cities of Potsdam and Rostock

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Irmisch

2022

Urban Research & Practice

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We illustrate how the two mid-sized post-socialist eastern German cities Potsdam and Rostock have managed to become climate pioneers, despite being located in regions that have been reluctant with regard to climate action. Drawing on municipal documentation and fieldwork interviews, we show how favorable and interrelated conditions concerning a city's socio-demographic, socio-economic, and particularly political situation were more important for progressive climate action than both cities' embeddedness in their respective regions. We also show how the absence of external ambitions and mayoral support hindered Potsdam and Rostock from making the leap from a pioneer to a leader.

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“…However, the research predated implementation of the global sustainable development agenda from 2016 onwards, and the picture today appears rather different, at least in terms of upward linkages, as the C40 (2022) evidence cited above and the case studies presented here reveal. This probably reflects the evolving nature of city networks-especially those like C40 and GRCN which were formed with those specific objectivesto help address the global agendas, the growth of study visits (Perry & Russell 2020;Haupt 2021) and other strategies to learn from elsewhere.…”

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Transformational climate action at the city scale: comparative South–North perspectives

Simon

Bellinson

Smit

2022

Buildings and Cities

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Conceptually grounded, integrated, city-scale and comparative studies remain rare and are based mostly on meta-reviews of the literature or broad surveys. Conversely, debates about the limitations of incremental or transitional change and exhortations towards more ambitious processes of system or transformative changes are rarely grounded in adequate empirical analysis. Accordingly, this paper examines city-scale plans and actions in order to throw light on these issues in a carefully contextualised Global South-North comparison between Cape Town, South Africa, and Greater Manchester, UK. Cape Town has a considerable pedigree of citywide climate policy and action but achieving cross-departmental integration remains a key challenge, along with operationalisation and monitoring. Greater Manchester has abundant climate ambitions to become a leading European green city, but recent innovative policy processes revealed a lack of capacity and in-house expertise. The comparative analysis therefore focuses on capacity constraints hampering fulfilment of progressive city aspirations that engage with global agendas, and on how they use innovative planning and implementation processes and different forms of knowledge to address integrative or cross-cutting issues, as well as on their relative success to date in doing so in the face of different extents of inequality and power asymmetry.

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How Do Local Policy Makers Learn about Climate Change Adaptation Policies? Examining Study Visits as an Instrument of Policy Learning in the European Union

Cited by 19 publications

References 40 publications

Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities

Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities

From climate policy pioneers to climate policy leaders? The examples of the eastern German cities of Potsdam and Rostock

Transformational climate action at the city scale: comparative South–North perspectives

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