2018
DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12587
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Networking Cities after Paris: Weighing the Ambition of Urban Climate Change Experimentation

Abstract: Over the past few decades, cities have repeatedly demonstrated high levels of ambition with regard to climate action. Global environmental governance has been marked by a proliferation of policy actions taken by local governments around the world to demonstrate their potential to advance climate change mitigation and adaptation. Leading ‘by example’ and demonstrating the extent of action that it is possible to deliver, cities have aspired to raise the ambition of national and international climate governance a… Show more

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“…An increasing number of contributors highlight the importance of co-creating knowledge and cooperation between actors from public and private sectors, community and academia to initiate transformative change in urban contexts [21,30,31]. However, we agree with Smeds and Acuto [32], who point out that cities cannot 'save the planet' alone. Our work with Resilient Melbourne shows how important multi-level governance is, as the state government level is often mentioned as a critical actor in supporting actions and driving change in urban planning.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 85%
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“…An increasing number of contributors highlight the importance of co-creating knowledge and cooperation between actors from public and private sectors, community and academia to initiate transformative change in urban contexts [21,30,31]. However, we agree with Smeds and Acuto [32], who point out that cities cannot 'save the planet' alone. Our work with Resilient Melbourne shows how important multi-level governance is, as the state government level is often mentioned as a critical actor in supporting actions and driving change in urban planning.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 85%
“…Our work with Resilient Melbourne shows how important multi-level governance is, as the state government level is often mentioned as a critical actor in supporting actions and driving change in urban planning. Therefore, new research lenses are needed to better understand how governance-and socio-technical experiments are interconnected between local and higher policy levels, thus how the 'vertical scaling up' of urban governance experiments work [32].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Similarly, Smeds and Acuto (2018, p. 551) argue that city networks are crucial to urban climate action because these networks 'have facilitated experimentation and raised the level of ambition among cities learning from and competing with each other with regard to the deployment of lowcarbon technologies and policies'. In the context of urban climate governance, sociotechnical experiments and governance experiments are identified as two major conceptual strands of experimentation (Smeds and Acuto 2018). While the strand of sociotechnical experiments aims to test new material interventions within urban sociotechnical systems, the strand of governance experiments focuses on developing new approaches for governing these systems (Bulkeley and Broto 2013;Sengers et al 2019;Bos and Brown 2012).…”
Section: Networked City Experimentationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A recent study by Heikkinen et al (2019), which evaluates anticipated changes in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies of C40 cities, also questions the role that city networks can play in the implementation of climate experiments. While city networks are gaining momentum and influence, this lack of research on the more generalised role of city networks in experimentation constitutes a critical gap in the literature (Smeds and Acuto 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…for councils to do. At the same time, despite withdrawal of resources from local government and the governance role played by other bodies, academic writing continues to explore opportunities for councils to exercise progressive political agency (Williams et al, 2014) whether in resiliently resisting or mediating austerity or in the growing interest in municipal in-sourcing and green-friendly initiatives (Lowndes and Gardner, 2016;Smeds and Acuto, 2018). These developments are important.…”
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