Sustainability · Strategy · Space: exploring influences on governing for urban sustainability in municipalities

Fenton, Paul

doi:10.3384/diss.diva-129544

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“…The following sections provide examples of key themes emerging from the results and are framed with reference to a model conditioned by five factors (Fenton, 2016a) suggesting the ability of municipal or regional administrations to address challenges such as climate change and sustainable transport.…”

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“…The choice of governing approach is thus strategically significant, reflecting and influencing the ways in which actors can understand their situation, potential alternative approaches and mobilize their organizations (and other stakeholders) towards collaborative action (Howlett & Ramesh, 2016). Fenton (2016a) claims an actor's ability to translate these values into action is mediated by five factors -capacity, mandate, resources, scope and will -that condition the relative size of an actor's 'strategy space'.…”

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“…The term has multiple connotations and institutional and social characteristics (Evans et al, 2005) that are influenced by competencies and capabilities (Howlett & Ramesh, 2016). The availability of resources plays an important role in determining the capacity of actors ( Jänicke & Weidner, 1995), yet so does their level of commitment or will (Evans et al, 2005), their mandate and relationship with other levels of government (Lo, 2014), and the ways in which they define the scope of their processes (Fenton, 2016a).…”

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Projects, participation and planning across boundaries in Göttingen

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Paschek

2018

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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Across Europe, local and regional authorities with limited statutory resources face a diverse range of challenges. A major concern is the need to address complex, trans-boundary issues such as climate change and the pursuit of sustainable development. Cooperation over administrative boundaries may be essential to ensure a transition towards local and regional transportation systems that have reduced climate impacts and support broader sustainability objectives. This paper fills a gap in the literature by illustrating how local and regional authorities use project funding to support initiatives to mitigate climate change, with a particular focus on the role of mobility and transport. Transport accounts for around 25% of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU)-almost 73% is caused by road transport, which is also the main cause of air pollution in urban areas (EU, 2017). ABSTRACT this paper explores efforts to coordinate strategies promoting sustainable development-with specific focus on mobility and transport in climate change mitigation-across administrative boundaries in the city and county of göttingen, germany. the paper questions the possibility to develop and align strategic objectives and implementation across administrative boundaries when relying on short-term project funds. the experiences of key stakeholders in göttingen are presented, with reference to empirical data from a document and interview study. Results indicate that reliance on short-term, project-based funding from external sources offers both opportunities and challenges for locally and regionally integrated strategy formulation and implementation. Five factors shaping the strategy space of actors are used to frame the analysis, with findings suggesting the need for further research on how local authorities overcome capacity and resource limitations, particularly with respect to complex challenges such as climate change.

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2018

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“…both financial and knowledgebased), scope (i.e. organizational contexts) and mandate (Fenton, 2016).…”

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Municipalities as intermediaries for the design and local implementation of climate visions

Gustafsson

Mignon

2019

European Planning Studies

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The transition to a sustainable society requires the development of visions paving the way for socio-technical changes. In recent years, the literature on sustainable transitions and urban planning has highlighted the intermediation role of municipalities to implement international and national goals and visions at a local level. Yet, empirical research studying municipalities from the lens of the intermediation theory are sparse. This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of what strategies municipalities use when intermediating between and within different scales of governance (i.e. local, national and international), and what factors influence the choice of strategies. Through semi-structured interviews and document studies, three Swedish municipalities are studied. Results show that these municipalities translate the visions through local experiments, task delegation and coalitions. Additionally, the analysis indicates that the local circumstances, rather than the relations between the local level and the higher levels of governance or the guidance of national policies, influence the choice of intermediation strategy. Particularly, whether the management approach is centralized or decentralized, result-or process-oriented, participative or exclusive, is determinant. Results also indicate that municipalities perform both top-down and bottom-up intermediation, i.e. closing the loop from the local to the national and/or international levels. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Sustainability · Strategy · Space: exploring influences on governing for urban sustainability in municipalities

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Projects, participation and planning across boundaries in Göttingen

Projects, participation and planning across boundaries in Göttingen

Municipalities as intermediaries for the design and local implementation of climate visions

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