2011
DOI: 10.1177/1070496511415644
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The Surprising Role of Local Governments in International Environmental Cooperation

Abstract: This study shows that some Japanese local governments, at both the prefecture and city levels, have engaged in international cooperation with local governments in developing countries in Asia to improve environmental management and explains their motivations to do so even if international cooperation is not usually considered part of local governments' mandate, and despite fiscal constraints. Forms of cooperation include training officials from developing countries in Japan, dispatch of Japanese local governme… Show more

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“…A significant number of scholars investigated a substantial amount of this occurring in Japanese local activities, although their approaches were largely descriptive. These scholars presented some interesting findings that Japanese pioneering local governments came to understand themselves as direct participants in global policy strategies while most local governments had primarily implemented national level development assistant projects (Banba1986; Yabuno 1995;Yoshida 2001;Jain 2005;Nakamura, Elder and Mori 2011). 1 Their research focus lies on the dichotomous understanding of autonomist and state-centric policy solutions on the part of subnational participation.…”
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“…A significant number of scholars investigated a substantial amount of this occurring in Japanese local activities, although their approaches were largely descriptive. These scholars presented some interesting findings that Japanese pioneering local governments came to understand themselves as direct participants in global policy strategies while most local governments had primarily implemented national level development assistant projects (Banba1986; Yabuno 1995;Yoshida 2001;Jain 2005;Nakamura, Elder and Mori 2011). 1 Their research focus lies on the dichotomous understanding of autonomist and state-centric policy solutions on the part of subnational participation.…”
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“…Nesse caso, a variável explicativa para a cooperação é o conhecimento e as instituições são os veículos para a sua difusão (HASS, 1983). No caso das redes de cidades, elas cumpririam esse papel de difusora de valores e entendimentos a respeito da mudança climática, que muda o resultado do regime e da própria cooperação (GRANBERG & ELANDER, 2007;SCHREURS, 2008;NAKAMURA, 2011 A teoria de regimes internacionais apresentada por Keohane (1984) argumenta que os mesmos facilitam a obtenção de acordos internacionais, já que criam regras e normas, entre elas os procedimentos de negociação. Isto é, os regimes já definem as arenas e os atores envolvidos, o que reduz os custos de transação para a obtenção dos acordos e garante um mínimo de informação acerca do processo negociador.…”
Section: Regimes Internacionais E Os Novos Atores Estatais Subnacionaisunclassified
“…Para os autores, a ascensão desses atores impôs um desafio conceitual importante à maneira como a governança global vêm sendo teorizada. Há evidências teóricas de que as cidades já são relevantes para a mitigação climática, através de sua participação nas redes transnacionais (SCHREURS, 2008), na troca de experiências e na formulação das políticas públicas sobre o tema NAKAMURA, 2011). Outros estudos destacam as cidades como protagonistas do processo multilateral de negociação, em função de seu papel na promoção das políticas nacionais (GRANBERG & ELANDER, 2007) ou na criação de penalidades para o não cumprimento das medidas sugeridas (noncompliance).…”
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