Colleagues, Competitors, Creators: City Governance Among Peers and Its Implications for Addressing Climate Change.

climate change;cities and urban regions;mitigation and adaptation;policy entrepreneurs;diffusion;policy innovation and experimentation;Social Sciences (General);Social Sciences;Natural Resources and Environment

Kalafatis, ScottRood, Richard B ;

University of Michigan

关键词: climate change;    cities and urban regions;    mitigation and adaptation;    policy entrepreneurs;    diffusion;    policy innovation and experimentation;    Social Sciences (General);    Social Sciences;    Natural Resources and Environment;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

Since the 1990s, cities have emerged as the vanguard in the cultivation of policy responses to climate change. Many cities throughout the world have offered supportive niches for the development and testing of efforts to address climate change mitigation and adaptation while international efforts failed to provide clear and comprehensive leadership. However, this focus on cities as niches for exceptional efforts in policy innovation risks limiting the discussion about urban climate change policy to cities with exemplary resources, connections, and profiles. With the tide of international negotiations turning towards real mitigation commitments after the 2015 Paris Agreement and the need for adaptation becoming more evident each year, the pursuit of policies to address climate change in all cities will almost inevitably move from the exception to the consensus in the years ahead. What forces will shape this transition and what will it mean for those interested in climate change policy? To help answer these questions, this dissertation sheds light on how local governments influence one another and what the implications of that influence are for the emergence of climate change policies in cities. Over the course of three papers, the dissertation makes the case that not only can the influence that local governments have on one another shape whether or not climate change interventions emerge in cities, but that these intercity relationships represent significant sources of latent capacity for the rapid scaling up of the development and expansion of these interventions. This dissertation argues that cities’ impetus to ;;keep up” with their peers leads to patterns of policy adoption of climate change interventions that are non-linear – slow to emerge, but potentially quick to proliferate across contexts once they are established. Understanding the influence of local governments on one another’s actions can offer a critical link between analyzing local processes driving local action and understanding the impact that such activities can ultimately have at larger geographic scales.