Cities, Europeanization and Multi‐level Governance: Governing Climate Change through Transnational Municipal Networks*

Kern, Kristine; Bulkeley, Harriet

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2009.00806.x

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“…Results regarding the mitigation dimension on local actions reveal six factors: the municipality having set ambitious policy goals, municipalities having experienced staff members, the municipality engaging in partnership with local business firms, the municipality having collaborative ties with other municipalities, the municipality having memberships of international climate change issue networks, and the municipality using intergovernmental support schemes issued by higher level governments. Whereas the first three of the factors mentioned can be classified as 'localist', the other three reveal the importance of efforts local government makes that goes beyond the local level (concerning the 'multi-level' and 'issue network' dimensions; which is in line with [18,19,91]). …”

Section: Results Of the Comparative Analysis On Factors Enabling Locamentioning

confidence: 83%

“…Kern and Bulkeley [18] found that membership of international climate change issue networks (like ICLEI or Covenant of Mayors) had a positive impact. Local government staff members become better informed about state-of-the-art developments, and increase adaptive capacity to learn from best practices and adopt them in their very own localities.…”

Section: Cluster Iv: External Issue Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, different research communities came into existence, focusing either on mitigation (e.g., [8,9,11,18,19,21,28]) or on adaptation (e.g., [13][14][15][22][23][24]27,32]). Because of the broad variety of concepts that have been developed a literature review was conducted to systematically cluster concepts from these literatures.…”

Section: Literature Review and Synthesis Of An Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, support by central government (via inter-governmental capacity building schemes) was of great importance in this process [11]. The latter [11,18,19] compliments factors addressed under the so-called 'localist' approach (focusing predominantly on local factors that contribute to local climate policy and related actions). It adds a 'multi-level' dimension in that it acknowledges the interplay of cities in climate actions with higher level governments-e.g., the EU, central government, regional government-but also to lower level in which relevant decision-making takes place-e.g., regarding district level infrastructural or housing projects.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Presenting a Framework to Analyze Local Climate Policy and Action in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

2016

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Academic attention to local climate policy usually focuses on large-sized cities. Given the climate challenges ahead this seems unjustified. Small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) deserve scholarly attention as well. The main question is: What factors influence climate change policy and local climate actions in SMCs? In this article we present an analytical framework to analyze climate change policy and local climate actions of SMCs. The framework addresses different aspects: policy-input, -throughput, -output, -outcome, characteristics of the local environment, local action arenas, influence by higher government levels, and interaction with climate change issue networks.The framework is used to analyze and compare four case studies of SMCs in the Dutch region of Twente (two urban and two rural municipalities, and addresses both adaptation and mitigation). Results show that both 'localist', 'multi-level' and issue network membership factors influence local climate policy action. Governance modes discerned concern mostly 'governing by authority' and 'self-governing'. When reflecting on the role of SMCs in climate action the study revealed the importance of local capacity building schemes issued by provincial government, inter-municipal network collaboration, and the potential for local governments to mobilize and organize citizen action.

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“…International bargaining links subnational policy levels in all countries 37 Andonova and Mitchell 2010;Kern andBulkeley 2009. 38 Schaffer 2011.…”

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All Policies Are Glocal: International Environmental Policy Making with Strategic Subnational Governments

Bechtel

Urpelainen

2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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National governments have intensified their attempts to create international institutions in various policy fields such as the environment, finance and trade. At the same time, many subnational policy makers have begun to duplicate international efforts by setting their own, stricter policies while others remain inactive or enact more lax regulation. This 'glocalization' of policy creates a complex and potentially costly patchwork system of regulations. To shed light on this phenomenon, this article analyzes the interaction between subnational and national governments within a game-theoretic model of international treaty negotiations. The glocalization of regulatory policy can be understood as an attempt by subnational policy makers to strategically constrain or empower national governments in international negotiations. The study finds that the shadow of international treaty formation gives rise to within-country and crosscountry policy balancing dynamics that may explain some of the subnational policy polarization that is currently observable in many countries. The article specifies the conditions under which these dynamics occur, spells out empirically testable hypotheses and identifies possible theoretical extensions.

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Multivariate Analysis of Solar City Economics

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Taminiau

Kim

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Advances in Energy Systems

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Cities, Europeanization and Multi‐level Governance: Governing Climate Change through Transnational Municipal Networks*

Cited by 528 publications

References 32 publications

Presenting a Framework to Analyze Local Climate Policy and Action in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

Presenting a Framework to Analyze Local Climate Policy and Action in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

All Policies Are Glocal: International Environmental Policy Making with Strategic Subnational Governments

Multivariate Analysis of Solar City Economics

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