City-to-city learning within climate city networks: definition, significance, and challenges from a global perspective

Haupt, Wolfgang; Chelleri, Lorenzo; Herk, Sebastiaan van; Zevenbergen, Chris

doi:10.1080/19463138.2019.1691007

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“…Practitioners mentioned learning from both stakeholder engagement and external collaborations. The benefits of networks such as 100RC for cross-departmental or cross-stakeholder learning (shared learning) and city-to-city learning were not emphasised as much in the literature we reviewed but recent studies have recognised their importance (Bellinson and Chu, 2019; Haupt et al, 2019; Ilgen et al, 2019; Woodruff et al, 2018). Based on what they learned, several cities we interviewed adjusted their resilience definitions, shifted departmental placements and broadened objectives.…”

Section: Findings: Organisational Structures For Urban Resilience: Frmentioning

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Governing urban resilience: Organisational structures and coordination strategies in 20 North American city governments

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Meerow²,

Miller

2020

Urban Studies

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This paper describes how urban resilience governance is structured and coordinated in 20 North American cities (19 US and one Canadian) based on interviews with city officials. This co-produced research evolved out of conversations with city officials in Portland, Oregon, who were interested to learn how other cities were organising resilience work. Interviews focused on emerging definitions, organisational structures, internal and external coordination efforts, and practitioners’ insights. The paper includes a descriptive summary of how cities are structuring and coordinating resilience efforts. Additionally, we discuss how current trends in resilience coordination can inform future directions for urban resilience scholarship. We compare what practitioners view as key success factors against six commonly theorised characteristics for effective resilience governance. Overall, we find considerable overlap in lessons from theory and practice, including the benefits of a systems approach, the need for a clear definition of resilience, strong leadership, and stakeholder engagement. Practitioners use resilience to diagnose the overall health of their cities. Additionally, practice tends to emphasise limitations such as political turnover, trade-offs between centralised and dispersed organisation, and the need to carefully diagnose and scope resilience work, whereas the academic literature calls for multi-level and cross-scale governance and feedbacks and more transformative action. Given these insights, we highlight opportunities for new resilience scholarship, including analysing the benefits of the diagnostic phase of resilience planning, evaluating resilience goals to determine the best departmental fit, and understanding local barriers and trade-offs to adopting a broad systems approach.

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Section: Findings: Organisational Structures For Urban Resilience: Frmentioning

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Governing urban resilience: Organisational structures and coordination strategies in 20 North American city governments

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Meerow²,

Miller

2020

Urban Studies

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“…First, C2Cs might reinforce inequalities between (Mocca 2018;Geldin 2019) and within cities (Fastenrath et al 2019). They may support an elitecentric governance (Haupt et al 2020) while requiring the most vulnerable and marginalised urban residents to bear a disproportionate share of the burden for sustainability. This in turn may lead to 'lock-ins' (e.g.…”

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“…And yet few nation-states have shown a necessary commitment to sustainability (Sneddon et al 2006;Quental et al 2011;Smeds and Acuto 2018; Le Nguyen Long and Krause 2020) generating a policy vacuum, which various political actors have tried to fill with a patchwork of sustainable development instruments. Cities are becoming increasingly prominent actors in this policy space (Bulkeley 2010;Krause 2012;Watts 2017;Johnson 2018;Haupt et al 2020). Some of these cities have attempted to tackle sustainability challenges by leveraging peer-to-peer cooperation with cities across borders.…”

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Can city-to-city cooperation facilitate sustainable development governance in the Global South? Lessons gleaned from seven North-South partnerships in Latin America

Mayer

Long

2020

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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The search for mechanisms that can bolster sustainable development governance is underway. Bilateral city-to-city partnerships (C2C) have been put forward as platform through which cities can strengthen sustainable development in urban landscapes. Here, we critically examine claims about the capacity of these international cooperative arrangements, originally designed and deployed as development aid delivery mechanisms, to promote sustainable development. Our systematic examination of the extant literature on bilateral North-South C2C in Latin America fails to provide sufficient evidence that C2C can deliver on its promise to promote robust governance, both generally and in the specific context of sustainable development. Instead, it seems that C2C is more likely to support than challenge entrenched practices which can weaken sustainable development governance. Identifying these tendencies is a first step in formulating strategies that may enhance C2Cs and other transnational partnerships aimed at improving urban sustainable development in the Global South.

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“…Group learning is influenced by the characteristics of the participants (their ability and motivation to participate and to learn), the composition of the partnership (including the knowledge of the single partners as well as mutual trust), and the interaction processes (in quality and quantity) within the project (Vinke-de Kruijf & Pahl-Wostl, 2016). Transnational learning has been investigated recently in the context of city-to-city learning, specifically in the context of city-to-city learning on climate change (Bellinson & Chu, 2019;Haupt, Chelleri, van Herk, & Zevenbergen, 2020). In a recent article investigating transnational climate city networks, Haupt et al (2020) find that there are great limitations to transnational learning, especially when learning from best practices and front-runner cities.…”

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Can Transnational Cooperation Support Municipalities to Address Challenges of Youth Migration?

Gruber

2021

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In the cooperation project ‘YOUMIG,’ funded by the INTERREG Danube transnational programme, challenges of youth migration were discussed in a transnational consortium consisting of project partners from different countries from Central and Eastern Europe experiencing difficulties such as a declining population and outmigration, as well as immigration of young people, which necessitated the provision of an integration infrastructure. Project outcomes included strategies as well as pilot activities performed by local-level authorities. The following article will consider outcomes as well as experiences from stakeholders involved in the project and investigate individual and organizational learning processes throughout the project. It will elaborate on the question of the extent to which transnational cooperation can potentially facilitate sustainable institutional changes and transformation. The results confirm the potential of transnational cooperation towards triggering learning and institutional change. Nevertheless, they underline that in the context of the project, the learning processes that could be achieved were predominantly of an individual nature and that the tangible outcomes could not lead to sustainable institutional changes.

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City-to-city learning within climate city networks: definition, significance, and challenges from a global perspective

Cited by 43 publications

References 45 publications

Governing urban resilience: Organisational structures and coordination strategies in 20 North American city governments

Governing urban resilience: Organisational structures and coordination strategies in 20 North American city governments

Can city-to-city cooperation facilitate sustainable development governance in the Global South? Lessons gleaned from seven North-South partnerships in Latin America

Can Transnational Cooperation Support Municipalities to Address Challenges of Youth Migration?

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