Governing urban energy transitions and climate change: Actions, relations and local dependencies in Germany

Cheung, Tracy Ting Ting; Oßenbrügge, Jürgen

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101728

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“…For example, there is evidence of public consultation incorporating a diverse array of voices and examples of organisations working together to achieve mutually beneficial goals. Through exploring the roles of actors and their practices within the three types of collaboration, the paper provides insights into the contextual factors that shape actor constellations and relationships in the field of climate change and energy (Cheung & Oßenbrügge, 2020; Rutherford & Jaglin, 2015).…”

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“…Moreover, urban responses to climate change need to be embedded into existing planning processes, which have their own institutional and spatial‐material configurations, and relate to different transformative outcomes. For example, decarbonisation and transformation of urban energy systems are mobilised through both the concerns of climate change and a host of local expectations related to energy supply and use (Cheung & Oßenbrügge, 2020; Rutherford & Jaglin, 2015).…”

Section: Collaboration In Urban Climate Governancementioning

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Rethinking the potential of collaboration for urban climate governance: The case of Hong Kong

Cheung

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2022

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Collaboration is strongly promoted as an effective means for cities to respond to climate change. While collaboration is perceived to offer opportunities to progress climate action in cities, little is known about how collaboration can enable low‐carbon transformation in practice. Furthermore, while collaboration is largely framed as a positive endeavour, there is a need to more carefully explore the challenges and barriers that may arise. This paper explores the aims, processes, and outcomes of collaboration within urban climate governance. Drawing on a policy review and semi‐structured interviews, we present empirical findings from the case study of Hong Kong. This paper identifies three types of collaboration that are structured by regulations, oriented to policy goals, and emerge as everyday practices within the governance of climate change and the energy system. The forms of collaboration challenge the assumptions that collaboration always brings positive outcomes in mobilising action for climate change. While collaboration opens up different modes of governance within cities, the paper highlights significant barriers in terms of the diverse roles of actors, ongoing power imbalances, and shifting governance spaces for intervention. Given the prevailing interest in working together, it is critical to review carefully how collaboration facilitates cities to achieve their climate goals and create momentum for action.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Collaboration In Urban Climate Governancementioning

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Rethinking the potential of collaboration for urban climate governance: The case of Hong Kong

Cheung

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2022

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“…b. While the national-level studies explore more general and conceptual issues-energy transition pathways and strategies (such as solar power agency and initiative design [18,19], climate protection strategy [20]), policy and technical innovations (such as virtual power plants [21], power to gas plant [22]), actors (such as civic engagement [23], anti-decarbonization movement [24], energy market analysis [25]), and impacts (such as energy poverty [26], rebound effect [27]), the city-level studies investigate more locational issues such as urban energy transition pathways [28], urban municipal governance [29], resident mobility behavior [30], the discrepancies between the municipal carbon neutrality ambitions of the investigated cities and their diverse actions either driven or constrained by their climate protection politics [31].…”

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Urban expansion of Energiewende in Germany: a systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study

Yang

2022

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background Despite Germany’s world leadership of Energiewende, there have been mounting challenges, such as the slowdown of German renewable energy growth since 2017, when the Merkel administration dramatically changed the German renewable energy promotion policy from feed-in tariffs to competitive auctions. These challenges pose important research questions about whether and how an emerging urban expansion of Energiewende can serve as a vital solution to counteract the challenges to the energy transition. Answering these research questions provides a unique opportunity to explore the academic and historic foundations of the energy transition and its urban expansion, the emerging events that exemplify urban expansion, and the viable solutions this growing trend of urban expansion might be able to provide to the challenges to the German energy transition. Methods This paper conducted visual and manual bibliometric analyses, examined the results of case studies, and reviewed secondary literature and data on urban expansion of German Energiewende. Results By analyzing the bibliometric and investigative results, this paper identified political, socioeconomic, and technological challenges to Energiewende and a new trend of solar energy expansion in German cities aimed at meeting Germany’s carbon neutrality targets by 2045. The new trend of the urban expansion of the German energy transition manifests itself in the focused research efforts on identifying the vast untapped potential on new building rooftop areas in most populous German cities and/or detached and two-family houses in Germany and the recent booming of building-related solar PV and heating mandates in German cities and states, the expanding solar heating and cooling systems, and the government policy support at various levels in this urban expansion through aggressively strengthening climate and renewable energy targets. Conclusions In search for answers to the recent challenges of Energiewende in Germany, this paper conducted both visual and manual bibliometric analyses and applied desk research and reviews of secondary literature and data. This paper found an emerging trend of the urban expansion of Energiewende, including the awareness of the vast potential and gap of urban solarization and the enhanced urban municipal policies, actors, actions, and accomplishments of exploiting this potential. These findings were based on academic knowledge on the German energy transition and contribute to expanding this academic knowledge. To help more effectively exploit the vast potential in solarizing all German cities, especially the largest ones, this study recommends that further research more closely track the progress of this trend and apply more quantitative tools and approaches in future tracking.

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“… 2022 ). The above processes are based on local futures and path dependencies, which must be integrated into everyday planning approaches in a precise manner (Cheung and Oßenbrügge 2020 ). It should be emphasized that analyzing mitigation and adaptation objectives and interventions with regard to their long-term impacts is not a new phenomenon in the literature (Boyd et al.…”

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Urban sustainability and resilience: What the literature tells us about “lock-ins”?

Buzási

Csizovszky

2022

Ambio

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Inherited system features and challenges that can hinder urban planning initiatives must be taken into consideration before a path towards a sustainable future can be established. By putting the lock-in effect under scrutiny, it is possible to gain valuable insight to emphasize positive lock-ins and to prevent maladaptation and unsustainable solutions. This paper aims to review the current trends of urban studies regarding sustainability, resilience, and the lock-in effect, focusing on both hot topics and mutual integration by following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR protocol) and analyzing the top-cited articles on these topics from 2015 to 2021 in the Web of Science database. Based on the revised literature, the potential lock-ins of climate-friendly and sustainable urban development are not adequately discussed. Moreover, while urban sustainability and resilience are often treated as overlapping areas, there is a lack of publications that carefully examine their interlinked long-term perspectives for any hindering effects.

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Governing urban energy transitions and climate change: Actions, relations and local dependencies in Germany

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Rethinking the potential of collaboration for urban climate governance: The case of Hong Kong

Rethinking the potential of collaboration for urban climate governance: The case of Hong Kong

Urban expansion of Energiewende in Germany: a systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study

Urban sustainability and resilience: What the literature tells us about “lock-ins”?

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