Local Government and the Governing of Climate Change in Germany and the UK

Bulkeley, Harriet; Kern, Kristine

doi:10.1080/00420980600936491

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“…Stronger and coherent national and where applicable regional strategies are required. Our analysis confirms that a "multi scalar approach to provisioning of plans and strategies" (Bulkeley and Kern, 2006;Leck and Simon, 2013) from European, national to regional level is the most effective in ensuring that cities will plan for mitigation and adaptation. Cities can provide and deliver strategies without the wider support and guidance but they need to have the capacity, resource and political will to do so.…”

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“…In turn, the example of Italy shows the contrary: a national framework might not be required to stimulate climate change strategy development. Overlaps of national, regional and city climate policies can exist as central government policies influence the selection of mitigation and adaptation measures within cities (Biesbroek et al, 2009;Bulkeley and Kern, 2006). However, we also provided evidence that the lack of national leadership can lead to a more active membership in climate change networks.…”

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

Heidrich

Reckien

Olazabal

et al. 2016

Journal of Environmental Management

145

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies ABSTRACTGlobally, efforts are underway to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to climate change impacts at the local level. However, there is a poor understanding of the relationship between city strategies on climate change mitigation and adaptation and the relevant policies at national and European level. This paper describes a comparative study and evaluation of cross-national policy.It reports the findings of studying the climate change strategies or plans from 200 European cities from Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. The study highlights the shared responsibility of global, European, national, regional and city policies. An interpretation and illustration of the influences from international and national networks and policy makers in stimulating the development of local strategies and actions is proposed. It was found that there is no archetypical way of planning for climate change, and multiple interests and motivations are inevitable. Our research warrants the need for a multi-scalar approach to climate policy in the future, mainly ensuring sufficient capacity and resource to enable local authorities to plan and respond to their specific climate change agenda for maximising the management potentials for translating environmental challenges into opportunities

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Section: Results Of the National Climate Policies And Local Climate Cmentioning

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

Heidrich

Reckien

Olazabal

et al. 2016

Journal of Environmental Management

145

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“…Well-known examples related to sustainability are voluntary commitments of economic branches, but also New Public Management strategies of energy provision (see Bulkeley & Kern, 2006) and, very recently, user involvement in corporate innovation processes. In general, cooperative instruments try to fill the effectiveness gap of regulation by initiating voluntary, yet binding, strategies for economic or other civil society actors.…”

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Conceptualizing sustainable consumption: toward an integrative framework

Giulio

Fischer

Schäfer

et al. 2014

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Consumption and sustainability are complex issues-they cannot be reduced to the choice of consumer goods or to "green consumption." Doing so would neglect the multifaceted embeddedness of consumer acts and the multidimensionality of sustainability. To understand patterns of consumption and move them toward sustainability means dealing with this double complexity. A coherent reference framework is therefore needed, to enable locating and correlating research questions, theories, and findings. Such a framework should provide a basis for interdisciplinary understanding, mutual acknowledgment, and collaborative knowledge creation. Therefore, it needs to be the result of an integrative approach; otherwise it would not allow a wide variety of disciplines to work with it. This article presents such a framework, developed in the course of an interdisciplinary process in a research program. In this process, the researchers of the focal topic asked four questions: 1) How can consumption be conceptualized? 2) How can consumption and sustainability be related? 3) How can sustainable consumption be assessed? and 4) How can changes to individual consumption be motivated? The article condenses the researchers' overall answers to these questions into four complementary core statements capturing the key elements of the reference framework and concludes by sketching the framework's benefits for future research.

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“…Carattini et al, 2015;Cole, 2015). Given the lack of progress in global climate change negotiations, an increasing number of scholars have proposed that a global policy is not the only strategy needed but that actions are required at multiple, smaller scales to start the process of climate change mitigation (Bulkeley and Betsill, 2005;Bulkeley and Kern, 2006;Ostrom, 2012). Accordingly, several studies have argued that community-based energy (CBE) organizations facilitate collective action for climate change mitigation by fostering individual behavioral change toward more sustainable energy practices (Heiskanen et al, 2010;Middlemiss, 2011Middlemiss, , 2008Seyfang, 2010).…”

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Exploring the links between community-based governance and sustainable energy use: Quantitative evidence from Flanders

Bauwens

Eyre

2017

Ecological Economics

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Abstract:Community-based energy organizations have been said to influence their members' energy-related behavior by activating social norms and by providing trustworthy information about sustainable energy investments and behaviors. However, little is known yet about members' actual energy use and how it differs from that of individuals who do not participate in such projects. In particular, selection effects are likely to arise, i.e. community-based energy projects may attract people that are different from the underlying population in terms of energy use. This article empirically addresses the question of the selection into community-based energy projects in terms of energy use, focusing on the case of renewable energy cooperatives. Based on quantitative data from an original survey conducted with one renewable energy cooperative in Flanders and using probit regression analyses, it contrasts a sample of cooperative members with an appropriate comparison group in terms of electricity usage. The results show that electricity consumption is positively related with cooperative membership, suggesting that high use consumers have greater incentives to join a communitybased organization which provides assistance and advice on the adoption of green technologies and energy efficiency measures. These findings contribute to an understanding of the relationship between community-based governance and sustainable energy practices.

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Local Government and the Governing of Climate Change in Germany and the UK

Cited by 539 publications

References 34 publications

National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

Conceptualizing sustainable consumption: toward an integrative framework

Exploring the links between community-based governance and sustainable energy use: Quantitative evidence from Flanders

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