2023
DOI: 10.14512/rur.1666
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Potentials of Climate Emergency Declarations for degrowth transformations. The ambivalent stance of German municipalities in conflicts over a post-fossil future

Anton Brokow-Loga,
Timmo Krüger

Abstract: This paper addresses the scope for action by municipalities in a climate emergency and places it in the framework of ecomodern (urban) policy. We analyse the way in which two German ‘climate emergency municipalities’ translate conflicts of post-fossil transformation into concrete political and planning strategies. Although more than 2,200 authorities around the world have already declared a climate emergency, research on the impact of these resolutions on the political orientation of municipalities is very lim… Show more

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“…As has been argued more comprehensively elsewhere (Brokow-Loga & Eckardt, 2020;Brokow-Loga & Krüger, 2023), this view of the individual sectors and thematic areas of planning and municipal policy is insufficient to address the totality of the transformation. Rather, a comprehensive view of the ascribed roles and power relations in the local context is needed to examine the heterogeneous motivations, drivers, and hurdles for municipal degrowth in shrinking regions.…”
Section: Local Actors and Their Degrowth-related Agendamentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…As has been argued more comprehensively elsewhere (Brokow-Loga & Eckardt, 2020;Brokow-Loga & Krüger, 2023), this view of the individual sectors and thematic areas of planning and municipal policy is insufficient to address the totality of the transformation. Rather, a comprehensive view of the ascribed roles and power relations in the local context is needed to examine the heterogeneous motivations, drivers, and hurdles for municipal degrowth in shrinking regions.…”
Section: Local Actors and Their Degrowth-related Agendamentioning
confidence: 98%
“…To this end, the Municipal Degrowth Network and the Postgrowth Cities Coalition were founded in 2021 and 2023, respectively (Postgrowth Cities Coalition, n.d.). Previous operationalizations either focus on the differentiation of municipal sectors such as housing and transport (Khmara & Kronenberg, 2022), the demystification of vanguard cities (Krähmer, 2022), or the role of conflicting interpretations of nature (Brokow-Loga & Krüger, 2023). Until now, much of the research on urban degrowth bypasses the shrinking periphery, with Khmara and Kronenberg's (2023) comparative analysis as an exception.…”
Section: Urban Shrinkage and Degrowthmentioning
confidence: 99%