Special section: advancing the role of cities in climate governance – promise, limits, politics

Heijden, Jeroen van der; Patterson, James; Juhola, Sirkku; Wolfram, Marc

doi:10.1080/09640568.2018.1513832

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“…Cities are, through their various operations, contributing heavily to increased climate change and the current lock-in to carbon-dependency. Cities are also highly vulnerable to the consequences of a changing climate, signaling the urgency of urban responses to climate change and intensified research endeavors targeting urban practices [9][10][11]. Urban planning becomes a key arena for managing both the causes and effects of climate change in cities [12][13][14].…”

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“Take It or Leave It”: From Collaborative to Regulative Developer Dialogues in Six Swedish Municipalities Aiming to Climate-Proof Urban Planning

2019

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Enhancing legitimacy and effectiveness of climate policy requires improved interactions between and within administrative levels, the latter including horizontal public–private coordination. In the heavily decentralized Swedish urban planning process, developer dialogues are used to enhance collaboration and thereby increase the climate-proofing of new housing districts. In practice, municipalities struggle with identifying what types of collaborative arrangements best support the realization of climate goals, in light of strong property developer interests and bargaining. Based on qualitative interviews with coordinating planners, this paper illustrates lessons from repeated collaborative practices in six Swedish municipalities. We analytically characterize a shift between first- and second-generation developer dialogues. In first-generation dialogues, coordinators attempted to ensure jointly agreed upon principles, priorities and commitments, which instead resulted in troublesome negotiations. In second-generation dialogues, coordinators used mixed approaches to ensure more competitive and climate-proof urban development by mechanisms of indirect command and control. Principles of collaborative interaction were abandoned to regain control over urban planning. This documented shift contrasts heavily with theoretical assumptions from the climate governance literature, where enhanced collaboration assumedly increase effectiveness of climate policy implementation. Acknowledging the practical implications of using developer dialogues to climate-proof urban planning in different settings is critical for improved policy implementation.

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“Take It or Leave It”: From Collaborative to Regulative Developer Dialogues in Six Swedish Municipalities Aiming to Climate-Proof Urban Planning

2019

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“…The strict focus on the actor composition of TMN-led decision-making procedures follows the tradition found in the older European literature on TMNs. This limits us from discussing questions of efficiency and output legitimacy for which the existing literature is often criticised (van der Heijden et al., 2019). However, it enables discussions of differences between old TMNs as portrayed in the literature and the features we identify in our study of 100RC.…”

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The hybrid governance of environmental transnational municipal networks: Lessons from 100 Resilient Cities

Nielsen

Papin

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Transnational Municipal Networks (TMNs) are increasing in size, scope and number on the global arena. They reflect a tendency for city governments to coordinate environmental action through networked forms of governance. In this article, we argue that a new generation of TMNs has entered the global scene to help cities steer their efforts to handle environmental issues. In contrast to the characteristics of older TMNs as public, inclusive, and self-governed, new-generation TMNs are influenced by private actors, they are exclusive, and employ enforcement mechanisms to secure the fulfilment of network goals. To underline the diversity of TMNs and thus better understand urban networked governance, we present a case study of the 100 Resilient Cities initiative covering its conduct in 2013–2019. Looking at its actor composition and membership terms, we identify a hybrid nature different from the one described in earlier literature on European TMNs primarily. This subscription to a hybrid form of governance calls for a larger discussion on the implications of this shift in governance type and on the extent to which hybridisation implies a shift of power from the public to the private sphere.

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“…City governments can often find it hard to wrestle away from existing arrangements and adopt new planning and bureaucratic processes aimed at addressing new issues like climate change (Aylett, 2013), even when provided "external" incentives from transnational actors or the global climate regime (Anguelovski and Carmin, 2011;Bellinson and Chu, 2019;Chu, 2018;Gordon, 2018). This has led scholars to investigate the "internal", "innate", "endogenous", or local political dynamics and configurations of cities, and how they determine climate action (Aylett, 2013;Bellinson and Chu, 2019;Hodson et al, 2017;McGuirk et al, 2016;Ryan, 2015;van der Heijden et al, 2019), alongside other scholarship aimed at understanding the role of domestic and endogenous institutions in managing global environmental and climate change (Andonova et al, 2017;Fragkias and Boone, 2016). Such scholarship has emphasized the administrative, legal, policy, financial, and bureaucratic practices that are "entrenched" in cities, and remain influential in determining actions even when addressing novel objectives such as climate mitigation and adaptation (Anguelovski and Carmin, 2011;Chu, 2018;Ryan, 2015).…”

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Superimposition: How Indian city bureaucracies are responding to climate change

Bhardwaj

Khosla

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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City governments are facing complex challenges due to climate change, but those in the global South often have limited capacities and governance arrangements to develop and execute a response. Cities must also manage other existing priorities such as housing, water and waste management, which have established bureaucratic practices and incentives. How are such cities with limited climate governance capacity and with existing non-climate priorities developing a climate response? From interviews and participant observation in two Indian cities that are pioneering climate action, we find that actors are ‘superimposing’ climate objectives onto existing bureaucratic practices. Building on analysis of ongoing projects in the two cities, we theorize superimposition as an approach taken by bureaucracies that have the intention of responding to climate change but have limited control over their planning practices and mandates, high levels of institutional inertia to change existing practices, and multiple other objectives related to development that dominate agendas. As superimposition does not involve the modification of existing bureaucratic practices or incentives, the types of climate actions which emerge from this approach reflect the features, scope and limitations of existing political arrangements. We highlight five such features of how Indian city bureaucracies respond to climate change: (1) the primacy of central and state ‘schemes’, (2) the prioritization of ‘development’ as an objective, and the imperative to implement (3) ‘quick win’, (4) ‘visible’ and (5) ‘bankable’ projects. Superimposition has led to creative and politically tenable climate projects that meet both climate objectives and those of existing schemes on housing, water and waste. But these projects are also limited by existing governance arrangements with tradeoffs for long-term planning, urban justice and public ownership of infrastructure.

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Special section: advancing the role of cities in climate governance – promise, limits, politics

Cited by 52 publications

References 37 publications

“Take It or Leave It”: From Collaborative to Regulative Developer Dialogues in Six Swedish Municipalities Aiming to Climate-Proof Urban Planning

“Take It or Leave It”: From Collaborative to Regulative Developer Dialogues in Six Swedish Municipalities Aiming to Climate-Proof Urban Planning

The hybrid governance of environmental transnational municipal networks: Lessons from 100 Resilient Cities

Superimposition: How Indian city bureaucracies are responding to climate change

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