The Rabbit and the Tortoise. Climate Change Policy Development on the Local Level in Norway and Poland

Klausen, Jan Erling; Szmigiel-Rawska, Katarzyna

doi:10.24193/tras.52e.3

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“…The remaining local governments have implemented climate change policy measures mainly as a consequence of processes of diffusing policy innovation in Europe. In line with diffusion pattern theory, it was mostly large, affluent cities that risked introducing a climate change policy (Klausen and Szmigiel-Rawska 2017).…”

Section: Climate Change Policymentioning

confidence: 77%

A modern guide to national urban policies in Europe

Tedesco

2022

Urban Research & Practice

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Modern Guides offer a carefully curated review of a selected topic, edited or authored by a leading scholar in the field. They survey the significant trends and issues of contemporary research for both advanced students and academic researchers.The books provide an invaluable appraisal and stimulating guide to the current research landscape, offering state-of-the-art discussions and selective overviews covering the critical matters of interest alongside recent developments. Combining incisive insight with a rigorous and thoughtful perspective on the essential issues, the books are designed to offer an inspiring introduction and unique guide to the diversity of modern debates.Elgar Modern Guides will become an essential go-to companion for researchers and graduate students but will also prove stimulating for a wider academic audience interested in the subject matter. They will be invaluable to anyone who wants to understand as well as simply learn.

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Section: Climate Change Policymentioning

confidence: 77%

A modern guide to national urban policies in Europe

Tedesco

2022

Urban Research & Practice

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“…However, many studies on innovations in general and climate policy in particular focus on either the national or regional levels (Bauer & Steurer, 2014; Jordan et al, 2003; Massey et al, 2014). The few studies on innovations in local climate policy are conceptualized either as medium‐ n or large‐ n comparisons (e.g., Klausen & Szmigiel‐Rawska, 2017), or they are dedicated to a detailed description of individual cases (e.g., Rave & Albrecht‐Saveedra, 2016). In contrast, we address the adoption of innovations in four German cities.…”

Section: State Of Research On Climate Innovationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trans‐local action and local climate policy. Configurations of success for climate innovations in the European multilevel system

Corcaci

Kemmerzell

2023

Review of Policy Research

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Local climate policy in Germany is embedded in a complex and dense multilevel system. While higher levels of governance confront cities with legal frameworks and regulations, they are not constrained to mere implementation of requirements from the national or supranational levels. Cities can influence and make strategic use of opportunities stemming from the multilevel structure to introduce innovative climate policy measures as best practices. Within a multilevel structure, they can engage in trans‐local action and become actors in various processes of upscaling. In this paper, we analyze the configurations of success for local climate innovations. We focus on the impact of cities' trans‐local and strategic activities within the European multilevel system in conjunction with city‐specific context conditions. The research is based on a concept‐structural framework that combines trans‐local activities and internal context conditions in a way that accounts for interactions between the two spheres. A comparison of the German cities of Darmstadt, Hagen, Offenbach, and Oldenburg indicates that configurations of strategic action in the multilevel system and beneficial local conditions explain the adoption of climate innovations. Therefore, such trans‐local action should not be understood as a sufficient condition of innovative climate policy measures, but as an enabling factor embedded in local contexts.

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“…The lack of personnel resources and specialist expertise is a key barrier to the implementation of innovative policy measures, specifically in smaller cities [53]. A facilitated exchange among peer countries or cities and the provision of processed expert information through learning programmes may reduce costs and favour the uptake of measures that proved to be successful in similar settings.…”

Section: Network and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diffusing Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in the EU

Werland

2020

Sustainability

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This paper explores how the European Commission promotes the concept of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) among European cities. Despite the strong uptake of the SUMP concept, mobility-related problems persist in European municipalities. Linking theoretical approaches to understand the diffusion of policies with empirical findings from working with cities in the SUMP context, this article explores channels of policy diffusion and investigates shortcomings related to the respective approaches. Studies on the diffusion, the transfer and the convergence of policies identify formal hierarchy, coercion, competition, learning and networking, and the diffusion of international norms as channels for policy transfer. The findings which are presented in this paper are twofold: First, the paper finds evidence that the Commission takes different roles and uses all mechanisms in parallel, albeit with different intensity. It concludes that the approaches to explain policy diffusion are not competing or mutually exclusive but are applied by the same actor to address different aspects of a policy field, or to reach out to different actors. Second, the article provides first evidence of factors that limit the mechanisms’ abilities to directly influence urban mobility systems and mobility behaviour.

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The Rabbit and the Tortoise. Climate Change Policy Development on the Local Level in Norway and Poland

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

A modern guide to national urban policies in Europe

A modern guide to national urban policies in Europe

Trans‐local action and local climate policy. Configurations of success for climate innovations in the European multilevel system

Diffusing Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in the EU

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