Urban climate governance in Russia: Insights from Moscow and St. Petersburg

Heijden, Jeroen van der; Luckmann, Olesya; Cherkasheva, Alexandra

doi:10.1080/07352166.2019.1617036

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“…The second additional factor is societal pressure; if the city population is in favour of climate action, measures are more likely to be proposed and successfully introduced. This factor was used by van der Heijden, Luckmann and Cherkasheva-in addition to the original eight-to guide their assessment of the state of urban climate governance in Moscow and Saint Petersburg [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing City Governance for Low-Carbon Mobility in London

Drummond

2021

Sustainability

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City-level decisions are crucial for delivering a low carbon transition, particularly as urban population dynamics and environments change in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ensuring appropriate governance structures, mechanisms and resources to facilitate these decisions is therefore essential. Based on a systematic literature review by van der Heijden (2019), this paper develops a simple framework to assess the state of ten enabling factors for effective urban climate governance, and applies it to low-carbon passenger mobility in London. Drawing on documentary evidence and a series of semi-structured expert interviews, it finds that London’s city authorities have a strong capacity for autonomy, stakeholder participation, local leadership and coordination on climate action and mobility, of which they make extensive use. The national legal and political framework remains broadly supportive following the UK’s departure from the EU, but multi-level co-ordination is thin, and funding issues have intensified conflict over political jurisdiction since the pandemic began. Spatial variation in urban form and infrastructure, coupled with dual-layer city administration, complicate the socio-political landscape and drive for climate action in mobility.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%