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Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Multilevel Governance and the 'Urban' Politics of Climate Change
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In this paper, the authors use a multilevel governance perspective to examine the discursive and material struggles which take place in creating sustainable cities and find that the interpretation and implementation of sustainability are shaped by forms of governance which stretch across geographical scales and beyond the boundary of the urban.Abstract:
While sustainable cities have been promoted as a desirable goal within a variety of policy contexts, critical questions concerning the extent to which cities and local governments can address the challenges of sustainability remain unanswered. We use a multilevel governance perspective to examine the discursive and material struggles which take place in creating sustainable cities. In exploring the politics of implementing climate protection through development planning in Newcastle upon Tyne and transport planning in Cambridgeshire, we find that the interpretation and implementation of sustainability are shaped by forms of governance which stretch across geographical scales and beyond the boundary of the urban. We argue that the 'urban' governance of climate protection involves relations between levels of the state and new network spheres of authority which challenge traditional distinctions between local, national and global environmental politics.read more
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Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive interdisciplinary literature review
Simon Elias Bibri,John Krogstie +1 more
TL;DR: The applied theoretical inquiry into smart sustainable cities of the future is deemed of high pertinence and importance—given that the research in the field is still in its early stages, and that the subject matter draws upon contemporary and influential theories with practical applications.
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Local Government and the Governing of Climate Change in Germany and the UK
Harriet Bulkeley,Kristine Kern +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of local climate change policy in Germany and the UK is presented, showing that the impacts of EU policies, financial crises and the political challenges of implementing climate change policies are changing the capacity for local intervention, with potentially significant consequences for medium and longterm goals for climate protection.
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Urban Transition Labs: co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Urban Transition Labs (UTL) as settings in which real life trajectories of sustainable development in cities are deployed and at the same time carefully observed; in a co-creative collaboration between actors and researchers (transdisciplinary research).
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Looking Back and Thinking Ahead: A Decade of Cities and Climate Change Research
TL;DR: For example, this article pointed out that 1997 was the year of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, which was a significant milestone in climate change politics, but with considerably less fanfare than 1996.
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Accumulation by Decarbonization and the Governance of Carbon Offsets
Adam G. Bumpus,Diana Liverman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the governance of international carbon offsets, analyzing the political economy of the origins and governance of offsets, and show how carbon offsets represent capital-accumulation strategies that devolve governance over the atmosphere to supranational and nonstate actors and to the market.
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Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World
TL;DR: Rosenau as mentioned in this paper argues that the dynamics of economic globalization, new technologies, and evolving global norms are clashing with equally powerful localizing dynamics, rendering the boundaries between domestic and foreign affairs ever more porous and creating a political space, designated as the 'Frontier', wherein the quest for control in world politics is joined.
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Global Change in Local Places: How Scale Matters
TL;DR: The authors examines how and why scale matters, drawing on six basic arguments, examines the current state of the top-down global change research paradigm to evaluate the fit across relevant scale domains between global structure and local agency, and reviews current research efforts to better link the local and global scales of attention and action.
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Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process
Susan Owens,Richard Cowell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new and critical analysis explores the impact of sustainable development on the institutions and practices governing use of land, and examines the paradox that in spite of increasing attention to sustainability, land use conflict is as ubiquitous and intense as ever.