A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities.

ABSTRACT: Cities are key sites where climate change is being addressed. Previous research has largely overlooked the multiplicity of climate change responses emerging outside formal contexts of decision-making and led by actors other than municipal governments. Moreover, existing research has largely focused on case studies of climate change mitigation in developed economies. The objective of this paper is to uncover the heterogeneous mix of actors, settings, governance arrangements and technologies involved in the governance of climate change in cities in different parts of the world. The paper focuses on urban climate change governance as a process of experimentation. Climate change experiments are presented here as interventions to try out new ideas and methods in the context of future uncertaint

SUBMITTER: Castan Broto V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3688314 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature