Local Government and Climate Change III: narratives and conflicts in local policymaking

Abstract

Practitioner and scholarly interest in local climate governance has mushroomed over the last decade. Municipal climate managers have taken increasingly ambitious steps towards reducing both carbon emissions and the vulnerability of localities to the changing climate, particularly in larger cities. For their part, political scientists have responded by examining the actors, policies, and processes involved in these developments, to increase our understanding of how local and multilevel governance arrangements operate in different contexts and also to propose practical ways in which municipalities might seek to address climate challenges. This third panel on local climate governance brings together papers that analyse the narratives that different policy actors are adopting to advance their policy preferences at the municipal level. It features papers that examine how key actors deploy certain narratives to shape not only political debate but also the implementation of climate mitigation and adaptation measures at the local level.

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