Local Government and Climate Change II: local policy experimentation, diffusion and scaling

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 second panel on local climate governance brings together papers that examine the mechanisms and capacity that facilitate climate policy innovation, scaling and diffusion along different dimensions: internally within municipalities; horizontally between municipalities; vertically across tiers of governance; and temporally over time.

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Governing spatial scaling within, across, and beyond and cities	View Paper Details
Channels of Policy Diffusion and Upscaling: Insights from Municipal Climate Change Adaptation Policy in Germany	View Paper Details
The role of local authorities in governing and scaling Local Energy Communities	View Paper Details