Policy Choice in Local Responses to Climate Change: A Comparison of Urban Strategies

ISBN-13: 9781138671485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 100 str.

Hubert Heinelt;Wolfram Lamping;¬Abar

Opis

Since the 1990s beliefs, ideas or knowledge as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have received increasing attention in social science for the understanding of political changes. This book makes a significant contribution to this scholarly debate and will be of interest to practitioners, showing on one side how climate change has received more and more attention in policy making at the local level and changed the urban agenda and on the other how different the responses of cities to this global challenge are and how these differences between cities can be explained. This book was previously published as a special issue of "Urban Research and Practice.""

Spis treści

1. Introduction: how to explain differences in urban strategies and measures to deal with climate change 2. The development of local knowledge orders: a conceptual framework to explain differences in climate policy at the local level 3. The epistemologies of local climate change policies in Germany 4. The trans-local dimension of local climate policy. Sustaining and transforming local knowledge orders through trans-local action in three German cities 5. The effects of knowledge orders on climate change policy in urban land management and real estate management: a case study of three German cities 6. Institutionalizing a policy by any other name: in the City of Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Plan, does climate change policy or sustainability policy smell as sweet?