Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment

258 Pages·2019·2.723 MB·English

by  Jeroen van der Heijden (editor), Harriet Bulkeley (editor), Chiara Certomà (editor)

URBAN CLIMATE POLITICS: AGENCY AND
EMPOWERMENT
Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on urban climate politics and
governance. It is now evident that urban responses to climate change involve a diverse
rangeofactorsaswellasformsofagencythatcrosstraditionalboundaries,andthathave
diverseconsequencesfor(dis)empoweringdifferentsocialgroups.
This book provides an overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics,
discussingthefrictionandpowerdynamicsbetweenthem.Writtenbyrenownedscholars,
itcriticallyassessestheadvantagesandlimitationsofincreasingagencyinurbanclimate
governance.Indoingso,itshedscriticalnewlightontheexistingliterature,advancesthe
state of knowledge of urban climate governance, and discusses ways to accelerate urban
climateaction.Withchaptersbuildingoncasestudiesfromacrosstheworld,itisidealfor
scholarsandpractitionersworkingintheareaofurbanclimatepoliticsandgovernance.
jeroen van der heijden isProfessorofGovernanceandChairinRegulatoryPractice
at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and
Honorary Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian
National University (Australia). His research is concerned with innovations in urban
climate governance in the Global North and Global South. Recent books include
Innovations in Urban Climate Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and
GovernanceforUrbanSustainabilityandResilience(2014).
harriet bulkeley isProfessorofGeography andholdsajoint appointmentat Durham
University(UK)andUtrechtUniversity(theNetherlands).Herresearchisconcernedwiththe
natureandpoliticsofenvironmentalgovernance,andshehasparticularexpertiseintheareasof
climatechange,energy,andurbansustainability.RecentbooksincludeTransnationalClimate
ChangeGovernance(editedwithL.B.Andonovaetal.;CambridgeUniversityPress,2017)
andCitiesandClimateChange(2013).ShecurrentlyconvenestheH2020NATURVATION
projectexaminingurbaninnovationwithnature-basedsolutionsforsustainabledevelopment.
chiara certoma` is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Ghent University
(Belgium) and an Affiliated Researcher at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
(Italy). Her principal research topics include the politics of space and place, the effects of
informal urban planning practices, and the role of new information and communication
technologiesinurbansustainabilitygovernance.RecentbooksincludeCitizenEmpowerment
andInnovationintheData-RichCity(editedwithM.Dyer,L.Pocatilu,andF.Rizzi;2017)
andPostenvironmentalism:AMaterialSemioticPerspectiveonLivingSpaces(2016).
TheEarthSystemGovernanceProjectwasestablishedin2009asacoreprojectoftheInternational
Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. Since then, the Project has
evolvedintothelargestsocialscienceresearchnetworkintheareaofsustainabilityandgovernance.
TheEarthSystemGovernanceProjectexplorespoliticalsolutionsandnovel,moreeffectivegovern-
ancemechanismstocopewiththecurrenttransitionsinthesocio-ecologicalsystemsofourplanet.
Thenormativecontextofthisresearchissustainabledevelopment;earthsystemgovernanceisnot
onlyaquestionofinstitutionaleffectiveness,butalsoofpoliticallegitimacyandsocialjustice.
TheEarthSystemGovernanceserieswithCambridgeUniversityPresspublishesthemainresearch
findingsandsynthesisvolumesfromtheProject’sfirsttenyearsofoperation.
SeriesEditor
FrankBiermann,UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands
Titlesinprintinthisseries
BiermannandLövbrand(eds.),AnthropoceneEncounters:NewDirectionsinGreen
PoliticalThinking
vanderHeijden,BulkeleyandCertomà(eds.),UrbanClimatePolitics:Agencyand
Empowerment
URBAN CLIMATE POLITICS
Agency and Empowerment
Editedby
JEROEN VAN DER HEIJDEN
VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonandAustralianNationalUniversity
HARRIET BULKELEY
DurhamUniversityandUtrechtUniversity
CHIARA CERTOMÀ
GhentUniversityandSant’AnnaSchoolofAdvancedStudies
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Contents
ListofContributors pagevii
Acknowledgements ix
1 PromisesandConcernsoftheUrbanCentury:IncreasingAgencyand
ContestedEmpowerment 1
jeroen van der heijden, harriet bulkeley, and chiara certoma`
2 UnpackingAgencyinGlobalUrbanClimateGovernance:City
NetworksasActors,Agents,andArenas 21
david j. gordon
3 EmpowermentandDisempowermentofUrbanClimateGovernance
Initiatives:AnExploratoryTypologyofMechanisms 39
james j. patterson and nicolien van der grijp
4 TransnationalMunicipalNetworksandCitiesinClimateGovernance:
ExperimentsinBrazil 59
fabiana barbi and laura valente de macedo
5 MakingClimatesthroughtheCity 80
lauren rickards
6 Cross-MovementAlliancesasaNovelFormofAgencytoIncrease
SociallyJustArrangementsinUrbanClimateGovernance 98
karsten schulz and antje bruns
7 ThePoliticsofData-DrivenUrbanClimateChangeMitigation 116
sara hughes, laura tozer, and sarah giest
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8 UrbanPlanningforSustainabilityandJustice:LessonsfromUrban
Agriculture 135
franc¸ois mancebo and chiara certoma`
9 UnpackingtheBlackBoxofUrbanClimateAgency:
(Dis)EmpowermentandInclusioninLocalParticipatoryProcesses 152
scott morton ninomiya and sarah burch
10 FromPublictoCitizenResponsibilitiesinUrbanClimateAdaptation:
AThickAnalysis 171
carolinej.uittenbroek,heleenl.p.mees,driesl.t.hegger,and
peter p. j. driessen
11 AgencyandClimateGovernanceinAfricanCities:LessonsfromUrban
Agriculture 190
christopher gore
12 TheEffectsofTransnationalMunicipalNetworksonUrbanClimate
PoliticsintheGlobalSouth 210
fee stehle, chris ho¨hne, thomas hickmann, and markus lederer
13 ThePoliticsofUrbanClimateFutures:Recognition,Experimentation,
Orchestration 231
jeroen van der heijden, chiara certoma`, and harriet bulkeley
Index 243
Contributors
FabianaBarbiisaresearchassociateattheCentreforEnvironmentalStudiesand
Research,UniversityofCampinasBrazil.
AntjeBrunsisaprofessorattheGovernanceandSustainabilityLab,Trier
University,Germany.
SaraBurchisanassociateprofessorattheDepartmentofGeographyand
EnvironmentalManagement,UniversityofWaterloo,Canada.
PeterP.J.DriessenisaprofessorattheCopernicusInstituteofSustainable
Development,UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands.
SarahGiestisanassistantprofessorattheInstituteofPublicAdministration,
LeidenUniversity,theNetherlands.
DavidJ.GordonisanassistantprofessorattheDepartmentofPolitics,University
ofCaliforniaSantaCruz,USA.
ChristopherGoreisanassociateattheDepartmentofPoliticsandPublic
Administration,RyersonUniversity,Canada.
DriesL.T.HeggerisanassistantprofessorattheCopernicusInstituteof
SustainableDevelopment,UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands.
ThomasHickmannisapostdoctoralresearcherattheChairofInternational
Politics,UniversityofPotsdam,Germany.
ChrisHöhneisaPhDcandidateandresearchassociateattheInstituteofPolitical
Science,TechnicalUniversityofDarmstadt,Germany.
SaraHughesisanassistantprofessorattheDepartmentofPoliticalScience,
UniversityofToronto,Canada.
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MarkusLedererisaprofessorattheInstituteofPoliticalScience,Technical
UniversityofDarmstadt,Germany.
FrançoisManceboisaprofessorattheFacultyofHumanitiesandSocial
Sciences,UniversityofReimsChampagne-Ardenne,France.
HeleenL.P.MeesisanassistantprofessorattheCopernicusInstituteof
SustainableDevelopment,UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands.
ScottMortonNinomiyaisaPhDstudentattheBalsillieSchoolofInternational
Affairs,UniversityofWaterloo,Canada.
JamesJ.PattersonisanassistantprofessorattheCopernicusInstituteof
SustainableDevelopment,UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands.
LaurenRickardsisanassociateprofessorattheSchoolofGlobal,Urbanand
SocialStudies,RMITUniversity,Australia.
KarstenSchulzisanassistantprofessorattheDataResearchCentre,Universityof
Groningen,theNetherlands.
FeeStehleisadoctoralresearcherattheChairofInternationalPolitics,University
ofPotsdam,Germany.
LauraTozerisapostdoctoralresearcherintheDepartmentofGeography,Durham
University,UK.
CarolineJ.UittenbroekisapostdoctoralresearcherattheCopernicusInstituteof
SustainableDevelopment,UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands.
LauraValentedeMacedoisapostdoctoralresearcherattheSãoPauloSchoolof
Management,FundaçãoGetulioVargas,Brazil.
NicolienvanderGrijpisaseniorresearcherattheInstituteforEnvironmental
Studies,FreeUniversityofAmsterdam,theNetherlands.
Acknowledgements
The idea for this book began late 2016, on an Australian roadside, in an English
home, and in an Italian office. On a trip from the Blue Mountains to Canberra,
Jeroen had planned a video-call with Harriet to discuss some first ideas for an
edited book within the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project’s Harvesting
Initiative. Not long after, in another video-call – albeit from a less scenic spot in
Australia–Chiarajoinedinalso.
TheESGProjectwaslaunchedin2009.Ithasbecomethelargestsocialscience
researchnetworkintheareaofgovernanceandglobalenvironmentalchange.Over
theyears,ithasexpandedintoabroadcommunityof300globalscholars,adozen
research centres, annual conferences, and a lively online presence. Now, close to
a decade after its launch, it is time to harvest what has been achieved by ESG
scholars – this is, in a nutshell, what the ESG Harvesting Initiative entails. This
bookdoessoforESGworkonurbanclimatetransitions.
Many of the chapters in this book were first presented at the 2017 Lund
Conference on Earth System Governance: “Allocation & Access in a Warming
andIncreasinglyUnequalWorld.”Atthisconference,Jeroen,Harriet,andChiara
heldtwoworkshopstodiscussdraftchapters andthinkcritically aboutnotionsof
increasingagencyandcontestedempowermentinurbanclimatepolitics.Wewould
liketothanktheauthorsandaudiencefortheirparticipationintheseworkshopsand
for the valuable input they have given us and each other toward improving the
variouschaptersinthisbook.
WewouldalsoliketothankthepublishingteamatCambridgeUniversityPress,
andinparticularEmmaKiddle,fortheirsupportandhelpwiththecommissioning
and production of this book. Many thanks also to Frank Biermann, Ruben
Zondervan, and other ESG staff and faculty for coordinating the ESG Project’s
Harvesting Initiative. A word of gratitude also goes to the five anonymous
reviewersforprovidinguswithhelpfulsuggestionstofurtherimprovethebook.
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