Networked urban governance is emerging as a major feature of metropolitan strategy and
activity. The field of urban studies is yet to deeply engage in the debates on the new forms of …

In recent years, one observes a surge in the number of city networks formed to address the
welcoming and integration of immigrant populations. Drawing on a database of over sixty …

Three hundred and fifty municipalities across five continents participated in the Urban
Climate Change Governance Survey (UCGS). Conducted at MIT in partnership with ICLEI …

While sustainable cities have been promoted as a desirable goal within a variety of policy
contexts, critical questions concerning the extent to which cities and local governments can …

This paper seeks to develop an alternative account of the geographies of environmental
governance to those current conceptions which tend to take space and scale for granted as …

We explore how the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) program, a network that is
simultaneously global and local, state and nonstate, could be conceptualized as part of …

Cities have increasingly recognised the risks posed by climate change and the need to
adapt. To support climate action, cities have formed cooperative networks such as the C40 …

Cities have become crucial actors for the global governance of climate change. Their
increased activity in this field is reflected by the rising number of adoptions of local climate …

Strategic niche management (SNM) conceives of local experiments within protected spaces
as important initiators of learning and empowerment of new sustainable technologies. We …

Previously perceived as a local, technical issue for governments, waste management is now
also a global, socio-political process involving complex patterns of multi-level governance …