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作者

来源

URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW,Vol.53,Issue2,P.362-380

语言

英文

关键字

climate change; urban governance; urban policy; politics of policy; GOVERNANCE; CITIES; PROTECTION; NETWORKS; CITY; IMPLEMENTATION; COMMITMENT; INSTITUTIONS; INITIATIVES; CAPACITY

作者单位

[Hughes, Sara] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Hughes, S (reprint author), Univ Toronto, Dept Polit Sci, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada. E-Mail: Sara.hughes@utoronto.ca

摘要

Urban politics research has not kept paceempirically or theoreticallywith city governments' engagement with climate change policy. Thousands of cities globally have made commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and are taking steps toward these goals. In the United States, research has examined the motivations for such actions and has described some of the implementation challenges cities are encountering, but we lack a theoretically informed understanding of how these actions intersect politically with existing interests, institutions, and fiscal realities in cities. This article identifies five political entry points that are specific to urban climate change policy and can provide a foundation for empirically and theoretically valuable research. The pursuit of such an interdisciplinary urban research agenda for climate change would enhance our understanding of when and how cities are successful in addressing climate change and would provide new answers to long-standing questions in urban politics.