TY - JOUR
T1 - Unpacking the heterogeneity of climate city networks
AU - Cortes, Sayel
AU - van der Heijden, Jeroen
AU - Boas, Ingrid
AU - Bush, Simon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - In recent decades, climate city networks, understood as formalized subnational governance networks that have climate change as their focus, have emerged, linking cities to the global climate governance regime and helping them to take climate action locally. Such city networks are considered an essential aspect of urban climate policy and governance. Scholarship on climate city networks has illustrated that such networks can no longer be understood as homogenous groups of organizations; rather, they show heterogeneity in how they seek to attract and engage with member cities. In this article, we unpack this heterogeneity and interrogate the various ways in which climate city networks attract and engage with their members. We are particularly interested in understanding what typifies climate city networks with an active member base. In studying 22 real-world climate city networks, we uncover five distinct types of networks with an active member base. The typology illustrates the rich, but bounded, variety of climate city networks, and helps to clarify how climate city networks can be effective in encouraging their member cities to take local climate action.
AB - In recent decades, climate city networks, understood as formalized subnational governance networks that have climate change as their focus, have emerged, linking cities to the global climate governance regime and helping them to take climate action locally. Such city networks are considered an essential aspect of urban climate policy and governance. Scholarship on climate city networks has illustrated that such networks can no longer be understood as homogenous groups of organizations; rather, they show heterogeneity in how they seek to attract and engage with member cities. In this article, we unpack this heterogeneity and interrogate the various ways in which climate city networks attract and engage with their members. We are particularly interested in understanding what typifies climate city networks with an active member base. In studying 22 real-world climate city networks, we uncover five distinct types of networks with an active member base. The typology illustrates the rich, but bounded, variety of climate city networks, and helps to clarify how climate city networks can be effective in encouraging their member cities to take local climate action.
KW - City network
KW - Climate action
KW - Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)
KW - Urban climate governance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119581777&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103512
DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103512
M3 - Article
SN - 0264-2751
VL - 121
JO - Cities
JF - Cities
M1 - 103512
ER -