Urban Climate Governance Experimentation in Seoul: Science, Politics, or a Little of Both?

Jeroen van der Heijden*, Seung Hun Hong

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    Abstract

    Cities are key in urban climate mitigation. Since the early 2000s, a trend of urban climate governance experimentation has been observed in which cities, and especially city governments, are trialing novel governance interventions, processes, and instruments to learn from their development and implementation. This article explores the role of the government of the city of Seoul, South Korea, in a range of local experiments. It particularly focuses on the factors that contribute to the success (or lack thereof) of urban climate governance experimentation. It finds that the city’s government has been successful in developing and trialing some but not all experiments and that the overall results of these are promising in certain areas of city development and use. The article also highlights some less promising results, indicating the fragile nature of urban climate governance experimentation—in both the scientific and political senses of the term.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1115-1148
    Number of pages34
    JournalUrban Affairs Review
    Volume57
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2021

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