TY - JOUR
T1 - Urban Climate Governance Experimentation in Seoul
T2 - Science, Politics, or a Little of Both?
AU - van der Heijden, Jeroen
AU - Hong, Seung Hun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Seoul
KW - experimental governance
KW - urban climate governance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082108236&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1078087420911207
DO - 10.1177/1078087420911207
M3 - Article
SN - 1078-0874
VL - 57
SP - 1115
EP - 1148
JO - Urban Affairs Review
JF - Urban Affairs Review
IS - 4
ER -