Sofie Bouteligier conducted her PhD research at the Global Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development Research Group of Kuleuven, Belgium. Currently, she is a postdoc researcher at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University and an associate fellow of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. Her research focuses on city networks for global environmental governance and the interactions between multinational private companies and cities in the search for sustainable urban futures.

• 1: Introduction. 2: City Networks for Global Environmental Governance. 3: Networks, Global Cities, and Environmental Flows. 4: Methodology. 5: City Networks and Innovative Global Environmental Governance. 6: City Networks and Conventional Global Environmental Governance. 7: Conclusion: A Networked Urban World as Vehicle for Environmental Sustainability

"Bouteligier's insightful turn to emphasize globalizing urban networks get us past the usual crusty categorizations of some cities as global—and most as not. Her book does the hard empirical and critical work that enables a basic rethinking of the possibilities for innovative environmental governance. It is compelling."—Paul James, RMIT University Australia "Bouteligier's extensive and empirically rich study of networks of consultancy firms, non-governmental organizations and municipal governments sheds new light on how, why, and with what implications cities are playing a role in global environmental governance. It provides an important bridging point between the literatures on globalization, global cities, and environmental governance, and will be an important reference point for scholars engaged in these increasingly intertwined debates."— Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University