Policy Choice in Local Responses to Climate Change

Hubert Heinelt is professor of public administration, public policy and urban studies at the Institute of Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt. His current research focuses on European integration and urban studies.Wolfram Lamping is senior researcher at the Institute for Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt. His current research focuses on European Integration, multi-level governance, and urban studies.

• 1. Introduction: how to explain differences in urban strategies and measures to deal with climate change 2. The development of local knowledge orders: a conceptual framework to explain differences in climate policy at the local level 3. The epistemologies of local climate change policies in Germany 4. The trans-local dimension of local climate policy. Sustaining and transforming local knowledge orders through trans-local action in three German cities 5. The effects of knowledge orders on climate change policy in urban land management and real estate management: a case study of three German cities 6. Institutionalizing a policy by any other name: in the City of Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Plan, does climate change policy or sustainability policy smell as sweet?