Urban Climate Politics

Jeroen van der Heijden is Professor and Chair in Regulatory Practice at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington and Honorary Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University. His research is concerned with innovations in urban climate governance in the global north and global south. Recent books include Innovations in Urban Climate Governance (Cambridge, 2017) and Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (2014). He is a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. Harriet Bulkeley is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. Her research is concerned with the nature and politics of environmental governance, and she has particular expertise in the areas of climate change, energy and urban sustainability. Recent books include Transnational Climate Change Governance (edited with Andonova, Betsill, Hoffmann, Newell, Paterson, Roger, and Vandeveer; Cambridge, 2014) and Cities and Climate Change (2012). She currently convenes the H2020 NATURVATION project examining urban innovation with nature based solutions for sustainable development. Chiara Certomà is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium and the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna. Her principal research topics include the politics of space and place, the effects of informal urban planning practices, and the role of new ICTs in urban sustainability governance. Recent books include Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City (edited with Dyer, Rizzi and Pocatilu, 2017) and Postenvironmentalism: A Material Semiotic Perspective on Living Spaces (2016).

• 1. Introduction: promises and concerns of the urban century Jeroen van der Heijden, Harriet Bulkeley and Chiara Certomà; 2. Unpacking agency in global urban climate governance: city networks as actors, agents, and arenas David J. Gordon; 3. Empowerment and disempowerment of urban climate governance initiatives: an exploratory typology of mechanisms James J. Patterson and Nicolien van der Grijp; 4. Transnational municipal networks and cities in climate governance: experiments in Brazil Fabiana Barbi and Laura Valente de Macedo; 5. Making climates through the city Lauren Rickards; 6. Cross-movement alliances as a novel form of agency to increase socially just arrangements in urban climate governance Karsten Schulz and Antje Bruns; 7. The politics of data-driven urban climate change mitigation Sara Hughes, Laura Tozer and Sarah Giest; 8. Urban planning for sustainability and justice: lessons from urban agriculture François Mancebo and Chiara Certomà; 9. Unpacking the black box of urban climate agency: (dis)empowerment and inclusion in local participatory processes Scott Morton Ninomiya and Sarah Burch; 10. From public to citizen responsibilities in urban climate adaptation: a thick analysis Caroline J. Uittenbroek, Heleen L. P. Mees, Dries L. T. Hegger and Peter P. J. Driessen; 11. Agency and climate governance African cities: lessons from urban agriculture Christopher Gore; 12. The effects of transnational municipal networks on urban climate politics in the Global South Fee Stehle, Chris Höhne, Thomas Hickmann and Markus Lederer; 13. The politics of urban climate futures: recognition, experimentation, and orchestration Jeroen van der Heijden, Chiara Certomà and Harriet Bulkeley.

'The content of the chapters in Urban Climate Politics is rich, well-structured and detailed in addition to being grounded in theoretical pickings … [a] critical [source] of literature for scholars of urban politics in general, followed by urban climate politics and urban agriculture in particular. In addition, practitioners, policymakers and interested parties alike will find [this book] to be [a] quite useful [resource] in shedding light on their coverage of the pertinent issues surrounding urban politics in policy and practice.' Tariro Kamuti, Urban Studies