Local Government and Climate Change IV: climate justice at the local level

Abstract

Practitioner and scholarly interest in local climate governance has mushroomed over the last decade. Municipal climate managers have taken increasingly ambitious steps towards reducing both carbon emissions and the vulnerability of localities to the changing climate, particularly in larger cities. For their part, political scientists have responded by examining the actors, policies, and processes involved in these developments, to increase our understanding of how local and multilevel governance arrangements operate in different contexts and also to propose practical ways in which municipalities might seek to address climate challenges. This fourth panel on local climate governance brings together papers that cover issues of justice, inclusion and social welfare in climate policy. The papers adopt a range of methods to examine different local understandings of just transitions, as operationalised in community renewable energy projects and municipal strategies and policies.

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Local climate policy and eco-social integration	View Paper Details
Community renewable energy in the Western Balkans: A social experiment led insights into community capacity to self-govern	View Paper Details
Just, urban transformations through resilience innovations? Comparing the policy implementation in cities of the Global South and North in the 100 Resilient Cities network	View Paper Details
Sustainable Mobility as Urban Policy: Case of Poland	View Paper Details