Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 146-166Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2019.1522039
Keywords
Structurally disadvantaged cities; climate; pioneers; leaders; offshore wind energy jobs; societal participation
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- British Academy [SG 131240]
- University of Hull
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Innovative climate governance in small-to-medium-sized structurally disadvantaged cities (SDCs) are assessed. Considering their deeply ingrained severe economic and social problems it would be reasonable to assume that SDCs act primarily as climate laggards or at best as followers. However, novel empirical findings show that SDCs are capable of acting as climate pioneers. Different types and styles of climate leadership and pioneership and how they operate within multi-level and polycentric governance structures are identified and assessed. SDCs seem relatively readily willing to adopt transformational climate pioneership styles to create 'green' jobs, for example, in the offshore wind energy sector and with the aim of improving their poor external image. However, in order to sustain transformational climate pioneership they often have to rely on support from 'higher' levels of governance. For SDCs, there is a tension between learning from each other's best practice and fierce economic competition in climate innovation.
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