All Outputs (7)

Urban governance and climate change experiments. (2013)
Book Chapter

Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure (2013)
Journal Article

Climate change governance is increasingly being conducted through urban climate change experiments, purposive interventions that seek to reconfigure urban sociotechnical systems to achieve low-carbon and resilient cities. In examining how experiments... Read More about Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure.

Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses (2013)
Journal Article

Ever since climate change came to be a matter of political concern, questions of justice have been at the forefront of academic and policy debates in the international arena. Curiously, as attention has shifted to other sites and scales of climate ch... Read More about Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses.

Understanding urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change (2013)
Journal Article

Climate change processes pose significant challenges to development in cities across West Africa. These processes shape and mediate urban vulnerability across urban areas and hinder wider development efforts across these cities. This paper reviews th... Read More about Understanding urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change.

Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change (2013)
Journal Article

In this paper, we argue for an approach that goes beyond an institutional reading of urban climate governance to engage with the ways in which government is accomplished through social and technical practices. Central to the exercise of government in... Read More about Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change.

The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester (2013)
Journal Article

Making a low carbon economic future for the UK has been declared a key priority by both the previous Labour government and also the current coalition government. Yet there is a large gap between the symbolic representations of a low carbon future and... Read More about The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester.

Revisiting the urban politics of climate change (2013)
Journal Article

In our 2005 paper, Rethinking Sustainable Cities, we made a case for the increasing significance of climate change in the urban politics of sustainability. Taking a multilevel governance perspective, we argued that the ‘urban’ governance of climate p... Read More about Revisiting the urban politics of climate change.