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Understanding urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change (2013)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & Tuts, R. (2013). Understanding urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change. Local Environment, 18(6), 646-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.788479

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
Bulkeley, H., & Castán Broto, V. (2013). Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(3), 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00535.x

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
Hodson, M., Marvin, S., & Bulkeley, H. (2013). The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester. Urban Studies, 50(7), 1403-1422. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013480967

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
Bulkeley, H., & Betsill, M. (2013). Revisiting the urban politics of climate change. Environmental Politics, 22(1), 136-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755797

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.

Global cities and the politics of climate change. (2012)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H., & Schroeder, H. (2012). Global cities and the politics of climate change. In P. Dauvernge (Ed.), Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing

Bringing climate change to the city: towards low carbon urbanism? (2012)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Castan Broto, V., & Edwards, G. (2012). Bringing climate change to the city: towards low carbon urbanism?. Local Environment, 17(5), 545-551. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.681464

In this paper, we reflect on the role of cities in responding to climate change over the two decades since the historic agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. We find a growth in the scale and nature of municipal resp... Read More about Bringing climate change to the city: towards low carbon urbanism?.

A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities (2012)
Journal Article
Castán Broto, V., & Bulkeley, H. (2012). A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities. Global Environmental Change, 23(1), 92-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.07.005

Cities are key sites where climate change is being addressed. Previous research has largely overlooked the multiplicity of climate change responses emerging outside formal contexts of decision-making and led by actors other than municipal governments... Read More about A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities.

Governing climate change transnationally: assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives (2012)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Andonova, L., Backstrand, K., Betsill, M., Compagnon, D., Duffy, R., …VanDeveer, S. (2012). Governing climate change transnationally: assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives. Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, 30(4), 591-612. https://doi.org/10.1068/c11126

With this paper we present an analysis of sixty transnational governance initiatives and assess the implications for our understanding of the roles of public and private actors, the legitimacy of governance ‘beyond’ the state, and the North–South dim... Read More about Governing climate change transnationally: assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives.

Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change (2012)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2012). Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change. Environment and Planning A, 44(10), 2428-2444. https://doi.org/10.1068/a44678

Within debates about the emergence and nature of governance, it has become commonplace to debate the whereabouts and possibilities of authority. Traditionally, authority is conceived as a property of some actor or institution and is regarded as divis... Read More about Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change.

Cities and subnational governments. (2011)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H. (2011). Cities and subnational governments. In J. Dryzek, R. Norgaard, & D. Schlosberg (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Oxford University Press