Representing 'Place': City Climate Commissions and the Institutionalisation of Experimental Governance in Edinburgh
Representing 'Place': City Climate Commissions and the Institutionalisation of Experimental Governance in Edinburgh
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DOI：
10.17645/pag.v9i2.3794
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发表时间：
2021-01-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Van der Horst, Dan
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作者：
Creasy, Alice;Lane, Matthew;Van der Horst, Dan
在城市气候治理日益分散和多中心的背景下，本文探讨了建立城市气候“委员会”作为在城市规模上应对气候变化挑战的实验手段。在这样做的过程中，它解决了一个问题：当试图代表城市作为一个气候行动的地方时，什么构成了声音和观点的多样性？为了回答这个问题，本文提出了一个分析爱丁堡气候委员会的成立，借鉴参与民族志研究嵌入项目团队内的研究人员进行。这种新的城市治理模式是如何被概念化，然后付诸实践的帐户提供了一个新的制度角度的文献城市的实验。通过我们的反思性分析，我们认为，（高碳排放）在专员招聘中占了很大比例，以及过度强调捕捉短期内可识别的“影响”（让已积极参与可持续发展的机构参与）气候变化阻碍了一个机会，无法接受关于城市未来的新观点，并利用城市的创新潜力来应对气候挑战的多面性。此外，对地方当局和其他“基于地方”的变革推动者之间关系的新认识，揭示了如何在政治现状中平衡合法性的实现以及新的激进政治对城市转型的前景的重要问题。
Against the backdrop of increasingly fragmented and poly-centric urban climate governance, this article examines the establishment of city climate 'commissions' as an experimental means of addressing the challenge of climate change at the city-scale. In doing so it addresses the question: What constitutes diversity in voices and perspectives when trying to represent the city as a place for climate action? To answer this question, the article presents an analysis of the Edinburgh Climate Commission's establishment, drawing on participatory ethnographic research carried out by a researcher embedded within the project team. The account of how this new mode of urban governance was both conceptualised and then put into practice offers a new institutional angle to the literature on urban 'experimentation.' Through our reflective analysis we argue that aspirations to ensure pre-defined 'key' industries (high carbon emitters) are accounted for in commissioner recruitment, and an over-emphasis on capturing discernible 'impacts' in the short term (by involving organisations already pro-active in sustainable development) hindered an opportunity to embrace new perspectives on urban futures and harness the innovative potential of cities to engage with the multifaceted nature of the climate challenge. Furthermore, new insight into the relationship between local authorities and other 'place-based' agents of change opens up important questions regarding how to balance the attainment of legitimacy within the political status quo, and the prospect of a new radical politics for urban transformation.