Trans-local action and local innovations in the face of climate change. A comparison of major German cities

该研究项目旨在测试一系列因素和条件，以解释城市在气候变化问题上采用创新方法的原因。我们建议分析学习条件，评估地方气候治理的创新，并确定地方知识秩序的变化。因此，我们将学习理解为有意转移本地知识的过程，而将创新定义为学习的结果。在这些过程中，气候政策的创新可能盛行，也可能失败。该项目建立在正在进行的研究的基础上，但在两个方面超越了它。首先，学习的视角应该集中在跨地区行动及其对气候保护计划和气候保护政策的具体影响上。其次，我们打算测试我们的初步结果，并扩大我们的重点，因为我们将研究应用于更多的案例。因此，需要对德国所有主要城市（人口超过10万）进行比较。该项目旨在促进地方气候治理研究中一个广泛认可的愿望，即克服对案例研究的关注和缺乏系统比较。

The research project aims to test a set of factors and conditions explaining the adoption of innovative approaches of cities regarding the issue of climate change. We propose to analyze the conditions of learning and to assess innovations in local climate governance and identify change of local knowledge orders. Thereby, we understand learning as the process of an intentional shift of local knowledge, while we define innovation as the result of learning. Innovations in climate policy can prevail or fail to appear within these processes. The project builds on the ongoing research but exceeds it in two respects. First, the perspective on learning should concentrate on trans-local action and its concrete consequences on climate protection schemes and climate protection policies. Secondly, we intend to test our preliminary results and broaden our focus since we apply the research to a larger number of cases. Therefore, a comparison of all major German cities (with more than 100.000 inhabitants) shall be conducted. The project aims to contribute to a widely acknowledged desideratum in research on local climate governance, namely to overcome the concentration on case studies and the lack of systematic comparison.