Urban Energy Policies and the Governance of Multilevel Issues in Cape Town
Urban Energy Policies and the Governance of Multilevel Issues in Cape Town
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开普敦城市能源政策和多层次问题治理
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2014
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Sylvy Jaglin
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Sylvy Jaglin
与城市能源政策相关的多尺度挑战是各级政府和社会力量广泛互动的原因。然而，这些多层次的行动体系往往反映了复杂和不稳定的权力和阻力模式，而不是稳定的合作过程。因此，在本文中，多层次治理视角被用来作为一个起点，以了解能源系统中多层次的相互作用在哪里以及如何发生，以及哪些问题正在造成政治冲突以及城市能源政策治理的相关后果。开普敦的一个案例研究说明了这种做法，说明了不同级别政府的政策和议程相互冲突的情况，从而造成了不同规模的倡议的极大分散。然而，将这些举措整合到一个更广泛的连贯框架中，不仅仅是一个技术问题。由于城市能源政策涉及多层面的问题，它们意味着在不同类型的组织和当局之间协商动态而复杂的妥协，同时塑造它们的治理也是一个政治问题。
The multiscalar challenges associated with urban energy policies are the cause of extensive interaction among multiple levels of government and social forces. However, these multilevel systems of action tend to reflect complex and unstable power and resistance patterns rather than stable co-operation processes. Thus, in this paper, a multilevel governance perspective is used as a starting point for understanding where and how multilevel interactions arise in an energy system as well as which issues are creating political conflict and the related consequences for the governance of urban energy policies. This approach is illustrated through a case study of Cape Town, which exemplifies a situation of conflicting policy and agendas at different levels of government, thus creating a great dispersion of initiatives across different scales. Integrating these initiatives within a broader coherent framework, however, is not only a technical matter. As urban energy policies deal with multilevel issues, they imply negotiating dynamic and complex compromises between different types of organisations and authorities while shaping their governance is also a matter of politics.