FOR 1730: Local Formation of Knowledge Relevent for Chosing Specific Local Strategies and Measures against Climate Change

该研究组试图通过作为政治决策基础的地方认识论（或知识秩序）的重大转变来解释地方气候政策的政策变化，以及衡量标准和工具的选择。局部认识论反映了什么被认为是事实的或规范的适当行为。认识论远非同质化，而是揭示了相互矛盾或竞争的知识主张，特别是在政治变革时期。研究股的目标是确定选择和产生知识的机制和做法（示范做法、客观化战略、专家的作用、参与），并解释城市特有的应对气候变化的方法。实证研究主要集中在慕尼黑、斯图加特和法兰克福这三个德国城市。这三个城市都制定了雄心勃勃的措施，以成为欧洲的绿色之都或领先的“低碳城市”。研究小组的六个项目涉及运输规划和运输管理、欧洲化、土地使用规划、环境政治、房地产行业、地方行政和国际城市网络。

The Research Unit seeks to explain policy-change in local climate policies by significant shifts of local epistemologies (or knowledge orders) underlying political decisions and choices of measurer and instruments. Local epistemologies reflect what is considered to be a factual or normative appropriate action or not. Epistemologies are far from being homogenous but reveal contradictory or competing knowledge claims, particularly in times of political change. The goals of the Research Unit are to identify mechanisms and practices of the selection and generation of knowledge (demonstration practices, strategies of objectivation, role of experts, participation) and to explain city-specific ways of dealing with climate change. Empirical studies focus on the three German cities of Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main. All of these three cities developed ambitious measures to become the green capital of Europe or a leading "low carbon city". The six projects of the Research Unit address transport planning and transport management, Europeanisation, land use planning, environmental politics, the real estate sector, the local administration and international city networks.