Participating our way to low-carbon cities or decarbonising our way to urban democracy:an exploration of processes and outcomes in contemporary urban

气候变化政治(续标题)。本博士学位将探讨城市背景下气候变化参与和治理之间的联系。具体地说，它将审查增加对气候变化项目决策的参与是被视为提供有效气候变化成果的进程的一部分，还是被视为本身的一个单独结果。探索这一点将使博士能够研究不同的参与式治理结构是如何塑造气候变化治理的。但它也将允许博士探索气候变化问题如何重塑城市政治；通过研究谁、如何以及为什么不同的群体参与关于气候变化的决策，博士将探索气候变化问题如何围绕它创造新的公众。为了实现这一目标，博士将研究西班牙巴塞罗那的三个项目-其中一个项目的实施是为了通过使用参与性工具来实现气候变化成果，其中两个项目的实施是为了加强对地方治理的参与，但已经带来了气候变化的积极成果。参与式治理的研究几乎总是集中于对单个项目的分析，或者用相同的方法直接比较项目。正如这位博士所建议的，在相同的地理位置比较不同的方法是一种相对新颖的方法。因此，它应该被证明是学术上的原创，并将使博士有效地探索前面提到的气候变化和城市政治重塑之间的反身性关系。

climate change politics (continuation from the title).This PhD will explore the connections between participation and the governance of climate change in urban contexts. Specifically, it will examine whether increased participation in decision making about climate change projects is seen as a part of the process of delivering effective climate change outcomes, or is seen as a separate outcome in itself. Exploring this will allow the PhD to examine how different participatory governance structures are shaping the governance of climate change. But it will also allow the PhD to explore how the problem of climate change is reshaping urban politics; by examining who, how, and why different groups are participating in decisions about climate change, the PhD will explore how the issue of climate change is creating new publics around it. To achieve this, the PhD will look at three projects in Barcelona, Spain - one of which was implemented to achieve climate change outcomes by using participatory tools, two of which were implemented to improve participation in local governance but have delivered climate change positive outcomes. Studies of participatory governance almost always focus on theanalysis of a single project, or direct comparison of projects with identical methods. Comparing different methods in the same geographical location, as this PhD proposes, is a relatively novel approach. It should therefore prove academically original and will allow the PhD to effectively explore the aforementioned reflexive relationship between climate change and the reshaping of urban politics.