Revisiting the urban politics of climate change

Bulkeley, H.A.; Betsill, M.M.

doi:10.1080/09644016.2013.755797

Revisiting the urban politics of climate change

Bulkeley, H.A.; Betsill, M.M.

Authors

Professor Harriet Bulkeley h.a.bulkeley@durham.ac.uk
Deputy Executive Dean (Research)

M.M. Betsill

Abstract

In our 2005 paper, Rethinking Sustainable Cities, we made a case for the increasing significance of climate change in the urban politics of sustainability. Taking a multilevel governance perspective, we argued that the ‘urban’ governance of climate protection was not confined to a local arena or to the actions of the state, but rather was orchestrated through the interrelations between global, national and local actors across state/nonstate boundaries. We revisit these arguments and examine their validity in the light of the rapidly changing landscape of urban responses to climate change and the growing academic literature in this field. We consider in turn: the ways in which climate change is shaping urban agendas; the utility of multilevel governance perspectives for understanding this phenomenon; and the extent to which we can identify a ‘new’ politics of urban climate change governance and its consequent implications for the development of theory and practice in this field.

Citation

Bulkeley, H., & Betsill, M. (2013). Revisiting the urban politics of climate change. Environmental Politics, 22(1), 136-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755797

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Feb 1, 2013
Deposit Date	Feb 28, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Apr 29, 2014
Journal	Environmental Politics
Print ISSN	0964-4016
Electronic ISSN	1743-8934
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	22
Issue	1
Pages	136-154
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755797
Keywords	Urban governance, Climate change, Multilevel governance, Politics, Transition.

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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Bulkeley, H.A. and Betsill, M.M. (2013) 'Revisiting the urban politics of climate change.', Environmental politics., 22 (1). pp. 136-154 as published in the Environmental politics 2013 © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09644016.2013.755797