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Exploring city climate leadership in theory and practice: responding to the polycentric challenge
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning ( IF 2.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-05
Hege Hofstad, Trond Vedeld

ABSTRACT

This article has a twofold aim inspired by observed gaps in urban climate governance theory and practice. First, it explores city leadership strategies of securing a closer correspondence between climate policy goals and observed realities on the ground. Second, it presents an in-depth and nuanced theoretical understanding of urban climate leadership inspired by four bodies of public administration leadership theory, reflecting leadership as an understudied field in the urban climate governance literature. Being largely exploratory and conceptual in nature, the article aims more specifically to identify the contribution of different public leadership theories and strategies to our understanding of city climate leadership, the explanatory reach and limitations of the theories and the potential interdependency between the leadership strategies. The practice of climate leadership in the city of Oslo is used as an illustrative case. The results show that each body of theory shed light on relevant aspects of climate leadership practices in diverse institutional contexts. By applying a careful mix of these leadership strategies and instruments, city leadership adds the stringence, predictability and motivation needed for multiple public and private actors to engage collectively and bridge policy gaps. However, social, institutional and physical constraints related to the complex, polycentric character of urban climate governance represent phenomena that fall outside the scope of the leadership theories. This point to limitations in the theories’ explanatory reach that give direction to future research.



中文翻译:

在理论和实践中探索城市气候领导力:应对多中心挑战

摘要

本文的双重目的是受到城市气候治理理论和实践中观察到的差距的启发。首先,它探索了城市领导战略,以确保气候政策目标与实地观察到的现实之间更加紧密的对应。其次,它受到四个公共行政领导理论的启发,提出了对城市气候领导力的深入而细微的理论理解,反映了领导力是城市气候治理文献中未被研究的领域。本文本质上是探索性和概念性的,旨在更明确地确定不同的公共领导理论和策略对我们对城市气候领导力的理解,理论的解释范围和局限性以及领导力策略之间潜在的相互依赖性的贡献。奥斯陆市的气候领导实践被作为例证。结果表明,每个理论体系都阐明了在不同制度背景下气候领导实践的相关方面。通过对这些领导策略和手段进行仔细的组合,城市领导者可以增加多个公共和私人参与者共同参与并弥合政策差距所需的严格性,可预测性和动力。但是,与城市气候治理的复杂,多中心特征相关的社会,制度和物质约束代表了超出领导理论范围的现象。这表明了理论解释范围的局限性,这些局限性为未来的研究指明了方向。结果表明,每个理论体系都阐明了在不同制度背景下气候领导实践的相关方面。通过对这些领导策略和手段进行仔细的组合,城市领导者可以增加多个公共和私人参与者共同参与并弥合政策差距所需的严格性,可预测性和动力。但是,与城市气候治理的复杂,多中心特征相关的社会,制度和物质约束代表了超出领导理论范围的现象。这表明了理论解释范围的局限性,这些局限性为未来的研究指明了方向。结果表明,每个理论体系都阐明了在不同制度背景下气候领导实践的相关方面。通过对这些领导战略和手段进行仔细的组合,城市领导可以增加多个公共和私人参与者共同参与并弥合政策差距所需的严格性,可预测性和动力。但是,与城市气候治理的复杂,多中心特征相关的社会,制度和物质约束代表了超出领导理论范围的现象。这表明了理论解释范围的局限性,这些局限性为未来的研究指明了方向。通过对这些领导策略和手段进行仔细的组合,城市领导者可以增加多个公共和私人参与者共同参与并弥合政策差距所需的严格性,可预测性和动力。但是,与城市气候治理的复杂,多中心特征相关的社会,制度和物质约束代表了超出领导理论范围的现象。这表明了理论解释范围的局限性,这些局限性为未来的研究指明了方向。通过对这些领导策略和手段进行仔细的组合,城市领导者可以增加多个公共和私人参与者共同参与并弥合政策差距所需的严格性,可预测性和动力。但是,与城市气候治理的复杂,多中心特征相关的社会,制度和物质约束代表了超出领导理论范围的现象。这表明了理论解释范围的局限性,这些局限性为未来的研究指明了方向。城市气候治理的多中心特征代表了超出领导理论范围的现象。这表明了理论解释范围的局限性,这些局限性为未来的研究指明了方向。城市气候治理的多中心特征代表了超出领导理论范围的现象。这表明了理论解释范围的局限性,这些局限性为未来的研究指明了方向。

更新日期:2021-02-05
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