ABSTRACT

Green Infrastructure (GI) is being adopted in cities all around the world as a key piece of climate change adaptation and water management for local governments. Recognizing that there is increasingly a diversity of actors engaged in designing, implementing, and fostering GI policies, we aim to better understand how urban GI policies take shape over time. We draw from two bodies of scholarship – – agency in Earth System Governance and entrepreneurs in public policy scholarship -- to study the agents who come to exercise authority to shape GI governance. We trace the trajectory of urban GI practices and policy over the past two decades, keenly observing how GI policies are adopted and change over time. We focus on Tucson, Arizona and combine document analysis, key informant interviews, and participation in stakeholder meetings with an innovative timeline method we collaboratively developed with stakeholders to identify the key events and actors in GI policy adoption. Our findings suggest diverse yet, interconnected roles for entrepreneurs highlighting how agency is exercised, how learning occurs and takes shape across entrepreneurs and scales, and how inequities are realized and addressed.

摘要

绿色基础设施 (GI) 正被世界各地的城市采用，作为地方政府应对气候变化和水资源管理的关键部分。认识到参与设计、实施和促进地理标志政策的参与者越来越多样化，我们旨在更好地了解城市地理标志政策如何随着时间的推移而形成。我们从两个奖学金机构——地球系统治理机构和公共政策奖学金企业家——来研究行使权力来塑造地理标志治理的代理人。我们追溯了过去二十年城市地理标志实践和政策的轨迹，敏锐地观察地理标志政策是如何被采纳和随着时间的推移而变化的。我们专注于亚利桑那州图森市，并结合文件分析、关键线人访谈、并使用我们与利益相关者合作开发的创新时间表方法参与利益相关者会议，以确定 GI 政策采用中的关键事件和参与者。我们的研究结果表明，企业家扮演着多种多样但又相互关联的角色，强调了如何行使代理权，学习如何在企业家和规模之间发生和形成，以及如何实现和解决不平等。