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Abstract
The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as ‘an urgent agenda’ (World Bank 2010). The contribution of cities to rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions coupled with concerns about the vulnerability of urban places and communities to the impacts of climate change have led to a relatively recent and rapidly proliferating interest amongst both academic and policy communities in how cities might be able to respond to mitigation and adaptation. Theorizing urban climate governance as a set of processes that exceed the institutional boundaries of the local state, we argue that critical to the urban response to climate change is a mode of ‘experimentation’ where municipalities, private and civil society actors seek to demonstrate, experience, learn and challenge a multiplicity of interventions, projects and schemes as ‘solutions’ to the urban climate problem. Framed as ‘solutions’ (best practices, pilots, learning opportunities), climate change experiments provide a means for understanding the ways in which climate change is being problematized in the city, how actors, interests and various urban flows and materialities are being assembled in response, and the ways in which such interventions come to take on meaning within urban socio-technical systems and the spaces of the everyday.
Rather than regarding ‘experiments’ as exceptional, my argument is that they are central to the contested urban politics of socio-technical transition taking place in response to climate change. The lecture will explore these issues through the development of a new analytical approach for understanding the urban politics of climate change. It will draw on cases of how global cities are seeking to address climate change through experimentation with energy systems and relate this work to the wider politics of low carbon transitions.
The lecture will be based on a new book which is forthcoming with Routledge in Autumn 2014 written by Harriet with her colleagues Vanesa Cástan Broto (UCL) and Gareth Edwards (UEA).
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
10/01/2014 16:00 - 10/01/2014 18:00
Registration deadline:
09/30/2014
Event venue:
Flakenstraße 28-31,
Konferenzraum (4. Etage)
15537 Erkner
Brandenburg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Energy, Environment / ecology, Oceanology / climate, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
08/29/2014
Sender/author:
Dr. Karina Böhm
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event48167
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