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Competences of local and regional urban governance actors to support low-carbon transitions : development of a framework and its application to a case-study

  • Urban areas, being responsible for large shares of global greenhouse gas emissions, are important arenas for achieving global decarbonisation. However, the systemic challenge of decarbonisation requires deep structural changes - transitions - that take place across multiple scales and along entire value chains. We argue in this article that understanding the role of urban areas for global decarbonisation therefore requires consideration of their context and analysis of urban areas' contributions to transitions that extend past the individual urban area. We develop an analytical framework that proposes three principal ways urban areas contribute to low-carbon transitions and ten competences that regional and local governance actors have toUrban areas, being responsible for large shares of global greenhouse gas emissions, are important arenas for achieving global decarbonisation. However, the systemic challenge of decarbonisation requires deep structural changes - transitions - that take place across multiple scales and along entire value chains. We argue in this article that understanding the role of urban areas for global decarbonisation therefore requires consideration of their context and analysis of urban areas' contributions to transitions that extend past the individual urban area. We develop an analytical framework that proposes three principal ways urban areas contribute to low-carbon transitions and ten competences that regional and local governance actors have to support them. We apply this framework to the Cologne metropolitan area in Germany to demonstrate the ability of our framework to relate urban-scale activities to more encompassing low-carbon transitions. The paper concludes with future research possibilities.show moreshow less

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Document Type:Peer-Reviewed Article
Author:Georg HoltzORCiDGND, Chun Xia-Bauer, Michaela Roelfes, Ralf SchüleORCiDGND, Daniel VallentinORCiDGND, Lilia Martens
URN (citable link):https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-69229
DOI (citable link):https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.137
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Source Title (English):Journal of cleaner production
Volume:177
First Page:846
Last Page:856
Divisions:Zukünftige Energie- und Industriesysteme
Dewey Decimal Classification:600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften
OpenAIRE:OpenAIRE
Licence:License LogoIn Copyright - Urheberrechtlich geschützt