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Thomas Hickmann

Associate professor | Senior lecturer | Recognised Teaching Practitioner

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The Effects of Transnational Municipal Networks on Urban Climate Politics in the Global South

Author

  • Fee Stehle
  • Chris Höhne
  • Thomas Hickmann
  • Markus Lederer

Summary, in English

Transnational municipal networks (TMNs) have emerged as important actors in the global response to climate change. Environmentalists both within and outside governments have placed great expectations and hopes on these networks. Through their novel form of agency, TMNs are expected to provide cities with a form of ‘extra-legem’ empowerment in their responses to climate change. This empowerment is expected to work by linking the international with the local level, which will eventually allow cities to break out of national positions on climate change, overcome local obstacles to the mitigation of climate change, and initiate adaptation policies.

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

210-230

Publication/Series

Urban Climate Politics : Agency and Empowerment

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences
  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781108492973
  • ISBN: 9781108632157