TY - JOUR

T1 - Innovations for enabling urban climate governance

T2 - evidence from Mumbai

AU - Boyd, Emily

AU - Ghosh, Aditya

PY - 2013/10/1

Y1 - 2013/10/1

N2 - Climate change is a ‘wicked’ problem. No central authority manages climate change, and those creating the problem are also trying to solve it. Climate change brings uncertainty in ways that cities have not tackled previously. There is a need to explore new governance forms able to deal with change and to enable transformations. In this paper we explore seven local climate innovations to better understand the enabling conditions underpinning success and the governance barriers that are encountered. We connect the more formal and emergent climate governance ‘innovations' through adaptation and mitigation experiments in Mumbai, India. Case studies indicate an emerging development model. Effective climate governance has to be an inevitable part of new development in the South. While climate externality exists in all development planning and implementation, smaller community-level efforts indicate how opportunities are offered within existing systems to integrate with larger institutional climate governance.

AB - Climate change is a ‘wicked’ problem. No central authority manages climate change, and those creating the problem are also trying to solve it. Climate change brings uncertainty in ways that cities have not tackled previously. There is a need to explore new governance forms able to deal with change and to enable transformations. In this paper we explore seven local climate innovations to better understand the enabling conditions underpinning success and the governance barriers that are encountered. We connect the more formal and emergent climate governance ‘innovations' through adaptation and mitigation experiments in Mumbai, India. Case studies indicate an emerging development model. Effective climate governance has to be an inevitable part of new development in the South. While climate externality exists in all development planning and implementation, smaller community-level efforts indicate how opportunities are offered within existing systems to integrate with larger institutional climate governance.

KW - Transdisciplinary studies

KW - Geography

KW - Environmental planning

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886838930&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1068/c12172

DO - 10.1068/c12172

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 31

SP - 926

EP - 945

JO - Environment & Planning C: Government and Policy

JF - Environment & Planning C: Government and Policy

SN - 2399-6544

IS - 5

ER -