Unpacking polycentric climate governance: tracing the evolution of transnational municipal networks over time

Kern, K, Eckersley, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9048-8529, Kochskämper, E and Haupt, W, 2024. Unpacking polycentric climate governance: tracing the evolution of transnational municipal networks over time. Global Environmental Politics, 24 (3), pp. 121-143. ISSN 1526-3800

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Abstract

All governance systems are polycentric to some extent, in that they comprise multiple actors with varying degrees of autonomy. However, there has been limited theorization as to how we might measure polycentricity, even though this could help us to unpack networks and understand governance arrangements better. We present three dimensions of governance to conceptualize degrees of polycentricity – governance of networks (internal organization and management at the network level), governance by networks (their impacts at the membership level), and governance with networks (collaboration with other actors at the system level). We then trace the evolution of three transnational municipal networks (Climate Alliance, Covenant of Mayors, and 100 Resilient Cities/ Resilient Cities Network), which are located at different positions along the polycentric-monocentric spectrum. We examine how these networks have become more or less polycentric over time and highlight trade-offs between different dimensions of polycentric governance, most notably governance of and governance by.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Global Environmental Politics
Creators:	Kern, K., Eckersley, P., Kochskämper, E. and Haupt, W.
Publisher:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
Date:	August 2024
Volume:	24
Number:	3
ISSN:	1526-3800
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1162/glep_a_00754 DOI 1906271 Other
Rights:	© 2024 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For a full description of the license, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	24 Jun 2024 13:02
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2024 08:46
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51617

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