Innovations for enabling urban climate governance: evidence from Mumbai

Boyd, E. and Ghosh, A. (2013) Innovations for enabling urban climate governance: evidence from Mumbai. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31 (5). pp. 926-945. ISSN 1472-3425 doi: 10.1068/c12172

Abstract/Summary

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.

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Item Type	Article
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Human Environments Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Uncontrolled Keywords	climate change, urban, slums, innovations, networks and partnerships, Mumbai
Publisher	Pion Ltd
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