How to make them walk the talk: governing the implementation of energy and climate policies into local practices
Urban policy mobility has become a lively field of research in recent years. One important argument has been that policies do not travel from place to place unmodified, but are transformed in the process of their implementation. Drawing on a research project on adaptations of climate protection poli...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/72/123/2017/gh-72-123-2017.pdf |
| Summary: | Urban policy mobility has become a lively field of research in recent years.
One important argument has been that policies do not travel from place to
place unmodified, but are transformed in the process of their
implementation. Drawing on a research project on adaptations of climate
protection policies in German cities we elaborate how discourse studies and
work on governmentality can be brought into resonance with the policy
mobility debate. We suggest that these theoretical concepts can be used to
explain why, despite the growing number of laws and recommendations in this
context, local adaptations of climate policies vary significantly between
different cities. We argue that the concept of governmentality is
particularly well suited to grasping the discrepancies between discursively
produced guidelines and actual planning practices and to conceptualising these
planning practices as effects of competing and often conflicting
technologies of government. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |