Aligning climate governance with urban water management

• Verfasst von: Tosun, Jale [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Leopold, Lucas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Aligning climate governance with urban water management
• Titelzusatz: insights from transnational city networks
• Verf.angabe: Jale Tosun and Lucas Leopold
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: 4 April 2019
• Umfang: 16 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 12.04.2019
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Water
• Ort Quelle: Basel : MDPI, 2009
• Jahr Quelle: 2019
• Band/Heft Quelle: 11(2019), 4, Artikel-ID 701, Seite 1-16
• ISSN Quelle: 2073-4441
• DOI: doi:10.3390/w11040701
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: city networks
• Sach-SW: climate change
• Sach-SW: ICLEI
• Sach-SW: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Sach-SW: urban water management
• K10plus-PPN: 1663182639
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

A growing number of cities in different world regions are forming transnational networks in order to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In this study, we are interested in the nexus between climate change and urban water management. How do transnational city networks for climate action perceive urban water management? What kind of activities do they adopt for improving urban water management? How effective are these in practice? This study maps 17 transnational city networks that primarily work on climate governance, assesses whether they formally embrace urban water management as a field of activity, and analyzes the extent to which they influence local climate action regarding water-related issues. Our descriptive analysis reveals that the great majority of transnational city networks has embraced goals related to urban water management, mostly framed from the perspective of adaptation to climate change. However, our in-depth analysis of two frontrunner cities in Germany shows that membership in ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) has only limited influence on the initiation and implementation of water-related policy measures.