LIST OF WORKSHOPS

The recently published IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C “identifies cities and urban areas as one of four critical global systems that can accelerate and upscale climate action, while recognizing this will require major transitions in how both mitigation and adaptation are undertaken” (IPCC 2018: 6). (Global) cities are increasingly seen as crucial actors of sustainability and resilience in view of climate related challenges, not least because of the reluctance of national governments to firmly invest in comprehensive, ambitious and transformative climate change policies (Ospina, Kersh & Smith, 2012; Dobson, 2016; Romero-Lankao et al., 2018; Barber, 2018).

However, even though all cities are affected in similar ways by climate change and extreme weather events, the general conditions and, consequently, vulnerabilities and adaptation capacities of cities, megacities or city regions vary widely between countries of the Global North and Global South, as the issues of differential impacts on different groups and double- exposure remains a largely unexplored terrain by applied policies too (O’Brien et al., 2004; Brien and Leichenko, 2008). It has become a commonplace in the climate debate to argue that the countries, societies and cities which have contributed the least to climate change, are the most vulnerable, the most impacted, and the least equipped and with limited capacities to withstand and adapt to these menacing changes (Hansjürgens & Heinrichs, 2014; Dawson, 2017). Nonetheless, over the last 10 years the astounding acceleration of climate variability-related events is prompting a revision of the debate between catastrophists and gradualists on new conceptual and policy grounds (Swyngedouw, 2010; Urry, 2011; Beck, 2017).

In this workshop we propose to look at both, northern and southern metropolises, and their strategies to cope with the looming threats of the climate crisis, giving emphasis on emerging political patterns, on the procedural and institutional measures and practices aiming to overcome the hardly sustainable prevailing urban development processes. Whereas the current literature about the role of the local and regional scale for climate governance and policy is primordially focusing on subnational government’s role in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Bernauer & Schaffer, 2014), based on the assumption that the announced critical changes are already happening, and the effects of global warming “are [already] unfolding at rapid speed” (Lövbrand, 2019: 261), our main attention in this workshop will be given to potential strategies concerning adaptative and anticipatory governance (Romero-Lankao et al., 2014; Boyd, 2015) in view of the enhanced vulnerability of the metropolises of the Global South as well as the peripheries of northern metropolises.

Whereas in the Global North the climate debate is giving emphasis mainly on “deep decarbonization for sustainable development” (Fuss, 2019: 76), on how cities could contribute to the reduction of GHG emissions, there are still more basic urban matters in the Global South that need attention, above all concerning urban services and infrastructure in the field of water, sanitation and waste, but also related to poor housing conditions, transportation, public health and education and organized crime, all essential demands for improving urban resilience in times of climate change.

With this workshop we like to contribute to filling some of the important gaps in the international climate change related public policy and urban governance literature, inviting papers aiming to respond to some of the following guiding questions:

· What transformative public policies are on the way in the global metropolises which potentially go beyond mere incremental and fragmented action promoting “fundamental shifts in the ways in which economies and societies are organized and operate” (Bulkeley, 2013: 6)?

· How do the metropolises face the challenge of managing the urban commons, particularly ecosystem services like water, food, and energy, in the context of increasing climate related scarcity?

· Do climate change urge city governments to adopt similar mitigation and adaptation policies, or are their different characteristic political and institutional patterns in the metropolises of the Global South and the Global North?

· Are there signs of “regenerative approaches” able to overcome the “uninspiring message of scarcity and sacrifice” inherent to most current sustainability approaches and with “potential to drive ethical, equitable and inclusive transformations to sustainability” (O’Brien, 2019: 214)?

· How do city governments manage to mobilize civil society and citizens for mitigation and adaptation to climate change?

· Is there any evidence of contestatory movements and practices able to counter the overall tendency towards depoliticization and technocraticization of environmental and climate governance and to revitalize the political in planning and governance (Eraydin & Frey, 2019)?

Whereas the current global agenda on urban sustainability and climate change is shaped and dominated by scholars from the Global North (Nagendra et al. 2018), and consequently urban development strategies in the Global South have typically followed blueprints and standard solutions from northern countries and international development agencies (Lampis, 2013), frequently contributing to environmental degradation, undermining actively local control and capacity, and suppressing alternative development paths in accordance with local conditions and potentialities (Korten, 2006), this workshop aims at taking into consideration issues related to socio-ecological justice and social inclusiveness, and at exploring alternative, situated Global South and Global North-specific approaches to urban sustainable development from a governance and policy perspective (Lawhon et al, 2017) in an already “climate-changed world” (Lövbrand, 2019), bringing these approaches together in a reflective manner.

Therefore, we like to invite scholars from the Global South and Global North to present proposals of theoretical approaches and empirical studies on climate policies related to large metropolises from a politics and public policy perspective. We definitely welcome comparative South-North analysis, but also specific South or North-focused papers, singular or multiple case studies, being the comparative perspective adopted during the workshop discussions with the expectation of a mutual fruitful dialog on the possibilities and restrictions of transformative climate policies.

Thus, the workshop intends to bring together papers involving:

·        Theories and concepts on environmental governance and climate policy with a focus on the South-North divide/challenge, including theoretical concerns related to adaptive/anticipatory governance, ecological democracy, participation, (environmental) policy analysis, social inclusion, social and environmental justice.

·        Methodological approaches on comparative studies in the field of climate policy analysis in large metropolises

·        Case studies and comparative studies (South-South, North-North or South- North) on innovative climate policy and governance experiences in large metropolises.

During the workshop each paper will be critically analysed by one of the other participants of the workshop as responsible discussant and receive contributions by the other workshop participants for future publication. Our expectation is that as a result of the workshop the papers could be published in an edited book or a special issue of a highly ranked international journal.

References

Barber, B. R. (2017). Cool cities. Urban sovereignty and the fix for global warming. New Haven, London: Yale University Press.

Dawson, A. (2017). Extreme cities. The peril and promise of urban life in the age of climate change. London, New York: Verso.

Bernauer, T. & Schaffer, L.M. (2014). Climate change governance. In: Levi-Faur, D. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, paperback edition, p. 441-454.

Boyd, E. et al. (2015). Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience. AMBIO, 44 (Suppl. 1), S149–S161.

Bulkeley, H. (2013). Cities and Climate Change. New York: Routledge.

Eraydin, A.; Frey, K. (Eds., 2019). Politics and conflict in governance and planning: theory and practice. New York: Routledge.

Fuss, S. (2019). Implications of deep decarbonization for sustainable development. In: Meadowcroft, J. et al. What next for sustainable development? Our common future at thirty. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 76-95.

Hansjürgens, B. & Heinrichs, D. (2014). Megacities and climate change: early adapters, mainstream adapters and capacities. In: Kraas, F. et al. (eds.). Megacities: Our Global Urban Future. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer.

Korten, D.C. (2006). The great turning: From empire to earth community. Bloomfield, San Francisco: Kumarian Press, Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Lampis, A. (2013) ‘La adaptación al cambio climático: El reto de las dobles agendas’, in Postigo, J. (ed.) Cambio climático, movimientos sociales y política pública. Santiago de Chile: CLACSO

Lawhon, M.; Nilsson, D. Silver, J.; Ernstson, H. & Lwasa, S. (2017). Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations. Urban Studies, 55 (4): 720 – 732.

Lövbrand, E. (2019). Beyond limits: making policy in a climate-changed world. In: Meadowcroft, J. et al. What next for sustainable development? Our common future at thirty. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 261-277.

Nagendra, H.; Bai, X.; Brondizio, E.S. & Lwasa, S. (2018). The urban South and the predicament of global sustainability. Nature Sustainability, v.1, 341-349.

O’Brien, K. et al. (2004) ‘Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: climate change and globalization in India’, Global Environmental Change, 14(4), pp. 303–313. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2004.01.001.

O’Brien, K. O. and Leichenko, R. (2008) ‘Human security, vulnerability, and sustainable adaptation’, Human Development Report, New York: United Nations Development Programme.

O’Brian, K. (2019). Taking Climate Change and Transformations to Sustainability Seriously. In: Meadowcroft, J. et al. What next for sustainable development? Our common future at thirty. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 200-218.

Ospina, S.M.; Kersh, R. & Smith, H.J.M. (2012). Cities as mew institutional conduits for public diplomacy. Public Administration Review, 73(1), pp. 211-213.

Romero-Lankao, P. et al. (2014) ‘Scale, urban risk and adaptation capacity in neighborhoods of Latin American cities’, Habitat International, 42. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.12.008.

Romero-Lankao, et al. (2018). Governance and Policy. In Rosenzweig, C., Solecki, W., Romero-Lankao, P., Mehrotra, S., Dhakal, S. and Ali, S., (eds). Cities and Climate Change, Second Assessment Report of the of the Urban Climate Change Research Network. University of Cambridge Press, 585-606.

Swyngedouw, E. Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change. Theory, Culture & Society, 27(2-3), 213-232, 2010.

Urry, J. (2011) Climate change and society. 1st edn. Edited by A. L. Epstein. Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press.

The recently published IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C “identifies cities and urban areas as one of four critical global systems that can accelerate and upscale climate action, while recognizing this will require major transitions in how both mitigation and adaptation are undertaken”. (Global) cities are increasingly seen as crucial actors of sustainability and resilience in view of climate related challenges, not least because of the reluctance of national governments to firmly invest in comprehensive, ambitious and transformative climate change policies.

This workshop on Climate Change as a Politics and Public Policy Challenge for Large Metropolises: A South-North Perspective starts from the assumption that, even though all cities are affected in similar ways by climate change and extreme weather events, the general conditions and, consequently, vulnerabilities and adaptation capacities of cities, megacities or city regions vary widely between countries of the Global North and Global South.

In this workshop we propose to look at both, northern and southern metropolises, and their strategies to cope with the looming threats of the climate crisis, giving emphasis on emerging political patterns, on the procedural and institutional measures and practices aiming to overcome the hardly sustainable prevailing urban development processes. Our main attention will be given to potential strategies concerning adaptative and anticipatory governance in view of the enhanced vulnerability of the metropolises of the Global South and North as well as their peripheries.

Therefore, we like to invite scholars from the Global South and Global North to present proposals of theoretical approaches and empirical studies on climate policies related to large metropolises from a politics and public policy perspective. We welcome comparative South-North analysis, but also specific South or North-focused papers, singular or multiple case studies, being the comparative perspective adopted during the workshop discussions with the expectation of a mutual fruitful dialog on the possibilities and restrictions of transformative climate policies.

Thus, the workshop intends to bring together papers involving:

· Theories and concepts on environmental governance and climate policy with a focus on the South-North divide/challenge, including theoretical concerns related to adaptive/anticipatory governance, ecological democracy, participation, (environmental) policy analysis, social inclusion, social and environmental justice.

· Methodological approaches on comparative studies in the field of climate policy analysis in large metropolises

· Case studies and comparative studies (South-South, North-North or South- North) on innovative climate policy and governance experiences in large metropolises.

During the workshop each paper will be critically analysed by one of the other participants of the workshop as responsible discussant and receive contributions by the other workshop participants for future publication. Our expectation is that as a result of the workshop the papers could be published in an edited book or a special issue of a highly ranked international journal.

This workshop starts from the assumption that, even though all cities are affected in similar ways by climate change and extreme weather events, the general conditions and, consequently, vulnerabilities and adaptation capacities of cities, megacities or city regions vary widely between countries of the Global North and Global South.

In this workshop we propose to look at both, northern and southern metropolises, and their strategies to cope with the looming threats of the climate crisis, giving emphasis on emerging political patterns, on the procedural and institutional measures and practices aiming to overcome the hardly sustainable prevailing urban development processes. Our main attention will be given to potential strategies concerning adaptative and anticipatory governance in view of the enhanced vulnerability of the metropolises of the Global South and North as well as their peripheries.

Therefore, we like to invite scholars from the Global South and Global North to present proposals of theoretical approaches and empirical studies on climate policies related to large metropolises from a politics and public policy perspective. We welcome comparative South-North analysis, but also specific South or North-focused papers, singular or multiple case studies, being the comparative perspective adopted during the workshop discussions with the expectation of a mutual fruitful dialog on the possibilities and restrictions of transformative climate policies.

Thus, the workshop intends to bring together papers involving:

· Theories and concepts on environmental governance and climate policy with a focus on the South-North divide/challenge, including theoretical concerns related to adaptive/anticipatory governance, ecological democracy, participation, (environmental) policy analysis, social inclusion, social and environmental justice.

· Methodological approaches on comparative studies in the field of climate policy analysis in large metropolises

· Case studies and comparative studies (South-South, North-North or South- North) on innovative climate policy and governance experiences in large metropolises.

Klaus Frey is Professor of the Federal University of the ABC, Brazil, at the Postgraduate Programs in Territorial Planning and Management as well as in Public Policies. The latter he coordinated from 2013 to 2017. He is a researcher at the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPQ) and was visiting Professor at the Master in Urban Management at University Unipiloto of Colombia, and at the Postgraduate Program "Programming and Management of the Political and the Social Services" at University Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Current research projects: Local autonomy and power, and public policy making: the case of the ABC region, Brazil (CNPq research grant 427682/2016-9, project coordinator); Knowledge and capacity building in the field of planning and governance for metropolitan regions in a context of socioenvironmental challenges and climate change (international cooperation project with Universities of Duisburg and Dortmund, Germany; DAAD/FAPESP grant 2019/06536-6, project coordinator); Environmental Governance in the Paulista Macrometropolis in view of climate change (FAPESP research grant 2015/03804-9, principal investigator).

Recent Publications:

Ayda E. & Frey, K. (eds., 2019) Politics and conflict in governance and planning: theory and practice. New York / London: Routledge.

Frey, K. (2019). Global City Region. In: Orum, Anthony M. (Org.). The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.

Frey, K. & Ramírez, D. (2019). Multi-level network governance of disaster risks: the case of the Metropolitan Region of the Aburra Valley (Medellin, Colombia), Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 62:3, 424-445.

Andrea Lampis holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since October 2018 Andrea is a FAPESP research fellow (FAPESP research grant 2018/17626-3) at the Institute of Energy and Environment of the University of São Paulo where he is researching on ‘Energy Governance in the Context of the Paulista Macro-metropolis’. He previously was an associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the National University of Colombia (2012 – present), which he also directed between 2016 and 2018. During the 2014-2018 he also was the director and editor of the Revista Colombiana de Sociología, which he positioned in Scopus and Scielo. Since 2013 he co-coordinates the research group Global Environmental Change, Territory and Environmental Policy of the Latin-American Research Council (CLACSO).

Recent Publications:

Lampis, A.; Caicedo, J. D. P. Presentación del Dossier Cambio Climático: Territorios e Instituciones. CUADERNOS DE GEOGRAFÌA, v. 27, p. 225, 2018

Lampis, A. Concepts, Connections, and Disruptions for Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation. In: Ilan Kelman; Jessica Mercer; JC Gaillard. (Org.). The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation. London: Routledge, 2017.

Lampis, A. Lost in translation: Social protection and the search for security in Bogotá, Colombia. In: Allen, A.; Lampis, A.; Swilling, M. (Org.). Untamed Urbanisms. 1ed.London: Routledge, 2015;