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Innovations for Enabling Urban Climate Governance: Evidence from Mumbai

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  • Emily Boyd

    (Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AF, England; and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden)

  • Aditya Ghosh

    (Department of Geography, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, D-69120, Germany)

Abstract

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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  • Emily Boyd & Aditya Ghosh, 2013. "Innovations for Enabling Urban Climate Governance: Evidence from Mumbai," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 31(5), pages 926-945, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:31:y:2013:i:5:p:926-945
    DOI: 10.1068/c12172
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