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How to green your city? Boundary challenges and net zero place leadership

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  • Grant Allan
  • Graeme Roy
  • David Waite

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Urban leaders are increasingly seeking to navigate to net zero emissions whilst balancing wider economic and social priorities. Facing the leaders tasked with delivering these ambitions are a set of boundary challenges, including in relation to time, geography, governance and policy. We explore the practical steps leaders are taking to manage these challenges in Scotland’s four largest cities – Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Our contribution identifies that visible city leaders are: driving actions through a fragmented institutional landscape in the absence of formal arrangements; balancing practical with strategic challenges in embedding long-term thinking; and, leveraging external sources, including the use of data, to inform change.

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  • Grant Allan & Graeme Roy & David Waite, 2025. "How to green your city? Boundary challenges and net zero place leadership," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 59(1), pages 2546970-254, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:59:y:2025:i:1:p:2546970
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2025.2546970
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