Urban Climate Governance Experimentation in Seoul: Science, Politics, or a Little of Both?

Cities are key in urban climate mitigation. Since the early 2000s, a trend of urban climate governance experimentation has been observed in which cities, and especially city governments, are trialing novel governance interventions, processes, and instruments to learn from their development and imple...

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Published in:Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) Calif.), 2021-07, Vol.57 (4), p.1115-1148
Main Authors: van der Heijden, Jeroen, Hong, Seung-Hun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities
Climate action
Climate change mitigation
Experimentation
Experiments
Governance
Local government
Mitigation
Politics
Urban areas
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Summary:Cities are key in urban climate mitigation. Since the early 2000s, a trend of urban climate governance experimentation has been observed in which cities, and especially city governments, are trialing novel governance interventions, processes, and instruments to learn from their development and implementation. This article explores the role of the government of the city of Seoul, South Korea, in a range of local experiments. It particularly focuses on the factors that contribute to the success (or lack thereof) of urban climate governance experimentation. It finds that the city’s government has been successful in developing and trialing some but not all experiments and that the overall results of these are promising in certain areas of city development and use. The article also highlights some less promising results, indicating the fragile nature of urban climate governance experimentation—in both the scientific and political senses of the term.
ISSN:1078-0874
1552-8332
DOI:10.1177/1078087420911207