Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance - Spaces of Innovation, Places of Leadership

Sofie Bouteligier's innovative study examines theories of the network society and global cities from a global ecology perspective. Through direct observation, interviews, and using two types of city networks that have been treated separately in the literature, she discovers the structure and logic pertaining to office networks of environmental non-governmental organizations and environmental consultancy firms. In doing so, she incisively demonstrates the ways in which cities fulfill the role of strategic sites of global environmental governance, concentrating knowledge, infrastructure, and institutions vital to the function of transnational actors.

List of contents

1: Introduction. 2: City Networks for Global Environmental Governance. 3: Networks, Global Cities, and Environmental Flows. 4: Methodology. 5: City Networks and Innovative Global Environmental Governance. 6: City Networks and Conventional Global Environmental Governance. 7: Conclusion: A Networked Urban World as Vehicle for Environmental Sustainability

About the author

Sofie Bouteligier conducted her PhD research at the Global Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development Research Group of Kuleuven, Belgium. Currently, she is a postdoc researcher at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University and an associate fellow of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. Her research focuses on city networks for global environmental governance and the interactions between multinational private companies and cities in the search for sustainable urban futures.

Product details

• Authors: Sofie Bouteligier, Sofie (Wageningen University Bouteligier, Bouteligier Sofie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2014
• EAN: 9781138833210
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83321-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cities and Global Governance
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Urban & municipal planning, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Central / national / federal government policies, Environmental policy & protocols, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Central government policies, Environmental policy and protocols