Mobilizing Cities towards a Low Carbon Future: Tambourines, Carrots and Sticks

dc.contributor.authorMEEUS, Leonardo
dc.contributor.authorDELARUE, Erik
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-07T11:36:45Z
dc.date.available2011-02-07T11:36:45Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractIn the transition towards a decarbonized energy system, we need city authorities to lead by example as public actors, to govern the actions of the private urban actors as local policy makers, and to conceive and manage the implementation of an integrated approach as coordinators, which we introduce in this paper as three levels of city smartness. Local governments however have institutional disincentives to act, and if they do act, they are confronted with urban actors that are reluctant to follow. This paper analyzes how city pioneers in Europe have been able to overcome these disincentives thanks to a combination of local circumstances and interventions by higher levels of government. We categorize the state of the art instruments that have been used by higher levels of government into “tambourines”, “carrots”, and “sticks”, and reflect on how the state of the art could be improved.en
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dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/15638
dc.language.isoenen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/78438:193903791
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI RSCASen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2011/04en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFlorence School of Regulationen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEnergyen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectCitiesen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleMobilizing Cities towards a Low Carbon Future: Tambourines, Carrots and Sticksen
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