C40 Membership in Amsterdam: Who benefits?
City-networks such as ICLEI, the Covenant of Mayors, and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group have rapidly gained traction in the international climate governance regime. Scholars, practitioners and policymakers … Continue reading
Lost and found in translation
One of the most valuable things of research trips is that it makes me reflect on my earlier work. And it makes that have I to sharpen and polish the … Continue reading
Sejong, Korea: the pleasures and perils of a planned city
And so I find myself in Sejong Metropolitan Autonomous City. ‘Where?’, you may ask. For those who never heard of Sejong: it’s the de facto administrative capital city of the … Continue reading
Governments are too conservative in using innovative governance tools
In comparing how governments exactly participate in innovative governance tools for urban sustainability and resilience I realised that their involvement is very conservative. This, I argue, leaves opportunities of such … Continue reading
Voluntary programmes for building retrofits: opportunities, performance and challenges
With apologies for the major gap between the last blog post and this one. I have literally been all over the place since, and am now back in Norwich at … Continue reading
New insights on voluntary environmental programmes
I’m getting more and more excited about the possibilities of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Last week I have analysed a set of 35 cases that I have … Continue reading
Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience: A brief update
The last couple of weeks have been truly exciting. Edward Elgar Publishing has been working really hard to get my book published in October this year. The title of the … Continue reading
Why we should not expect too much from voluntary programmes
Over the last weeks I have analysed my data in further depth. That was pretty exciting to do because it was the first time that I could contrast all the … Continue reading
Benchmarking building environmental performance: What can we learn from LEED?
In my last post I questioned whether Green Star has caused the green building revolution the GBCA claims it has. I conclude that the ‘revolution’ is very much contained … Continue reading
The Green (Star) building revolution? Not so fast!
In 2003, the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) introduced Green Star, a tool that rates the environmental performance of buildings. Green Star is highly comparable with LEED in the … Continue reading
