Identifying the “Usual Suspects”: Assessing Patterns of Representation in Local Environmental Initiatives

Pub Date : 2016-06-21 DOI:10.12924/CIS2016.04020001
P. Fenton, Henner Busch
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An increasing body of literature explores the role of transnational municipal networks (TMNs) in governing sustainable development. As associations, one key task of TMNs is to represent their members through production and dissemination of information and knowledge concerning municipal action for sustainable development. Case studies, often emphasising best practice, are used by many TMNs to fulfil this task. Nevertheless, despite strong scrutiny concerning the use of case studies in “policy mobilities” research, there have been limited attempts to quantify the ways in which TMNs present and disseminate case studies and, by doing so, generate trends of presence and absence in literature on sustainable development. Assessing patterns of representation for continents, countries, municipalities and themes across nine international case study collections published by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability since 1991, this study responds to this research gap and identifies the presence of “usual suspects” in the ICLEI case study collections, along with notable absentees. By doing so, the study contributes to policy mobilities research and literature on TMNs, by encouraging reflection and further research concerning the representation patterns influencing which municipalities and what topics are presented in discourses on sustainable development.
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识别“通常的嫌疑人”:评估地方环境倡议的代表模式
越来越多的文献探讨了跨国城市网络(TMNs)在治理可持续发展中的作用。作为协会,都市网络的一项关键任务是通过制作和传播有关可持续发展市政行动的信息和知识来代表其成员。许多tmn使用案例研究来完成这项任务,案例研究通常强调最佳实践。然而,尽管对在“政策流动性”研究中使用个案研究进行了严格的审查,但很少有人尝试量化研究网络提出和传播个案研究的方式,并以此产生关于可持续发展的文献中存在和不存在的趋势。本研究评估了ICLEI -地方政府可持续发展自1991年以来出版的9个国际案例研究集中的大陆、国家、城市和主题的代表性模式,回应了这一研究空白,并确定了ICLEI案例研究集中存在的“通常嫌疑人”,以及值得注意的缺席者。通过这样做,这项研究有助于政策流动性研究和关于城市管理网络的文献,鼓励反思和进一步研究影响哪些城市的代表性模式以及在关于可持续发展的论述中提出哪些主题。
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