What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide.
The National Climate Initiative (NKI) in Germany provides a strong incentive for local governments to apply for funding to engage in climate protection activities. Yet, the latest evaluation of the NKI confirms that there is a great disparity in the distribution of funding across regions. Taking thi...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 894 - 920 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=173552503&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 173552503 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1541132X MJJ jtl: Review of Policy Research issn: 1541132X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov2023 vid: 40 iid: 6 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 173552503 10.1111/ropr.12528 ppf: 894 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 927KB tig: atl: What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide. aug: au: Zeigermann, Ulrike Kammerer, Marlene Böcher, Michael affil: Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Institute for Political Science, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Faculty of Humanities, Institute for Social Sciences, Otto‐von‐Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany su: Germany Rural-urban differences Cities & towns Human settlements Climate change mitigation Structured financial settlements Government policy on climate change sug: subj: Rural-urban differences Cities & towns Human settlements Germany Climate change mitigation Structured financial settlements Government policy on climate change keyword: climate change mitigation counties local politics regional governance rural areas Alemania condados gobernanza regional mitigación del cambio climático Política local zonas rurales 农村地区 区域治理 县 地方政治 德国 气候变化缓解 climate change mitigation counties local politics regional governance rural areas Alemania condados gobernanza regional mitigación del cambio climático Política local zonas rurales 农村地区 区域治理 县 地方政治 德国 气候变化缓解 ab: The National Climate Initiative (NKI) in Germany provides a strong incentive for local governments to apply for funding to engage in climate protection activities. Yet, the latest evaluation of the NKI confirms that there is a great disparity in the distribution of funding across regions. Taking this regional fragmentation as a starting point, we ask the following: How can we explain disparity in the amount of funding across counties and cities? We draw on climate policy literature pointing to the role of socioeconomic and political determinants and the settlement structure to answer this question. We study all 400 cities and counties to test hypotheses concerning disparity in the likelihood and amount of climate funding, using data from the German Ministry for the Environment and further regional statistics. Running different multilevel regression models, we show that local climate funding is more likely in cities and more urbanized counties than in rural counties with less population and oftentimes also with less young and educated people. We argue that despite the increasing number of local governments getting active in climate protection in Germany, there is important unused potential for climate change mitigation in rural counties. Therefore, we conclude by proposing a new research agenda focusing on climate change mitigation in rural areas. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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