A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities

Highlights ► A database analysis reveals urban climate change experimentation as a global trend. ► Experimentation is a recent trend not confined to specific world regions or cities. ► Although experimentation is heterogeneous, energy experiments predominate. ► Multiple actors, often through partnership, intervene in urban climate change governance. ► A characteristic trend of experimentation led by private actors emerges in Asia.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Global Environmental Change

• Publication date

  2013-02-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.GLOENVCHA.2012.07.005PMID 23805029PMCID 3688314
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