Climate governance in the post-industrial city: the urban side of ecological modernisation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ecological modernisation (EM) is probably the most widely adopted approach to climate policy, as evidenced by the Kyoto Protocol Flexible Mechanisms, or by the European Union Emissions Trading System. However, far from being deployed only at national and global scales, EM seems to be deployed also locally, as the growing global phenomenon of cities’ involvement in climate governance suggests. That is what this study wants to verify by focusing on the city of Genoa, Italy, whose climate policy is assessed through a set of four criteria already used by EM scholars: win-win stance, policy integration, decentralisation and smart regulation, technological and institutional innovation. Results show that Genoa’s approach to climate change can be firmly qualified as EM and that this outcome is due as much to elements specific to the municipality as to external influences. However, EM observed in Genoa seems qualitatively different from EM which can be observed within nation-states or some industrial sectors, mainly because it displays a specifically urban character. Thus, the article concludes with the hypothesis that an ‘urban’ EM is emerging, namely an EM that reflects the peculiarities of the governance of post-industrial cities within a global context.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".