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Central government ambitions and local commitment: climate mitigation initiatives in four municipalities in Norway and Sweden

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Summary, in English

This comparison of the effects of national approaches to encouraging local climate mitigation initiatives in four municipalities in Norway and Sweden suggests that the development of such initiatives depend not only on the comprehensiveness and ambitions of central government efforts, but more crucially on characteristics of the targeted municipalities. We argue that local coalitions of committed individuals forming implementation structures of varying cohesiveness are important for understanding variations in the effects of government programmes on the development of local mitigation initiatives.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

211-228

Publication/Series

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volume

55

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Energy Systems

Keywords

  • climate policy
  • mitigation
  • municipalities
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • implementation structures

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1360-0559