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DOI	10.1177/2399654418784949
	Urban configurations of carbon neutrality: Insights from the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance
	Tozer L.; Klenk N.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	23996544
起始页码	539
结束页码	557
卷号	37 期号:3
英文摘要	This paper examines configurations of carbon neutrality in the building and energy sector as expressed in the urban governance documents of the members of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA). ‘Carbon neutrality’ is a mutable idea, which makes it unclear what kinds of future urban systems are imagined. As self-identified pioneers of deep decarbonization, the CNCA members are constructing ideas about what carbon neutral means and how urban systems should be changed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, climate governance policy documents provide a window to understand how these carbon neutral imaginaries are being constructed. The analysis draws on discourse analysis and textual network analysis to unpack the sociotechnical configurations that are planned to be mobilized to constitute carbon neutral built environments. Concept map visualizations are used to scrutinize planned configurations of objects (e.g. solar photovoltaics, district energy and energy efficiency technology) and policy instruments (e.g. energy use benchmarking and urban planning tools). The analysis shows three key building and energy configurations: (1) The District Energy City, (2) The Zero Net Energy City and (3) The Natural Gas Transition City. Furthermore, the findings demonstrate that urban imaginaries of carbon neutrality are incorporating complex configurations of socio-technical objects while, at the same time, distinct socio-technical configurations are being favoured in individual places. These configurations inform socio-technical imaginaries that will continue to drive policy outcomes over time. © The Author(s) 2018.
英文关键词	Carbon neutral; cities; climate change; governance; mitigation
scopus关键词	carbon emission; climate change; conceptual framework; emission control; environmental policy; governance approach; greenhouse gas; urban area
来源期刊	Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/176201
作者单位	Durham University, United Kingdom; University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tozer L.,Klenk N.. Urban configurations of carbon neutrality: Insights from the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance[J],2019,37(3).
APA	Tozer L.,&Klenk N..(2019).Urban configurations of carbon neutrality: Insights from the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance.Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space,37(3).
MLA	Tozer L.,et al."Urban configurations of carbon neutrality: Insights from the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance".Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 37.3(2019).