Print Email Facebook Twitter Engaging Cities Title Engaging Cities: Overcoming the Barriers to Climate Action Author Boehnke, Richard (TU Delft Applied Sciences) Contributor Blok, K. (mentor) Hoppe, T. (graduation committee) Brezet, J.C. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Electrical Engineering | Sustainable Energy Technology Date 2017-08-29 Abstract National and international attention, both academic and otherwise, to local climate actions and policy usually focuses on large/mega-cities. However, given current progress, this represents an oversight when approaching the energy transition – in particular, due to the large proportion of the urban population living in cities smaller than 500,000 people. As a result, the main question of this study is: What are good practices for Dutch SMCs with populations between 50,000-250,000 and are there demonstrable effects linking them to achieving climate targets? In this thesis, I analyzed good practices to achieve climate mitigation targets from 13 Dutch municipalities and assessed what correlations are possible linking good practice to emissions reductions using both quantitative and qualitative indicators. I found that there are several good practices available to local governments implemented. Furthermore, the governance mode of these good practices reflected mainly ‘governing by enabling’, however it was found that within municipal climate documents that other forms of governance were also prevalent and widely used. Finally, it was found that current monitoring data is insufficient to link those implemented good practices to municipal emissions reductions. Subject Local Climate ActionClimate MitigationGood Practice To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:720b2114-6b68-4610-95fa-e749ff9f0a7a Embargo date 2017-11-15 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2017 Richard Boehnke Files PDF Richard_Boehnke_Master_Thesis.pdf 4.34 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:720b2114-6b68-4610-95fa-e749ff9f0a7a/datastream/OBJ/view