城市气候韧性的官僚生活

The bureaucratic life of urban climate resilience

Urban Studies · 2025
被引 2
ABS 3

中文导读

这篇评论呼吁城市学者关注城市气候韧性建设中的行政过程,提出用行动者网络理论整合人类与非人类行动者,并通过德国奥格斯堡的民族志研究揭示官僚如何塑造城市未来。

Abstract

With this commentary, we invite urban scholars to join us in exploring the bureaucratic life of urban climate resilience. Under this heading, we call for research into the intricate and often unpredictable processes of urban governance, from the formulation of general mitigation and adaptation goals to the implementation of concrete measures on the ground. While previous research on urban governance has focused primarily on political negotiations and alliance-building beforehand and on published plans after they are passed, we propose to put emphasis on the non-linear dynamics inherent in decision-making and implementation processes within city administrations. In this context, this commentary has two objectives: (1) we provide arguments for the need to (re-)focus attention on administrative processes in urban climate resilience and (2) we present a perspective that can be used to effectively study said processes. In contrast to widely used actor-oriented perspectives, our approach draws on insights from actor–network theory and integrates human and non-human actors to be studied. We illustrate our approach through an ethnographic study in the municipality of Augsburg, Germany, which serves to uncover the multiple processes of translation inherent in building urban climate resilience and to provide insights into the ways how bureaucrats shape and mediate the future of contemporary cities.

城市治理气候变化适应官僚制行动者网络理论城市规划