This article addresses the question of where urban low-carbon energy transitions are
governed. A challenge is that urban governance is not simply urban, but a complex …

This paper explores how the European Commission promotes the concept of Sustainable
Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) among European cities. Despite the strong uptake of the …

The involvement of subnational actors in EU politics has become an increasingly recognized
facet of European integration. However, this highlights an interesting puzzle: subnational …

EU environmental policies such as the Ambient Air Quality Directive 2008/50 are highly
relevant in this age of the looming climate crisis and interconnected sustainable transitions …

One of the features of local-level Europeanization has been the emergence of transnational
networking (TN) undertaken by subnational authorities (SNAs). This activity, which received …

The European Union (EU) has long discursively positioned itself as a global frontrunner for
sustainability and climate protection. Nevertheless, substantive progress toward …

Résumé L'environnement constitue aujourd'hui un enjeu structurant pour l'action publique
urbaine. Souvent présentées comme des freins au renforcement des logiques …

This research briefing provides a timely assessment of European Union (EU) intervention in
the urban mobility policy field, by examining the relationship between forms of policy design …

Since the early 2000s, the Europeanization of metropolitan regions from below takes place
in a political process with variable geometry and differential intensity. While 'the …

Cities in EU-member states increasingly involve governmental and non-governmental
stakeholders in develo** strategic urban mobility plans to increase the legitimacy of …