Climate change presents a planetary threat with scorching implications for life in the streets
of a growingly urbanized Earth. Since the 1990s, a key contribution to tackling this crisis has …

ABSTRACT The New Urban Agenda (NUA) and Agenda 2030's Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) recognise the key role of 'sub-national entities', including cities, in achieving …

This paper sheds light on what city leaders can do about climate change in the context of the
complex extra-territorial challenges they face. We created an original database of those …

Cities are fast becoming actors on issues of transnational import. This is also true in the field
of migration governance where their scope of responsibility has traditionally been perceived …

Transnational networks of sub-national authorities are an established and growing
phenomenon in Europe, where they perform a number of (soft) governance functions for …

The impact of global challenges such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic
manifests most acutely in urban settings, rendering cities essential players on the global …

Cities are playing an increasingly prominent role on the global policy stage, and in the
process have established moreformalised international engagements. However, there is an …

The term 'cities of the Global South'has become an increasingly popular reference in urban
studies and urban development practice. Notwithstanding, the term remains underexplored …

Conceptually grounded, integrated, city-scale and comparative studies remain rare and are
based mostly on meta-reviews of the literature or broad surveys. Conversely, debates about …

This article examines the internal sources for digital transformation at the local level. It
attempts to comprehend a public manager's individual role in the introduction of digital tools …