By Jan Beermann
Jan Beermann addresses chronic examine gaps in city weather governance and North-South cooperation. He compares the shape, tactics and results of 4 neighborhood weather defense tasks performed as a part of German-Indian city cooperation and explores the stipulations linked to the good fortune and/or failure in those tasks. The examine concludes that North-South urban partnerships fight to totally appreciate their power to foster international weather safeguard efforts, in particular by way of post-project sustainability, multi-level governance coordination, and mutuality. at the foundation of those findings, functional coverage tips about find out how to maximise the results and expand the scope of city weather cooperation are provided.
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Tjandradewi and Marcotullio (2009) point out that Indian cities share this challenge with cities in most other Asian countries, where support from higher political levels is a prerequisite for establishing city partnerships. Even if partnership actors have access to central and state government institutions and receive approval for joint projects, this process often leads 44 2 State of Research and Key Debates to considerable time delays which places strain on the projects’ budgets (Beermann, 2014).
Another term often used to describe state-led partnerships between cities from the Global North and Global South is “municipal international cooperation” which van Ewijk and Baud (2009) suggest is a more generic term compared to C2C which according to them is limited to North–South cooperation between smaller municipalities. Despite the lack of a widely-recognised definition, existing studies still offer insight into recent developments in state actor-led urban cooperation. Van der Pluijm and Melissen (2007) identify a shift towards more professionalisation and pragmatism in city-to-city exchange.
He argues that many cities are 38 2 State of Research and Key Debates energetic, but disorganized; productive, but still not efficient; promising, but lacking channels to reach application more widely where they are needed. Above all, the barriers of institutions, distant policy and isolated practice can be cleared away by activating one of the most potent but underutilized ressources available to address urban problems: knowledge already invented in or by other cities. , 204). Only a few studies have looked more in-depth at the conditions for success and failure in local governments’ transnational urban cooperation and exchange activities.