Governance, Intermediaries, and the Politics of Urban Environmental Innovation

Abstract

This panel examines the governance architectures through which urban environmental interventions are designed, mediated, and scaled. Focusing on urban experiments, policy laboratories, and adaptation initiatives, the papers explore how intermediaries, policy entrepreneurs, and institutional capacities shape the social consequences of environmental innovation. Rather than treating cities as neutral laboratories, the panel highlights the political and organizational processes that determine who participates in experiments, whose knowledge counts, and how innovations travel across cities and governance levels. Collectively, the contributions reveal how uneven institutional capacity, mediation practices, and power relations can turn environmental innovation into either a mechanism for inclusion or a source of new inequalities

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