Collaborative Governance for Low-Carbon and Resilient Cities

There is a pressing need to improve the resource sustainability of cities and their resilience to hazards. Increasingly, governments seek to achieve such improvement by engaging directly with businesses and citizens. Whilst this collaborative city governance holds a promise for transforming resource use and resilience of cities, little is known about its performance benefits and effectiveness. The project addresses this knowledge gap through a systematic empirical analysis of a series of collaborations in four global cities. Results will help to refine theories of collaborative governance and will provide policymakers and practitioners with lessons on how to improve sustainability and resilience of cities in Australia and elsewhere. 

The research program is based at the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. It is funded through a three-year DECRA Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (grant number DE15100511).