Territorializing the Climate Policy Agenda in Intermediate Cities of the Andean Region

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article explores how the climate policy agenda gets territorialized in four intermediate cities of the Andean Region: Pasto (Colombia), Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas (Ecuador), Iquitos (Peru), and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia). We investigate processes of coercion, competition, emulation and learning to argue that fast-paced diffusion of the climate agenda produces a bricolage of instruments as an attempt to comply, repair, adjust, or experiment with the multi-scale policy framework. The study emphasizes the importance of institutional frameworks, planning instruments, climate regulations and contextualized practices that condition climate action locally.