ABSTRACT
Governing climate change mitigation through dynamic interactions within collaborative municipal networks (CMNs) is an approach to governance that, as we have argued throughout this volume, is emerging in Chinese cities. This approach to governance relies on interactive resource exchange, communication and consensus building among the organisational actors networked within and across cities. To steer through the governing challenges imposed by the complex problem of climate change, this form of governance is embedded in two dimensions of transition. The first is a sociotechnical shift that involves innovation transfers and integration and which is internally driving the second dimension, the transformation of governance practices in response to a complex and cross-sectoral policy problem that requires both coordination and collaboration inside and outside the government arena.
