ABSTRACT
In this article, we will analyse the interaction between the trans-local action of local governments and the local knowledge orders within climate policy. On par with the constructivist outline of this special issue, we argue that local actors’ orientations and motives for trans-local action are the key to understanding the impact of the trans-local space on local knowledge. We argue that the orientations towards trans-local action, e.g. in municipal networks or EU projects, are incorporated in local knowledge orders, which shape interactions within a specific action arena, in our case climate policy. However, trans-local activities consist of communicative mechanisms that impact the evolution and maintenance of local knowledge orders (see the article by Heinelt and Lamping in this issue).
