The condition of urban climate experimentation

As the trend of urban climate experimentation continues, many accounts now seek to identify how it can be harnessed toward responses sufficient scale and magnitude for crises at hand. The imperative is move beyond experimentation. Yet some authors suggest that this may not so straightforward for, they argue, we increasingly inhabit a condition permanent Taking its cue from premise, article explores where have emerged from. I trace these roots limit points encountered within ecologically modernist governance—the shifting dynamics governing authority, relation between knowledge policy, address indeterminacy, what progress or improvement looks like in climate-changed socio-natural world. Viewed light, experimentation, want suggest, represents significant potentially paradigm-shifting break with established norms practices concerning nature problem. Fundamentally, line thought means neither possible nor even desirable abandon return more centralized, controlled, certain difficulties climate-changing world through paradigm has arisen first place. vital task instead understand politics possibilities progressive just sustainability.