Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance

Sofie Bouteligier's innovative study examines theories of the network society and global cities from a global ecology perspective. Through direct observation, interviews, and using two types of city networks that have been treated separately in the literature, she discovers the structure and logic pertaining to office networks of environmental non-governmental organizations and environmental consultancy firms.  In doing so, she incisively demonstrates the ways in which cities fulfill the role of strategic sites of global environmental governance, concentrating knowledge, infrastructure, and institutions vital to the function of transnational actors.