000K utf8 1100 2023$c2023-10-13 1500 ger 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20231204-64984 2051 10.14512/rur.1666 3000 Brokow-Loga, Anton 3010 Krüger, Timmo 4000 Potentials of Climate Emergency Declarations for degrowth transformations. The ambivalent stance of German municipalities in conflicts over a post-fossil future$hoekom Verlag [Brokow-Loga, Anton] 4030 München$noekom Verlag 4209 This paper addresses the scope for action by municipalities in a climate emergency and places it in the framework of ecomodern (urban) policy. We analyse the way in which two German ‘climate emergency municipalities’ translate conflicts of post-fossil transformation into concrete political and planning strategies. Although more than 2,200 authorities around the world have already declared a climate emergency, research on the impact of these resolutions on the political orientation of municipalities is very limited. Our research focus is on the (potentially agonistic) treatment of conflicts in planning. We argue that in times of a socio-ecological crisis, success in conflict resolution cannot refer to appeasement and depoliticisation. Instead, we propose a framework of five criteria, based on critical theory on ecomodern strategies, planning processes and degrowth. Thus, this practice-related and explorative paper connects empirical insights from the German cities of Constance and Berlin with an innovative normative framework. The findings tell a complex story of an, at least partial, admission of the failure of previous climate mitigation strategies, a lack of social institutions of limits, an instrumental relation to nature and a disregard for social injustices. The paper discusses how municipalities, in the context of ongoing tensions over the post-fossil transformation in Germany, on the one hand hold on to business-as-usual approaches, but on the other hand also set political impulses for change. 4950 https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.1666$xR$3Volltext$534 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20231204-64984$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00061322 5051 300 5550 Degrowth 5550 Klimanotstand 5550 OA-Publikationsfonds2023 5550 Postwachstum 5550 Postwachstumsstadt 5550 Stadtentwicklung 5550 Wachstumskritik