city networks membership dataset

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<strong>A snapshot of city network membership and environmental collaboration between local governments</strong>
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This dataset represents the most comprehensive available accounting of city government memberships, as of late-2017, in city networks, covering 84 networks and 10,343 cities in 208 countries. This accounts specifically for the number of concurrent memberships, as of late-2017, per city government across all (84) observed TMNs collectively (Column F, “TMN”), and a subset of the number of concurrent memberships specifically within the 31 environmentally-focused TMNs observed (Column G, “ETMN”). The networks represented in each category are listed in Table 1 in the <em>readme</em> file, along with geographic visualizations of the relative number of city concurrent memberships (Figure 1) and network ties formed by network secretariat-member city connections (Figure 2). Data from the TMN column is analyzed in Acuto and Leffel (2020)[1] which describes the full global landscape of memberships, and data from the ETMN column is analyzed in Leffel (2022) [2] which shows an association between urban greenhouse gas emissions reductions and concurrent ETMN memberships. See below for full citations.
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Refer to the dataset's ReadMe file for more information on the content, method and application
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References
[1] Acuto, Michele, and Benjamin Leffel. 2021. “Understanding the Global Ecosystem of City Networks.” <em><strong>Urban Studies</strong></em><strong> </strong>58 (9). 1758–74. doi:10.1177/0042098020929261.
[2] Leffel, Benjamin. 2022. “Toward Global Urban Climate Mitigation: Linking National and Polycentric Systems of Environmental Change.” <em><strong>Sociology of Development</strong></em> 8 (1): 111–37. doi:https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2021.0018.
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