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Table 3 Key words used for content analysis of the Climate Positive Development Good Practice Guide

From: Understanding how city networks are leveraging climate action: experimentation through C40

Step of the analytical model

Key component of step

Key words for ‘search and find’

Step 1: City experiment

Logics of experiment

- Controlled logics: ‘control’, ‘cause’, ‘effect’, ‘causality’, ‘controlling factors’, ‘high failure allowance’.

- Darwinian logics: ‘variation’, ‘trial’, ‘best practice’, ‘high failure allowance’

- Generative logics: ‘success’, ‘innovation’, ‘new solution’, ‘low failure allowance.

Stage of experiment

‘variation’, ‘selection’, ‘retention’, ‘best practice’

Step 2: How city networks relate to experiments?

Role of city network

‘coordinate’, ‘recognise’, ‘actor’, ‘role’, ‘participation’, ‘networking’, ‘partnership’, ‘C40’

Step 3: Leveraging of a local action into a global network

Output of experiment

‘result’, ‘outcome’, ‘output’, ‘new technology’, ‘new infrastructure’, ‘new policy’, ‘new business practice’, ‘new citizen practice’