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  1. Accelerating global city commitments and actions on climate change

    Article • Energy and Climate Change, December 2026, Elsevier

    Benjamin Leffel

  2. Explaining policy teaching versus learning in environmental transnational municipal networks: The case of the Kitakyushu Initiative

    Article • Journal of Urban Affairs, October 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Benjamin Leffel

  3. Destabilized growth in world-city formation: Comparing Hong Kong and Shanghai

    Article • Journal of Urban Affairs, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Benjamin Leffel

  4. Publisher Correction: What three decades of city networks tell us about city diplomacy’s potential for climate action

    Article • Nature Cities, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Leffel

  5. What three decades of city networks tell us about city diplomacy’s potential for climate action

    Article • Nature Cities, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Leffel

  6. Can transnational municipal networks mitigate the carbon pollution of the world’s power plants?: an empirical analysis

    Article • npj Climate Action, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Leffel

  7. Divergence of the world city system from national economies

    Article • Global Networks, October 2022, Wiley

    Benjamin Leffel

  8. Metropolitan air pollution abatement and industrial growth: Global urban panel analysis of PM10, PM2.5, NO2and SO2

    Article • Environmental Sociology, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Benjamin Leffel

  9. Climate finance governance: Fit for purpose?

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, May 2021, Wiley

    Benjamin Leffel

  10. Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks

    Article • Urban Studies, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Benjamin Leffel

  11. Marine Protection as Polycentric Governance: The PEMSEA Network of Local Governments

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Leffel

  12. Theorizing City Diplomacy in a World Society

    Article • The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, November 2018, Brill

    Benjamin Leffel

  13. Economic Power Foundations of Cities in Global Governance

    Article • Global Society, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michele Acuto, Benjamin Leffel

  14. Urban Sustainability and Industrial Migration

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Benjamin Leffel