Purpose – This paper aims to consider how climate change performance is measured and accounted for within the performance framework for local authority areas in England adopted in 2008. It critically evaluates the design of two mitigation and one adaptation indicators that are most relevant to...

Purpose – This paper aims to consider how climate change performance is measured and accounted for within the performance framework for local authority areas in England adopted in 2008. It critically evaluates the design of two mitigation and one adaptation indicators that are most relevant to...

Challenged by criticisms of NPM-based performance measurement, and starting from a performativist stance, we reconceptualize performance measurement as a relational enactment. Rather than as a mere human-based practice of representation, we conceive of performance measurement as a set of...