Futures, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 164, P. 103504 - 103504
Published: Nov. 17, 2024
Language: Английский
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(1)
Published: Aug. 22, 2024
Rapid urbanization and industrialization with their negative repercussions draw attention to the need for urban sustainability. This research built on systems understanding linked resource utilization, environmental effects, people-environment interactions, adaptive management by integrating quantitative modelling of metabolism a qualitative investigation into human responses. A hybrid methodology was applied in typical industrial city Jinchang, China, which exemplified model how complex dynamics link inform sustainability transitions. The study found that Jinchang City had taken an unsustainable trajectory underpinned continuous growth material consumption, whereas potential transitions also observed decoupled outputs, improved efficiency, environment regeneration collectively. challenges cities have been framed terms development lock-in, conceptual institutional constraints, innovation capital deficiencies, governance failure. proposed government-led transformation system integrates multi-level multi-perspective transformations employing discipline insights facilitate involves governance, economic technological innovations, social transformations, implementations, public engagement are essential elements adapting undesirable difficulties exploring locally appropriate strategies. provided theoretical empirical basis along scientific policy implications, contributed developing interdisciplinary knowledge real-world solutions.
Language: Английский
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Futures, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 166, P. 103549 - 103549
Published: Jan. 26, 2025
Language: Английский
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World sustainability series, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 399 - 422
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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Design Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 98, P. 101297 - 101297
Published: March 14, 2025
Language: Английский
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Sustainable Futures, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100553 - 100553
Published: March 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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Environmental Education Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 16
Published: April 9, 2025
Language: Английский
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Futures, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 156, P. 103320 - 103320
Published: Jan. 17, 2024
The future of inner peripheries, suffering a demographic decline (ESPON, 2017) that threatens the survival their relevant environmental and cultural heritage, represents an important challenge for whole Europe. urgency to address some long-lasting problems affecting peripheries (depopulation, population ageing, limited accessibility, economic marginality) has been recognized partially addressed through European national strategies. However, crucial issues must be still addressed: reversing rhetoric as marginal areas, by focusing on potential; strengthening communities' engagement in shaping own future; better addressing complex urban-rural relationships. RI.P.R.O.VA.RE. Project1 developed three-step methodological path trigger development processes based multidisciplinary multiscale approach local communities co-designing visions strategies resilient sustainable development. proposed path, tested areas South Italy, can easily replicated other contexts that, according EU cohesion policy 2021-2017, aim at reducing territorial socio-economic imbalances foster
Language: Английский
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Buildings, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(2), P. 518 - 518
Published: Feb. 14, 2024
The abandonment and deterioration of historic rural buildings in Europe raise significant issues, including hydrogeological risks, the loss productive land, cultural heritage decline. Despite being underestimated, these structures hold potential for activities. Renovating is crucial local communities committed to preserving their heritage, it a more sustainable approach than constructing new buildings. This study explores activities undertaken Interreg IT/AT project “SHELTER” Valbrenta (IT): through participatory involving communities, stakeholders, designers, researchers, an energy concept developed refurbishing abandoned tobacco farm, chosen by community, be alpine hut. Due inability connect city electricity grid, focuses on minimizing consumption envelope refurbishment, efficient heating, domestic hot water systems. Additionally, integration renewable sources, particularly Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), emphasized preserve building’s original appearance. demonstrates feasibility meeting seasonal needs entirely renewables biomass annual requirements.
Language: Английский
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Buildings and Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5(1)
Published: Sept. 27, 2024
How can people imagine ways of achieving desirable energy futures in cities, oriented towards sufficiency? Building on the notion sufficiency understood as avoiding demand while meeting human needs, this paper discusses results seven participatory workshops (n = 154 participants) held Switzerland where new imaginaries around future cities were discussed. The demonstrate that reflect how living, consuming and working could achieve double dividend needs using less energy. Based practices-as-satisfiers, participants collectively discussed synergic satisfiers or changes to practices found lead savings satisfaction multiple needs. However, for be possible, need thought part systems: several would take place at once. Certain practices, such reducing work time, are prefigurative others. Participants reflected planned for, moving from individual change proposed collective changes, considering their interrelated nature. findings show similar forms public participation policy-relevant insights planning, adopting implementing measures cities. Policy relevance While efficiency renewable central many national strategies, policies—involving reductions together with wellbeing—are emerging a key component transition. conducted Swiss citizens provide into organize future. First, policy development must consider goal, means reaching goal. Second, should included debate, they today futures. presented synergic, nature systems needed useful inform debates what come out discussions, namely imagined level sufficiency.
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6
Published: Dec. 11, 2024
In recent years, weather-related extreme events have shown the limits of technical approaches to urban water challenges and highlighted urgent need rethink relationship between cities see as a partner in shaping transformative, climate-safe just futures. However, existing scientific studies depicting future trajectories management struggled make intertwined social ecological dynamics (transformative) adaptation tangible accessible. This study focuses on potential visual communication scenarios stimulate both learning among scientists (during process creating scenarios) (as next step using developed “narrative images”) motivate diverse societal actors engage with complexity sustainable management. Art can overcome barriers concepts touch peoples' inner motivation for preserving sustainably transforming our way that written texts cannot. As sustainability transcend disciplines, this draws methodically an interdisciplinary scenario approach. Three were participatory professionally visualized images” city Hamburg case study. The take place 2050 gradient ranging from coping incremental transformative managing water-adaptation nexus: “Water defensive city,” resilient aware city.” shows innovatively how bring humanities, natural engineering sciences into deliberative dialog, while at same time promoting collective learning. It serve model successful research developing exercises.
Language: Английский
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