Bridging silos through governance innovations: the role of the EU cities mission

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 6

Published: Jan. 9, 2025

Cities and local governments are increasingly under pressure to accelerate transformative change in energy climate transitions. To help cities their actions, the European Commission (EC) has established EU Mission, which aims for neutrality by 2030 participating cities. The literature argues that one of main obstacles accelerating decarbonization lies organizational divisions other forms structural silos. One possible ways address these challenges transformation is through governance innovations. Mission a innovation incentivize support transitions In this paper, we critically assess Mission’s framework implementation plan terms its potential gaps addressing different types do so, develop an analytical based on academic outlines silos strategies them. Our results show key documents include several bridge silos, but some less frequently addressed. This particularly case rely political leadership. paper concludes drawing out implications our findings scholarly practice.

Language: Английский

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Embracing the politics of transformation: Policy action as “battle‐settlement events”

Review of Policy Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: July 22, 2024

Abstract Societal transformations for addressing climate change are intensely contested and at risk of resistance backlash to ambitious policy action. But they frequently modeled through heuristics such as S‐curves which abstract from conflicts, assuming increasing returns scale a driver transformations. This is the case even while scholars accept presence political conflict in transformation processes. Within science allied disciplines, notions feedback coalitions have been deployed understand how conflicts may be understood. these approaches gravitating toward an instrumental design impulse that inadvertently downplays conflict. We argue action societal should re‐conceptualized unfolding series battle‐settlement events whereby heated episodic struggles over certain object or issue play out eventually settle ways structure future debates nonetheless remaining indeterminate open challenge reversal. Such approach reflects varied empirical experiences date include both accumulation It also helps explain trajectories discontinuous lurching contrast common images progressive cumulative. illustrate this two cases on change: coal phaseout United Kingdom renewable energy uptake Australia.

Language: Английский

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The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance: Socio-political fragmentation, serendipity of agency, and value articulation strategies

Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 165, P. 104023 - 104023

Published: Feb. 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Transformative partnerships for a better world: Practices, capacities, and opportunities

Earth stewardship., Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 2(2)

Published: March 17, 2025

Abstract Transformations toward sustainable, regenerative, and just futures require fundamental changes that can only be achieved by working in partnership. Partnerships across diverse disciplines perspectives also have the potential to normalize act on a vision of earth stewardship. In 2023, scholars practitioners transformations gathered at biennial Conference explore how build, maintain learn from transformative partnerships for better world. This article offers synthesis based collective sensemaking conference. Drawing conference presentations, discussion forums, session outputs organizer reflections, it takes an appreciative approach identify capacities practices support proposes agenda further research. The frames as processes with six stages: preparing/entering; connecting/relating; cohering/integrating; amplifying/transforming; learning/adapting; releasing/renewing. These stages are loosely sequential each is more prominent particular time but progression through them may not linear. For stage, multiple supporting or identified, drawing contributions. then discusses five priorities research, including to: effectively develop inner needed partnership; decolonize partnerships; make “safe enough” spaces allow agonism, action political struggle; evaluate move building transformation systems.

Language: Английский

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On non-reformist reforms and partial political settlements in degrowth strategy

Ecological Economics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 235, P. 108613 - 108613

Published: April 9, 2025

Language: Английский

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Characterising landscape homogenisation: a qualitative approach based on five case studies

Ecosystems and People, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 21(1)

Published: April 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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The behavioral negotiation perspective can reveal how to navigate discord in sustainability transformations constructively

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 121(47)

Published: Oct. 31, 2024

Giant meteorite impacts during Earth's early history likely had significant effects on life. We studied the surface environment and life of a Paleoarchean impactor ~50 to 200× larger than famous K-Pg impactor. The ...Large must have strongly affected habitability Earth. Rocks Archean Eon record at least 16 major impact events, involving bolides 10 km in diameter. These probably severe, albeit temporary, ...

Language: Английский

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Regional Transition Fields - Exploring institutional dynamics of contestation and entrenchment in an energy transition case in Germany

Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 116, P. 103684 - 103684

Published: July 24, 2024

In the context of regional energy transitions entrenched positions between involved actors are empirically observable but we lack a regionally specific theoretical foundation to grasp and explain them. The study suggests concept 'Regional Transition Fields' (RTF) which encompass all actors, activities organisations in region that share concern for transition. This approach allows consideration both those promote an transition towards more sustainable sources oppose it as part same field. argues that, despite apparent agreement on issue at stake, conflicts tensions arise within field concerning rules, regulations, common reference frames against behaviours judged. framework posits processes adaptation delimitation continually re-shape structure is applied qualitative in-depth case Northern Hesse Germany. Based content analysis semi-structured interviews offers evidence existence field, briefly introduces key actor constellations this illustrates regulative, normative, cultural-cognitive dimensions case. thus contributes conceptual how institutionalisation occurs fields thereby nuanced understanding emergence fields, may inform future studies transitions.

Language: Английский

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Just transition boundaries: Clarifying the meaning of just transition

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 55, P. 100957 - 100957

Published: Dec. 15, 2024

Language: Английский

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Reply to Majer et al.: Negotiating policy action for transformation requires both sociopolitical and behavioral perspectives

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 121(47)

Published: Oct. 31, 2024

Giant meteorite impacts during Earth's early history likely had significant effects on life. We studied the surface environment and life of a Paleoarchean impactor ~50 to 200× larger than famous K-Pg impactor. The ...Large must have strongly affected habitability Earth. Rocks Archean Eon record at least 16 major impact events, involving bolides 10 km in diameter. These probably severe, albeit temporary, ...

Language: Английский

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