Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance: Emerging co-production capacities in three European cities

Environmental Science & Policy, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 152, С. 103652 - 103652

Опубликована: Дек. 16, 2023

This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the analyses policy officers manifest capacities for in three European cities – Genk (Belgium), Glasgow (United Kingdom) Poznań (Poland) while experimenting with develop scale Co-production include conditions activities (1) create space co-production, (2) safeguard inclusive legitimate (3) link processes results contexts. The demonstrate have mobilised created resources, skills, institutional support partnerships implement diverse co-produce While mark starting changes urban governance, engaging embedding causes tensions between dynamic diffuse nature of existing formal settings processes. Lessons strengthening embed solutions planning, delivery stewardship are: tailor-made approach meaningfully engage actors place-based settings, open-ended long-term benefits, new relations roles sustain co-production.

Язык: Английский

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Amplifying climate resilience: The impact of social protection, social cohesion, and social capital on public support for climate change action

Sustainable Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 10(1)

Опубликована: Июнь 2, 2024

Traditional climate action strategies often overlook the critical role of social cohesion. This study explores how protection programs and community unity can bolster resilience public support for decarbonization efforts. The adopted a systematic methodology that employed quantitative (scientometric/bibliometric analysis) qualitative (content approaches to analyze existing programs, cohesion indicators, attitudes toward change action. Our findings revealed crucial link: communities with robust demonstrate heightened commitment translates increased engagement in sustainable practices, information sharing, mutual among members. suggests policymakers leverage networks, civic safety nets build highlighted building inclusivity is fostering collective successfully transitioning low-carbon societies.

Язык: Английский

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Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research: A systematic literature review

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 52, С. 100887 - 100887

Опубликована: Июль 19, 2024

Resilience is traditionally seen as the capability to bounce back normal from undesired change, while sustainability transitions research seeks understand how a radical change can be promoted. This may puzzle, not least considering increasingly frequent combination of both sets concepts in policy and scholarly approaches. In this article we systematically review scientific publications that combine these concepts. The findings highlight resilience an emerging analytical lens, owing especially perspectives developed within socio-ecological thinking. internalizes "nature" more explicitly into conceptual empirical work, regarding energy systems. Future related issues like stability capabilities for various forms but also needs pay attention trade-offs assumptions about normative resilience, undesirable which exist or emerge different phases places transitions.

Язык: Английский

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City-University Partnerships (CUPs) for Climate Urban Transformation: The Case of Valencia, Spain

Deleted Journal, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 3(1), С. 87 - 107

Опубликована: Март 1, 2025

Valencia’s pursuit of climate transformation has forged strategic alliances with crucial city stakeholders, a focal point being the symbiotic partnership university. This commentary provides comprehensive analysis city-university partnerships (CUPs), focus on collaborative endeavours between Valencia and Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Through an examination initiatives carried out by this CUP toward strengthening their potential, study delves into critical components that drove success CUPs in Valencia, as well its challenges. In administration, transformative elements such urban strategy, mission adoption, governance for policies take centre stage. These underscore commitment to sustainable development mission-oriented innovation. Concurrently, UPV’s role, highlighting living labs innovative research education paradigms contribute city’s sustainability agenda. contributes significantly discourse CUPs, transition studies, governance, offering valuable insights effective strategies. Identifying policymakers’ priorities, opportunities, desired solutions action innovation lays groundwork ongoing optimization development, particularly from municipality’s perspective. examination, policymakers gain deeper understanding possible challenges mechanisms driving successful can leverage these enhance efforts accelerate progress more future.

Язык: Английский

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What Role for Cities in the EU Green Deal? Analysis of Policy Framework, Interlinkages and Contribution to the 2030 Agenda

Sustainable Development, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 26, 2025

ABSTRACT Urban environments are at the forefront of European Union (EU) climate ambitions as envisaged by Green Deal (EGD). Cities also central to delivering most 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, EU cities face severe implementation challenges in operationalising EGD and SDGs. This research aims support implementing providing a coherent framework, aligning green transition policies with SDG targets indicators. The framework may policy coherence ambition alignment among governance levels. Specifically, identified 22 matched 76 requiring urban level, SDGs 7, 13 15 being addressed. Furthermore, application allows for informing interlinkage assessment acknowledging potential caution areas, especially when directly linked 13, 6 9. Major implications include (i) opportunity align local development programmes overarching priorities, unlocking Agenda's inform policy‐making (ii) need properly address trade‐offs exploit cities' towards transition.

Язык: Английский

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Resilience governance: a concepts analysis and research synthesis

Discover Environment, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 3(1)

Опубликована: Апрель 14, 2025

Abstract The current era of urbanization, globalization, and climate change is a challenge in urban planning development the future. There still lack literature that offers various conceptual frameworks for stakeholders city governance actors dealing with threats. Therefore, this study aims to fill research gap encourage resilient sustainable face future challenges This provides scientific guidelines recommendations developing studies realize resilience. method systematic review meta-analysis through PRISMA protocol using from 2005 2023. findings indicate approaches must pay attention dimensions resilience such as: (1) social, ecological, economic, institutional, infrastructure. argues government needs be built based on key elements sustainability economic prosperity; (2) Social justice; (3) Environmental sustainability. identifies characteristics as Reflective, Robust, Integrated, Resourceful, Flexible, Redundant, Inclusive. design can help by increasing agility ecosystems, preventing disturbances threats, reversing crises, creating prosperity, justice, These will useful understanding dynamics vulnerability well measuring managing strategies indicators developed.

Язык: Английский

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City-Level Transition to Low-Carbon Economy

Energies, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 15(5), С. 1737 - 1737

Опубликована: Фев. 25, 2022

In recent years climate change has emerged as a global issue directly related to quality of life. this context, one the key goals in next few decades will be transition economy sustainable system. The nature energy planning process dictates application complex models. There is no universal solution problem. Each territory requires bespoke strategy aimed at utilising its specific potential. research presented paper explores reaching zero-carbon system city level. It establishes step-by-step decarbonisation method and proposes an index (ETI). used evaluate different renewable sources (RES) deployment scenarios context affordability, self-reliance, sustainability. main aspects barriers deploying solutions are also explored. Some challenges RES identified capital intensity, output variability, regulatory framework. approach applied focuses on city-level line with goal satisfying demand through local sources. analysis offers two basic conclusions: (1) each that can optimally utilise potential (2) building feasible only by implementing storage technologies.

Язык: Английский

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Assessing nature-based solutions uptake in a Mediterranean climate: insights from the case-study of Malta

Nature-Based Solutions, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 2, С. 100029 - 100029

Опубликована: Авг. 17, 2022

Nature-based solutions are increasingly promoted in regional and national policies because of their potential to contribute toward multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) promote resilient responses climate change.However, several barriers continue limit the effective implementation NbS at local scales hinder uptake by practitioners businesses.This research analyses a database 96 implemented Malta Mediterranean climate, compares with case-studies from similar and, through interviews stakeholders case-study area Malta, identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) current assesses enablers uptake.Most addressed biodiversity loss, action, health wellbeing, sustainable cities communities.NbS were associated arising benefits but social economic benefits, such as green job creation, cohesion ownership communities, less often identified analysed case-studies.Alignment policies, public relations implementation, adoption interdisciplinary approaches involving stakeholders, availability guidelines interviewees key supporting implementation.Multiple institutional, infrastructural perception participation, ownership, integration planning governance, businesses.Based on these observations, we identify need consider means address societal challenges faced communities therefore involvement, that working across disciplines needs be established early co-design processes.We argue experimentation is critical gaps knowledge, develop collaborations permit development context-specific which, addition considering ecological technological conditions decisions relating siting design, also reflect perceptions communities.

Язык: Английский

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Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together

Local Environment, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 29(1), С. 118 - 134

Опубликована: Сен. 13, 2023

Nature-based solutions (NBS) is a relatively novel concept and real-world application has only started to proliferate in cities, which motivates addressing early attempts of cross-boundary collaboration for implementing NBS. The aim this paper reflect about the process transdisciplinary research-practice on NBS its associated learnings, potentials challenges. To do so, reflects one local urban-regional innovation partnerships within Naturvation research project, included urban planning practitioners, researchers public private organisations, aimed understand what can achieve cities how advance implementation through collaboration. This based embedded uses participant observation as methodological inspiration. It draws two streams literature frame reflections; (a) research, collaborative practice engaging learning knowledge co-production (b) boundary concepts, capture boundary-spanning nature Observations, grey "network compass" [Schneider, F., T. Tribaldos, C. Adler, R. O. Biggs, A. de Bremond, Buser, Krug et al. 2021. "Co-Production Knowledge Sustainability Transformations: A Strategic Compass Global Research Networks." Current Opinion Environmental 49: 127–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.007] were used ex-post identify map fields action joint problem understanding building relations, visioning creation roadmaps, targeted horizontal learning. suggests that future should focus relational capacities communicative skills, integrating reflection central components co-producing knowledge. Furthermore, requires facilitation management be considered an area expertise not taken granted.

Язык: Английский

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Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 50, С. 100803 - 100803

Опубликована: Дек. 22, 2023

This paper is concerned with unpacking net-zero frames and identifying implications for precinct scale urban transition management. Using data from frontrunner interviews secondary sources in a case study on the Monash Technology Precinct (Melbourne, Australia), analysis points towards four of at scale: 'Electrify Everything' focuses technology development to achieve carbon emissions reductions; 'Place Matters' which attends liveability, mobility, inclusivity, sociality amenity; 'Going Green' embraces circular economy principles, nature-based solutions green infrastructures; 'Innovation Hotspot' emphasises potential become major geographical agglomeration entrepreneurship, industry development, job creation, international recognition connectivity. Each these are unpacked terms 1) problem that needs be addressed; 2) causal diagnosis key drivers give rise this problem; 3) moral interpretation underpinning drivers; 4) type actions follow framing. The concludes important generating deeper understanding what shapes possibilities as well tensions accelerating transition, because each frame prioritises enables certain strategies collaborations, while it obscures challenges others. Ultimately, calls plausible management approaches connect people, politics place consider real-life multiplicity, diversity, differences views, ambiguities contestation reality potentially generative dynamics.

Язык: Английский

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