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- Mccormick, Kes, et al.
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Introduction to a Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 2023
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372023 - 9781800372030
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How can cities and communities around the world become more sustainable? What can we do as researchers to help them? As we move through the twenty-first century, these questions assume ever-greater importance. Many of the quickest wins for human and planetary health involve reimagining and reconfiguring cities. Activities that generate negative impacts like air pollution and poor health are concentrated in cities, as are the potential benefits of improving resource efficiency and liveability. It is cheaper, easier and more efficient to provide services to people who are concentrated in cities. This fact applies to green infrastructure, sustainable housing, high-speed broadband and low carbon transport alike. Because cities concentrate material and human resources as well as services and infrastructures they offer incredible opportunities to advance sustainability.
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- Palm, Jenny, et al.
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Energy communities as accelerators of energy transition in cities
- 2023
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372023 - 9781800372030 ; , s. 69-80
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The European Green Deal states that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should be reduced by at least 50% by 2030, and that there should be no net GHG emissions by 2050. The energy sector is a key in this transformation, and energy communities can as accelerators of transitionsKey findings:•Future scenarios outline a decentralized energy system in which smaller generation units have become more economically viable and turned economies ‘upside down’. •This will be an energy system with increased penetration of information technologies, allowing for more flexible and less hierarchical management of infrastructure. •This future system will also entail, for example, the increased electrification of transportation infrastructure and the increased use of heat pumps in energy-efficient buildings.
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- Shabb, Katherine, et al.
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Climate City Contracts? Governing towards Climate Neutral Cities
- 2023
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372030 - 9781800372023
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate City Contracts or CCCs are being developed in the context of a larger mission, with many stakeholders, funding, and growing momentum, hopefully providing a new force, legitimacy, and inspiration to ongoing urban climate actions. CCCs differ from current strategies for tackling climate change in cities because they are being developed in the context of the mission approach to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. CCCs are a mechanism to ensure that city-level work is not occurring in a vacuum but rather facilitates multi-level integration between cities, national agencies, and the European Union, but also collaboration across a diversity of stakeholders. The current focus of CCCs is mostly on process rather than outcomes. Ambitious Climate Investment Plans, which encompass private sector efforts, are necessary to underpin the goals and activities outlined in CCCs.
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- Shabb, Katherine, et al.
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Climate city contracts? Governing towards climate-neutral cities
- 2023
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800372030 - 9781800372023 ; , s. 141-152
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Chapter 10, Shabb, McCormick, Anderberg and Mujkic investigate how Climate City Contracts (CCCs) are being developed in Europe and what it means for other parts of the world. CCCs are intended to be different from current strategies to tackle climate change because they are designed as part of a larger mission with many stakeholders, funding and growing momentum. CCCs are a mechanism to ensure that city-level work is not occurring in a vacuum but rather facilitates multi-level integration between cities, national agencies, and the European Union, but also collaboration across all stakeholders. The current focus of CCCs is mostly on the process rather than outcomes. Ambitious Climate Investment Plans, which encompass private sector efforts, are necessary to underpin the goals and activities outlined in CCCs.
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- Voytenko Palgan, Yuliya, et al.
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Share and Repair in Cities: Agenda for Research and Practice on Circular Urban Resilience
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research Agenda on Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372023 - 9781800372030 ; , s. 81-102
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Share and repair organizations (SROs) have important implications for resource efficiency and socio-economic sustainability in cities, but their potential to contribute to long-term urban resilience has yet to be systematically investigated. Knowledge is scarce about how these nascent circular initiatives can provide building blocks for socio-economic recovery in the wake of recent crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the humanitarian crisis induced by the war in Ukraine, as well as what opportunities they may offer for delivering long-term resilience in cities. These crises bring societal urgency to such research.The aim of this chapter is to build a forward-looking agenda for interdisciplinary research and practice on circular urban resilience. We call for developing knowledge and theory on circular urban resilience, which would advance the understanding and explore relationships between the circular and sharing economy and urban resilience, thereby helping transform our cities towards resilience. This work is underpinned by four avenues for research and practice. There is a need for empirical evidence on the short-term responses of SROs to high-impact low-probability crises in different cities (Avenue 1) and on how municipalities around the world have engaged with SROs when responding to such crises (Avenue 3). This empirical account would help unpack the potential of SROs to support long-term resilience in cities (Avenue 2) and advance resilient urban systems by identifying pathways for municipalities to unlock the potential of SROs for long-term urban resilience (Avenue 4).Future research on circular urban resilience should not only trigger a fundamental shift in the conceptualization of share and repair strategies in light of urban resilience but also provide new ways for building resilient, just, and sustainable cities. Key messages to urban actors advancing sustainable cities and communities are to: 1) set urban resilience as a strategic goal; and 2) operationalize resilience and, when relevant, connect urban resilience and circular economy agendas."These changes mainly involve adding some commas for clarity and adjusting sentence structures.
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