| 1. |
|
|
| 2. |
- Mccormick, Kes, et al.
(författare)
-
Introduction to a Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 2023
-
Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372023 - 9781800372030
-
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.
|
|
| 3. |
- Shabb, Katherine, et al.
(författare)
-
Climate City Contracts? Governing towards Climate Neutral Cities
- 2023
-
Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372030 - 9781800372023
-
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.
|
|
| 4. |
-
A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 2023
-
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Global in its outlook, this Research Agenda systematically reviews and critiques existing research on sustainable cities, calling for greater engagement with a diversity of perspectives. It interrogates foundational assumptions in the field and offers reframed perspectives on sustainability. Chapters also explore diverse approaches, actors and domains, locating emerging dynamics and new directions for practitioners.
|
|
| 5. |
|
|
| 6. |
- Barkman, Henric, et al.
(författare)
-
Sharing Towns : Building success with the sharing economy outside big cities
- 2021
-
Ingår i: Sharing Cities 2020. - Singapore : Springer Singapore. - 9789811580369 - 9789811580376 ; , s. 19-21
-
Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The sharing economy is sometimes described as a big city phenomenon. Among the successful examples of sharing economy, cities such as New York, Amsterdam, Seoul, Bergen, Oslo, and Gothenburg are often highlighted. But the majority of the population of Sweden and many other countries do not live in big cities, but in small towns, medium-sized cities or in a rural area. With a smaller and less densely populated population base, these areas are less interesting for commercial sharing services, and it also considered to be more difficult to create a critical mass for sharing under such conditions.
|
|
| 7. |
|
|
| 8. |
- Burch, Sarah, et al.
(författare)
-
Building urban resilience through sustainability-oriented small- and medium-sized enterprises
- 2022
-
Ingår i: Urban Transformations. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2524-8162. ; 4:1
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, and the unprecedented social and economic costs it has inflicted, provide an important opportunity to scrutinize the interplay between the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the resilience of the communities they are embedded in. In this article, we articulate the specific ways that SMEs play a crucial, and underappreciated role in building resilience to human and natural hazards, and provide new opportunities to accelerate the adoption of sustainability practices through the configuration of 'enabling ecosystems' geared towards promoting sustainability in the private sector. We argue that capacity-building and experimentation are not only required within companies, but also throughout this emerging supportive ecosystem of policies, resources (i.e. finance, materials, skills), governance actors, and intermediaries to adequately focus investment, technical capabilities and innovation. Ultimately, we call for a new transdisciplinary action research agenda that centers on SMEs as pivotal actors and amplifiers of community resilience; while recognizing that these firms are themselves in need of support to secure their own capacity to respond to, and transform in light of, crises. This research program calls for recognizing and applying the lessons that the pandemic presents to the urgent need for accelerated climate action. This will be enabled by developing more targeted approaches to collaborative capacity-building activities in SMEs that feed into experimentation and allow for the accelerated adoption of deliberate and strategic resilient business practices and models.
|
|
| 9. |
-
Cities, Nature and Innovation: New Directions
- 2020
-
Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Nature-based solutions have the potential to provide multiple benefits across a range of sustainability challenges facing cities. They can help to limit the impacts of climate change, enhance biodiversity and improve environmental quality while contributing to economic activities and social well-being. Read on and learn more about nature-based solutions in an urban world!
|
|
| 10. |
-
CIUDADES, NATURALEZA E INNOVACIÓN - NUEVAS DIRECCIONES
- 2020
-
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Las soluciones basadas en la naturaleza tienen el potencial de ofrecer múltiples ventajas de cara a diversos retos de sostenibilidad a los que se enfrentan las ciudades. Pueden ayudar a limitar el impacto del cambio climático, expandir la biodiversidad y mejorar la calidad medioambiental, así como contribuir a las actividades económicas y el bienestar social. Siga leyendo para descubrir en qué consisten estas soluciones para las ciudades basadas en la naturaleza!
|
|
| 11. |
- Coulombe, Cynthia, et al.
(författare)
-
Local municipalities and the influence of national networks on city climate governance : Small places with big possibilities
- 2022
-
Ingår i: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 2624-9634. ; 4
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reaching the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement not only requires ambitious goals from national governments, but also the active participation of local municipalities. It is in cities where climate actions need to be implemented to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reach international and national climate goals. While the importance of cities and their participation in networks has been well-researched, studies have systematically neglected the committed individual agents in small and medium-sized cities and overlooked the importance of national networks. To address these research gaps, this article looks at how local climate managers use their municipality's membership in national networks to increase action and implementation. This article is based on 12 semi-structured interviews with seven municipal representatives and five representatives of two national city networks, and four informal discussions. Through comparative content analysis, it was identified that the main functions derived from network participation are direct exchanges between the climate managers, mobilization of others in the municipality, accounting of greenhouse gas emissions, and project support. These functions helped overcome key limitations that the actors often faced within the municipality related to a lack of legal competences, administrative resources and internal support for climate work and financial resources. This has implications for city networks which have been focusing on larger cities and not including smaller cities who have less capacity and who can benefit the most from the functions provided by them.
|
|
| 12. |
- Evans, James, et al.
(författare)
-
Smart and Sustainable Cities? : Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities
- 2021. - 1
-
Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental value through the seamless connection of urban services and infrastructure by digital technologies. However, there is scant evidence of how these activities can enhance social well-being and contribute to just and equitable communities. Smart and Sustainable Cities? Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities provides one of the first examinations of how smart cities relate to environmental and social issues. It addresses the gap between the ambitious visions of smart cities and the actual practices on the ground by focusing on the social and environmental dimensions of real smart city initiatives as well as the possibilities that they hold for creating more equitable and progressive cities. Through detailed analyses of case studies in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, India, and China, the contributors describe the various ways that social and environmental issues are interpreted and integrated into smart city initiatives and actions. The findings point towards the need for more intentional engagement and collaboration with all urban stakeholders in the design, development and maintenance of smart cities to ensure that everyone benefits from the increasingly digitalised urban environments of the twenty-first century.
|
|
| 13. |
- Gullström, Charlie, et al.
(författare)
-
Stockholm : Developing a citizen engagement laboratory for a local climate goal and the sharing economy
- 2021
-
Ingår i: Sharing Cities 2020. - Singapore : Springer Singapore. - 9789811580369 - 9789811580376 ; , s. 113-117
-
Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The uniqueness of the Stockholm test-bed is based on its close collaboration with a citizen initiative called Hammarby Sjöstad 2.0 around the mission to create a climate-neutral city district by 2027. The founder of Hammarby Sjöstad 2.0 is ElectriCITY, a (civic society NGO and) membership association which operates a number of energy initiatives in the area since 2012, primarily by targeting the need for knowledge-sharing between housing association boards. Over 30 housing associations are currently engaged in projects relating to optimized energy systems; joint procurement; a shared solar-cell park; and real estate hub for sharing data and preparations to form positive energy districts are ongoing. Since its start in 2017, Sharing City Stockholm has fuelled Hammarby Sjöstad 2.0 as a ‘citizen engagement lab’ by more directly involving households in reaching the climate goal. A workshop series ‘Klimatspanarna’ has been launched, with topics of interest to families with small children; and various projects are ongoing to promote sharing among neighbours, as an alternative to consumption, by experimenting with neighbourhood platforms and working with focus groups in selected residential blocks.
|
|
| 14. |
- Henman, Josefine, et al.
(författare)
-
Slow Emergency but Urgent Action? Exploring the impact of municipal climate emergency statements in Sweden
- 2023
-
Ingår i: Urban Climate. - 2212-0955. ; 49
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, more than 2000 jurisdictions worldwide have declared a climate emergency. While such declarations have been suggested to have the potential to spark transformative climate action, there is much disagreement about the merits of climate emergency framings. Moreover, no studies have been conducted on the topic from a Swedish perspective. This study addresses this research gap by exploring the ‘climate emergency statements’ issued by the Swedish cities of Lund, Malmö, and Kalmar. Specifically, the study focuses on the political implications of the statements, and the extent to which the climate strategies of these three municipalities correspond to a climate emergency mode. The findings indicate that the political implications of the climate emergency statements are perceived to be rather limited, and mostly symbolic. However, it appears the statements, at least to some extent, have empowered the climate movement in Sweden, and invited reflections on the capacity of municipalities to act on the climate crisis. Moreover, the document review suggests that the cities exhibit – at least implicitly – a climate emergency mode. The study concludes that if symbolic acts such as the statements are to assist transformative change, they must be coupled with political and practical action.
|
|
| 15. |
- Kiss, Bernadett, et al.
(författare)
-
Stadsdelar som nav för omställning - vad kan vi lära av berättelsen om Augustenborg?
- 2020
-
Ingår i: Ekostaden Augustenborg : erfarenheter och lärdomar - erfarenheter och lärdomar. - 9789151978673 ; , s. 276-285
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Städer, och framför allt stadsdelar, är nyckelplatser för att tillhandahålla en uppbyggd miljö med direkta kopplingar till sociala och miljömässiga frågor. De ses i allt högre grad som platser för strategiska åtgärder i en omställning till hållbarhet och resiliens, med stora möjligheter till grundläggande samhällsförändringar. Inramningen (så kallad framing) på stadsdelsnivå av problem och lösningar, styrningsprocesser för att hantera problem och implementera lösningar samt lärandeprocesser för att utveckla nya sätt att tänka och göra saker på, är alla av särskilt intresse för urbana sociala, tekniskaoch ekologiska omställningar. I den här kontexten erbjuder Augustenborgs över 70 år långa historia ovärderliga kunskaper om urban hållbarhetsomställning. Dessa lärdomar kommer från en oavbruten strävan efter ökat välmående och förbättrade levnadsmiljöer med stöd i globala agendor och lokala visioner, vilket har förverkligats i hållbara lösningar. Dessa lösningar har sammanfört en mängdaktörer som har experimenterat med nya sätt att tänka och organisera sig på.
|
|
| 16. |
- Kiss, Bernadett, et al.
(författare)
-
Urban neighborhoods – the locus of change. What can we learn from the transition story of Augustenborg?
- 2021
-
Ingår i: The Eco-city Augustenborg - experiences and lessons learned. - 9789151978680 ; , s. 274-283
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cities, and more importantly urban neighborhoods, are key sites of infrastructure provision with direct links to social and environmental concerns. They are increasingly seen as sites of strategic action in transitions toward sustainability and resilience, and offer big opportunities for fundamental societal change. The framing of neighborhood-level problems and their solutions, governance processes for managing problems and implementing solutions, and learning processes for evolving new ways of thinking and doing are of special interest for urban socio-techno-ecological transitions. In this context, the over 70-year story of Augustenborg offers invaluable lessons stemming from a continuous search for well-being and enhanced living environments supported by global agendas and local visions, materializing in sustainable solutions which have brought together a multitude of actors experimenting with new ways of thinking and organizing themselves. In this book chapter, we reveal underlying processes of change by analyzing three key aspects of urban transitions: framing, governing and learning.
|
|
| 17. |
- Leonette, Juliet, et al.
(författare)
-
Malmö : Connecting the sharing economy to urban planning processes
- 2021
-
Ingår i: Sharing Cities 2020. - Singapore : Springer Singapore. - 9789811580369 - 9789811580376 ; , s. 79-81
-
Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A new neighbourhood in Malmö is emerging in Sege Park, an area with a rich history and exciting future. The existing parks and buildings provide the conditions for a good living environment. Sustainability, the sharing economy and urban agriculture are some key words for the building actors who are developing some 800 – 1,000 homes in Sege Park together with the municipality. The innovative aspect of the Malmö test-bed is the integration of principles for the sharing economy into the design of infrastructure and housing in Sege Park. The test-bed has come to be a setting where actors openly discuss and negotiate with each other about how to create a sustainable and sharing city district.
|
|
| 18. |
- Lund, Tove, et al.
(författare)
-
Gothenburg : Getting an overview of the sharing economy with the smart map
- 2021
-
Ingår i: Sharing Cities 2020. - Singapore : Springer Singapore. - 9789811580369 - 9789811580376 ; , s. 49-52
-
Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gothenburg is a flourishing green city, with nearly 600,000 inhabitants, located on the west coast of Sweden. Gothenburg has a long tradition of a strong civil society and grass roots movement, which is also reflected when it comes to the development of the sharing economy in the city. Many of the sharing initiatives come from civil society organizations, but the local government has also taken an active role in both providing its own sharing services and to enable the growth of sharing initiatives from other actors. The cooperation with local sharing initiatives is constantly expanding, and with the use of a digital platform, the city has literally put the growing sharing economy on the map.
|
|
| 19. |
- Mccormick, Kes, et al.
(författare)
-
A call for action on sustainable urban transformation: How to govern missions towards climate neutral cities?
- 2020
-
Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The transitions to a low carbon and sustainable society are urgent, but at the current level and pace of action there is a significant risk we will escalate and exceed the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and fail to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. By engaging cities, we can build momentum around bottom-up interconnected actions and accelerate societal and technological transitions.But the current focus is on large, global cities with minimal attention on small cities, villages, and urban nodes. Current actions are often based on top-down “urban optimism”. Current practice is fragmented and often focused on fixing failures. Current action emerges as isolated projects with limited systematic learning. The need for game changing efforts in cities is more critical than ever.
|
|
| 20. |
- Mccormick, Kes, et al.
(författare)
-
Cities and Consumption: Sharing cities and achieving the sustainable development goals
- 2020
-
Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In October 2019, over 200 people from around the world gathered at the Sharing Cities Summit in Sweden for a conference in Lund and an exhibition and workshops in Malmö. The combination of people from municipalities, academia, sharing initiatives, NGOs and SMEs created a vibrant environment for critical discussions. The focus of the event was centered on the connections between the Sustainable Development Goals and sharing economy in cities. This public event was followed up by further analysis on this topic leading to the publication of this synthesis report in December 2020.
|
|
| 21. |
- Mccormick, Kes, et al.
(författare)
-
Cities and Consumption - Urban Sustainability and the Sharing Economy : Course Guide
- 2020
-
Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- How can we govern consumption and the sharing economy in our cities? This course explores cities, consumption and the sharing economy in Europe and around the world. We connect together the key themes of the sharing economy, cities, governance, consumption and urban sustainability. We explore how the sharing economy can contribute to increasing social, environmental and economic sustainability. And we argue that it is imperative that the sharing economy is shaped and designed to advance urban sustainability. This course was launched in May 2020, and it will be updated in September 2021 with new podcasts, films and publications. This course is produced by Lund University in cooperation with partners from Sharing Cities Sweden – a national program for the sharing economy in cities with a focus on governance and sustainability. It features researchers, practitioners and entrepreneurs from a range organisations.
|
|
| 22. |
- McCormick, Kes
(författare)
-
Greening the Economy - Sustainable Cities : Course Guide
- 2020
-
Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- How can we shape our urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures? This course explores sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy in Europe and around the world. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. We connect the key trends of urbanization, decarbonisation and sustainability. We examine how visions, experiments and innovations can transform urban areas. And we look at practices (what is happening in cities at present) and opportunities (what are the possibilities for cities going forwards into the future). This course was launched in January 2016, and updated in September 2021 with new podcasts, films and publications. The course is produced by Lund University in cooperation with WWF and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability who work with creating sustainable cities. The course features researchers, practitioners and entrepreneurs from a range organisations.
|
|
| 23. |
- Mccormick, Kes
(författare)
-
Urban Nature - Connecting Cities, Sustainability and Innovation : Course Guide
- 2020
-
Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- How can we work with nature to design and build our cities? This course explores urban nature and nature-based solutions in cities in Europe and around the world. We connect together the key themes of cities, nature, sustainability and innovation. We discuss how to assess what nature-based solutions can achieve in cities. We examine how innovation is taking place in cities in relation to nature. And we analyse the potential of nature-based solutions to help respond to climate change and sustainability challenges. This course was launched in January 2020, and updated in September 2021 with new podcasts, films and publications. The course is produced by Lund University in cooperation with partners from Naturvation – a collaborative project on finding synergies between cities, nature, sustainability and innovation. The course features researchers, practitioners and entrepreneurs from a range organisations.
|
|
| 24. |
- Moberg, Christina, et al.
(författare)
-
De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
- 2022
-
Ingår i: Aftonbladet. - 1103-9000.
-
Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- 1 620 forskare och lärare i forskarvärlden: Vi ställer oss bakom Auroras klimatkrav
|
|
| 25. |
- Näslund, Philip, et al.
(författare)
-
Umeå : Contributing to sustainable growth and inclusivity through the sharing economy
- 2021
-
Ingår i: Sharing Cities 2020. - Singapore : Springer Singapore. - 9789811580369 - 9789811580376 ; , s. 143-145
-
Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Over the past 50 years Umeå has displayed constant growth, making it the fastest-growing region in northern Sweden. It is therefore crucial that Umeå grows with regards to environmental, social, cultural and economic aspects. Sharing City Umeå, which is a test-bed for the sharing economy, is focusing on innovative solutions for shared mobility, green spaces, resource efficiency, sustainable consumption and supporting the local sharing ecosystem and entrepreneurs. One key question for Umeå is to understand the different roles in the sharing economy for the municipality, companies, NGOs and citizens to support, enable and deliver sharing services in the city. It important to understand how different sharing solutions is contributing to the Global Sustainable Development Goals and the local sustainability goals in Umeå. The test-bed solutions that are successful will be implemented both in new city districts and in existing infrastructure and processes.
|
|
| 26. |
- Palm, Jenny, et al.
(författare)
-
Energy communities as accelerators of energy transition in cities
- 2023
-
Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372030 - 9781800372023 ; , s. 69-80
-
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.
|
|
| 27. |
- Shabb, Katherine, et al.
(författare)
-
Achieving 100 climate neutral cities in Europe : Investigating climate city contracts in Sweden
- 2023
-
Ingår i: npj Climate Action. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2731-9814. ; 2:6
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The European Commission has established a mission to achieve 100 climate neutral cities by 2030. A key element in the process is for municipalities to develop a Climate City Contract (CCC). Simultaneously, Viable Cities, a national strategic innovation program in Sweden, is also focusing on the transition to climate neutral cities where CCCs are being developed. Viable Cities is at the forefront of the process by not only creating the first CCCs at the national level but also in supporting the European Commission in developing the CCCs at the European level. This article investigates the first CCCs in Sweden and consequently Europe. To do so, it evaluates the content of the Swedish CCCs against a framework for best practice deep decarbonization plans, developed by Linton et al. and also analyses the process of developing them. This article is based on a literature review, document analysis of the Swedish CCCs from nine municipalities, and draws on five interviews with the municipalities of Lund, Umeå and Stockholm and Viable Cities. The objective of this article is to investigate the content and process of Swedish CCCs but also to generate insights for subsequent CCCs that are to be developed across Europe.
|
|
| 28. |
- Shabb, Katherine, et al.
(författare)
-
Climate city contracts? Governing towards climate-neutral cities
- 2023
-
Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800372030 - 9781800372023 ; , s. 141-152
-
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.
|
|
| 29. |
- Shabb, Katherine, et al.
(författare)
-
Launching the Mission for 100 Climate Neutral Cities in Europe : Characteristics, Critiques, and Challenges
- 2022
-
Ingår i: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. - Lausanne, Switzerland : Frontiers Research Foundation. - 2624-9634. ; 3
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this perspective article is to critically explore the launch of the mission for 100 climate neutral cities in Europe. An overview of the mission approach in general is first presented, where key aspects and emerging critiques are identified. Second, key elements of the mission for 100 climate neutral cities in Europe are introduced along with some of its challenges and ambiguities. This perspective article ends with highlighting key emerging questions from the report “100 Climate Neutral Cities by 2030 – by and for the citizens” where research and practice need to engage to support municipalities and urban actors in efforts on climate neutrality and help to better navigate toward radical social and technical transformation. This perspective article also proposes two approaches for inclusive participation of citizens and stakeholders that can contribute to the local implementation of the mission for 100 climate neutral cities.
|
|
| 30. |
-
Sharing Cities Sweden: Key Findings and Amplifying Impacts
- 2021
-
Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Sharing Cities Sweden was a national program to help establish Sweden as a country that actively and critically works with the sharing economy in cities. Between 2017- 2021, it was a key initiative of Viable Cities - the strategic innovation program for smart and sustainable cities in Sweden.Sharing Cities Sweden developed and published a diversity of reports and outputs that synthesize the activities and findings from different initiatives in the overall program, the test-beds and strategic projects. This report outlines key findings and lessons to take forwards in cities and communities in Sweden, Europe and around the world.
|
|
| 31. |
-
The Future of Sharing? A Roundtable for Horizon Scanning on Sharing Cities
- 2021
-
Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Organised on the 16 November 2020, the roundtable on “Sharing Cities – Shaping Tomorrow” focused on sharing insights and ideas on the future of sharing in our cities and communities. The roundtable gathered over 40 people from around world and formed part of the Smart City Live Conference. This report pulls together the conversations at the roundtable and distils the key findings.
|
|
| 32. |
- Tozer, Laura, et al.
(författare)
-
Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature
- 2023
-
Ingår i: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2469-4452 .- 2469-4460. ; 113:3, s. 599-615
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transcending initial efforts to make cities “climate smart” by focusing on the potential of new technologies and infrastructural interventions, various actors are increasingly interested in deploying nature to help achieve urban resilience. In this context, rather than taking resilience as a given property of particular systems or entities, it is important to examine why, how, with what implications, and for whom resilience is being enacted. We examine how and why nature-based solutions are being mobilized as a means for governing the resilience of cities and what this means for the ways in which urban resilience is imagined and enacted by different actors. Recognizing that behind different approaches to resilience are diverse ways of valuing nature, we identify four value positions through which nature comes to be understood, given meaning, form, and purpose. Drawing on systematic document analysis and sixty-six interviews from Cape Town, Mexico City, and Melbourne, we discuss how these four value positions of nature are manifested in nature-based interventions for resilience, as well as the implications both for the politics of resilience interventions and the opportunities for enabling social benefit through nature-based solutions. We find that the integration of intrinsic values for nature opens opportunities for nature-based solutions to enable social benefits through an increased focus on the means through which they are implemented. We conclude that urban-nature-as-resilience interventions serve to embed values and the socionatures they produce within the city, creating fundamentally different consequences for the forms and politics of nature-based interventions designed to realize urban resilience.
|
|
| 33. |
-
VILLES, NATURE ET INNOVATION - NOUVELLES ORIENTATIONS
- 2020
-
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Les solutions fondées sur la nature ont le potentiel d’apporter des bénéfices multiples dans la série de défis de durabilité auxquels sont confrontées les villes. Ces solutions peuvent contribuer à limiter les impacts du changement climatique, à enrichir la biodiversité et à améliorer la qualité de l’environnement, tout en participant aux activités économiques et au bien-être social. Lisez et améliorez vos connaissances sur les solutions fondées sur la nature dans un univers urbain!
|
|
| 34. |
- Voytenko Palgan, Yuliya, et al.
(författare)
-
Mobile Lab on Sharing in Gothenburg
- 2020
-
Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cities are seen as one of the leading forces in making our societies sustainable and resource efficient. The latest trends of sharing homes, cars, bicycles, tools and other goods are fast entering our urban lives. The sharing economy is a consumption-production mode in a city, in which value is generated through transactions between peers or organisations that offer access to their idling or underutilised rivalrous physical assets. These assets are made available to individuals in processes often mediated by online platforms (Mont, Voytenko Palgan, and Zvolska, 2019). Examples of sharing economy organisations (SEOs) include bicycle and car sharing initiatives, tool and clothes libraries, and short-term accommodation rentals between peers. Activities of SEOs are often cited as solutions to urban sustainability challenges, but their contribution to sustainability, resource efficiency and the circular economy has not been systematically evaluated. The role of municipalities in advancing more sustainable forms of sharing is not yet fully understood. A systematic and comparative analysis of the role of municipalities in sharing is therefore needed, to build an evidence base and to support sustainable sharing. This report presents the outcomes of a one-day mobile lab on urban sharing in Gothenburg, which was arranged on 16 October 2018 within the framework of the Sharing and the City project, with support from the Sharing Cities Sweden programme. A mobile lab is a collaborative process of conducting insitu analysis by a research team that allows analysis of the study object, the sharing economy, in its context. Sharing in cities becomes institutionalised through two principal sets of dynamic processes. The first is a top-down institutionalisation dynamic when a municipal government employs its agency to promote or inhibit certain SEOs. It does so by employing one or several of the following governance mechanisms: regulating, providing, enabling, self-governing and collaborating (Voytenko Palgan et al., forthcoming). The second set of institutionalisation processes of sharing in cities is bottom-up, resulting from institutional work by SEOs. SEOs engage in the institutional work by creating or disrupting regulatory, normative and cultural-cognitive institutions by employing 11 mechanisms as discussed in the work by Zvolska et al. (2019). These two sets of institutionalisation processes provided input to research themes and related interview questions explored during the mobile lab in Gothenburg. The mobile lab included planning meetings, development of research themes and questions to investigate, preparation of interview guides, one day of empirical data collection, written post-lab reflections of 500-1000 words and photos by each team member, processing the collected material, post-lab meetings to discuss reflections, and writing a mobile lab report. The mobile lab team comprised seven persons representing academia (5) and the City of Gothenburg (2). During the mobile lab in Gothenburg, the team visited the Consumer and Citizen Service Mobile Lab on Sharing in Gothenburg | 4 Administration at the City of Gothenburg and the City Hall, and went on a guided tour in the newly developed area, Södra Älvstranden. The team interviewed a founder of a bicycle repair workshop, the Bike Kitchen (Cykelköket), a civil servant and a leader of the Circular Gothenburg (Cirkulära Göteborg) project, a deputy-mayor of Gothenburg, and a founder of the platform for sharing of urban land for gardening (Grow Gothenburg). After the mobile lab, all participants documented and shared their reflections of the day, which formed the basis for this report. The mobile lab in Gothenburg followed a similar innovative methodological approach to that used in earlier mobile labs, as it brought together a multi- and transdisciplinary group of participants consisting of academic and non-academic actors, which turned out to be beneficial for the data collection and reflection process. Several conclusions can be drawn from the mobile lab in Gothenburg: 1. Sharing in Gothenburg is generally perceived as positive, with a potential to address urban sustainability challenges. Sharing and collaborative economy initiatives are well anchored, both locally and in relation to the international understanding of the movement. 2. The City of Gothenburg provides a welcoming ground for non-profit or community-based sharing initiatives to emerge and develop, and supports them by providing funding and premises, by spreading information about their activities, and by attracting and connecting the users of sharing services. 3. Motivations both for SEOs and for civil servants and politicians to engage with the sharing economy in Gothenburg are primarily of a social nature. The main social benefits include strengthening social cohesion, offering opportunities for people to meet, building trust between strangers, and developing new knowledge and skills in the community. Resource efficiency, self-sufficiency and access to assets for all population groups are experienced as positive co-benefits. 4. All interviewees showed openness and willingness to collaborate, albeit on different grounds and for different reasons. The interviewed representatives of the sharing initiatives and the municipality seem to trust each other, which is something that has been built up over several years. 5. Evaluating the impacts of sharing services in Gothenburg, although important, may not be the key priority for advancing more sustainable forms of sharing. Instead, a focus on forging new collaborations with effective organisational models based on robust arguments to underline the benefits of sharing services may be crucial. Shifting mind-sets of people away from the norms prevalent in consumerist societies (e.g. ownership, throwaway culture) is perhaps the most tangible environmental contribution that the sharing services offer.
|
|
| 35. |
|
|
| 36. |
- Voytenko Palgan, Yuliya, et al.
(författare)
-
Share and Repair in Cities: Agenda for Research and Practice on Circular Urban Resilience
- 2023
-
Ingår i: Research Agenda on Sustainable Cities and Communities. - 9781800372023 - 9781800372030 ; , s. 81-102
-
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.
|
|
| 37. |
- Wickenberg, Björn, et al.
(författare)
-
Advancing the implementation of nature-based solutions in cities: A review of frameworks
- 2021
-
Ingår i: Environmental Science and Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 1462-9011. ; 125, s. 44-53
-
Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help tackle climate change and advance urban sustainability by using nature to deliver social, ecological and economic benefits. However, their success largely depend on implementation for which several barriers exist. For NBS to be meaningful in terms of delivering positive impacts in cities, we need better understanding of how implementation is embedded in NBS frameworks. The aim of this paper is to i) understand how frameworks address implementation, and ii) extract and synthesize key elements and conditions required for enabling the implementation process. Taking a hermeneutic approach, the paper makes use of pre-understanding to interpret and analyse 'the whole' and 'the parts' of the implementation process and discuss how the discourse on NBS implementation could advance towards more operational understanding. This paper suggests that multi-stakeholder collaboration and co-creation of knowledge are important prerequisites for shared understanding of problems, developing actionable knowledge and adapting NBS to site-specific societal challenges. Advancing knowledge about the NBS implementation process is relevant for capacity building and governance of NBS at the local level and bridging policy areas, stakeholders and the knowledge needed to make NBS become relevant to broader society. However, more research is needed to i) move beyond conceptual propositions and towards operational understanding of NBS principles and ii) improve the understanding of how local collaboration and co-creation of knowledge can enhance capacity building and support implementation of NBS.
|
|
| 38. |
- Wickenberg, Björn
(creator_code:cre_t)
-
Cities, Climate and Change: Pathways and Opportunities
- 2023
-
Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- We are facing a climate and ecological emergency. On all levels in society and the economy, there is a need to work towards climate neutrality and sustainable development. A key way to address global and local complex challenges is through cities. But how can we design, create and achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities? This compendium focuses on how to support individuals and organisations in developing transformative skills and capacities for climate action in cities.
|
|
| 39. |
- Wickenberg, Björn, et al.
(författare)
-
Seeds of Transformative Learning: Investigating Past Experiences From Implementing Nature-Based Solutions
- 2022
-
Ingår i: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 2624-9634. ; 4
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nature-based solutions (NBS) attract a growing interest in research and practice due to their potential to address climate change while improving human health and well-being and safeguarding biodiversity. The integration of the NBS concept in urban governance, however, is still emerging and it faces regulatory, political, financial and cognitive barriers. While the literature acknowledges an increase in NBS experimentation in cities and documents new governance approaches for NBS, academic knowledge on transformative learning to advance the potential of NBS is scarce. This article unpacks enabling and constraining factors for transformative learning through interpretative case study analysis of two NBS projects in Malmö, Sweden: BiodiverCity and EcoCity Augustenborg. To map instances of learning and investigate conditions for transformative learning in NBS implementation, this article draws on the concepts of experimenting, governing and learning and uses an analytical framework resting on three pillars: visionary ideas and strategies; stakeholder participation; and institutional arrangements. The article identifies seeds of transformative learning and argues that cross-boundary collaboration, action-oriented knowledge production, reflexive governance and citizen involvement are key enablers for transformative learning, which requires supporting structures, evaluation, continuity and relational capacities to thrive. To advance the implementation of NBS and increase urban sustainability, transformative learning should be acknowledged as a key strategic component of change. This, however, requires transformative learning to be more seriously considered in research and practice related to nature-based urban transformations.
|
|
| 40. |
-
МІСТА, ПРИРОДА ТА ІННОВАЦІЇ | НОВІ НАПРЯМКИ РОЗВИТКУ
- 2021
-
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Природоорієнтовані рішення надають багато переваг у вирішенні низки проблем, пов’язаних зі сталим розвитком міст. Зокрема, вони допомагають обмежити вплив кліматичних змін, покращити біорізноманіття та підвищити якість навколишнього середовища, одночасно сприяючи економічній діяльності та соціальному добробуту. Читайте далі та дізнайтеся більше про природоорієнтовані рішення у світі розвитку міст!
|
|
