Community foresight for urban sustainability: Insights from the Citizens Science for Sustainability (SuScit) project

Eames, Malcolm; Egmose, Jonas

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2010.09.002

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“…It has equally informed the conception of action research in "urban transition labs" i.e., transdisciplinary interaction spaces that complement existing governance arenas [37]. Moreover, the specific design of foresight processes within TM has generated suggestions for modifying urban planning methods [38,39].…”

Section: Studies Of Systemic Change Engaging With the Citymentioning

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Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability: Prevailing Epistemologies and an Emerging Research Agenda

2016

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Abstract:Cities are key for sustainability and the radical systemic changes required to enable equitable human development within planetary boundaries. Their particular role in this regard has become the subject of an emerging and highly interdisciplinary scientific debate. Drawing on a qualitative literature review, this paper identifies and scrutinizes the principal fields involved, asking for their respective normative orientation, interdisciplinary constitution, theories and methods used, and empirical basis to provide orientations for future research. It recognizes four salient research epistemologies, each focusing on a distinct combination of drivers of change: (A) transforming urban metabolisms and political ecologies; (B) configuring urban innovation systems for green economies; (C) building adaptive urban communities and ecosystems; and (D) empowering urban grassroots niches and social innovation. The findings suggest that future research directed at cities and systemic change towards sustainability should (1) explore interrelations between the above epistemologies, using relational geography and governance theory as boundary areas; (2) conceive of cities as places shaped by and shaping interactions between multiple socio-technical and social-ecological systems; (3) focus on agency across systems and drivers of change, and develop corresponding approaches for intervention and experimentation; and (4) rebalance the empirical basis and methods employed, strengthening transdisciplinarity in particular.

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Section: Studies Of Systemic Change Engaging With the Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability: Prevailing Epistemologies and an Emerging Research Agenda

2016

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“…Citizen science refers to the involvement and participation of citizens in the scientific process and is currently developing quickly in all kinds of scientific areas such as psychology, ecology, astronomy, medicine, computer science and statistics, and it is taking a variety of forms (Eames and Egmose, 2011;Dickinson et al, 2012). In citizens' science the ownership of the information stays with citizens themselves.…”

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Bonding by doing : the dynamics of self-organizing groups of citizens taking charge of their living environment

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“…Lay-people engagement by means of visioning evades some of the challenges attached to early engagement, such as opaqueness of the issue to be discussed. Visioning allows for moving away from immediate concerns or feasibility thinking and towards shared explorations of alternative, more sustainable futures, especially when applying longer time horizons [43,44]. In this way, tacit knowledge, needs, and values can be collected and integrated with stakeholder and expert knowledge, and used in the co-creation of socially robust knowledge for responsible agenda setting.…”

Section: Participatory Agenda Setting For Increasing Responsiveness Tmentioning

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But do they deliver? Participatory agenda setting on the test bed

2018

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In this contribution, we investigate how results produced in a large-scale participatory agenda setting process differ from results of expert-based foresight studies with a similar aim of informing EU research and innovation (R&I) policy. After providing a theoretical positioning and an overview of the EU-wide participatory agenda setting process CIMULACT-Citizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon 2020, we describe our developed analytical approach that includes five analytical steps and calculation of three metrics. By comparative reading, analysis and scoring of 16 expert-based foresight reports, we produced data for the metrics that allow for discerning between (a) how many of the analyzed foresight reports cover a respective topic from CIMULACT, (b) how well this basic coverage aligns qualitatively, and (c) comprehensive comparison of each CIMULACT topic with respect to all surveyed reports. To discern differences, we chose those results (research topics) from CIMULACT that were also sufficiently covered by expert-based reports. Our findings suggest that such citizen-based, multi-actor co-created policy advice qualitatively differs considerably from that elicited by expert-based reports, in terms of direction and focus of the proposed R&I agenda.

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Community foresight for urban sustainability: Insights from the Citizens Science for Sustainability (SuScit) project

Cited by 66 publications

References 5 publications

Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability: Prevailing Epistemologies and an Emerging Research Agenda

Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability: Prevailing Epistemologies and an Emerging Research Agenda

Bonding by doing : the dynamics of self-organizing groups of citizens taking charge of their living environment

But do they deliver? Participatory agenda setting on the test bed

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