New Urban Transitions towards Sustainability: Addressing SDG Challenges (Research and Implementation Tasks and Topics from the Perspective of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe)

Kabisch, Sigrun; Finnveden, Göran; Kratochvı́l, Petr; Sendi, Richard; Smagacz‐Poziemska, Marta; Matos, Rafaela; Bylund, Jonas

doi:10.3390/su11082242

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“…Socio-technical transition (STT) recognizes that cities are complex, adaptive, dynamic and open systems in constant evolution [ 23 , 47 ]. Sustainable transitions present the city as a socio-technical system that needs to be reconfigured, as guided by the SDGs [ 23 , 42 , 55 ]. From the STT perspective, an urban transformation implies regime shifts as a consequence of the tension between regime rules and landscape, internal regime frictions and the pressure of niche-generated alternatives [ 47 ].…”

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The Transition of Cities towards Innovations in Mobility: Searching for a Global Perspective

Molina

Rey-Tienda

Suárez-Redondo

2022

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The growing concentration of the population in urban areas presents great challenges for sustainability. Within this process, mobility emerges as one of the main generators of externalities that hinder the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The transition of cities towards innovations in sustainable mobility requires progress in different dimensions, whose interaction requires research. Likewise, it is necessary to establish whether the experiences developed between cities with different contexts can be extrapolated. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify how the conditions that determine a city’s readiness to implement urban mobility innovations could be combined. For this, qualitative comparative analysis was applied to a model developed using the multi-level perspective, analyzing 60 cities from different geographical areas and with a different gross domestic product per capita. The R package Set Methods was used. The explanation of the readiness of cities to implement mobility innovations is different to the explanation of the readiness negation. While readiness is explained by two solutions, in which only regime elements appear, the negation of readiness is explained by five possible solutions, showing the interaction between the landscape and regimen elements and enacting the negation of innovations as a necessary condition. The cluster analysis shows us that the results can be extrapolated between cities with different contexts.

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The Transition of Cities towards Innovations in Mobility: Searching for a Global Perspective

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Rey-Tienda

Suárez-Redondo

2022

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“…This will require contributions from both high emitting urban areas as well as urban areas that are yet to be planned and constructed to accommodate increases in the urban population. Trends established in the next decade following SDG11 criteria and its interlinkages (Kabisch et al, 2019) can also continue to provide benefits for more sustainable urbanization throughout the century. The way that urban areas are designed, built, and managed in all regions will determine resource usage patterns, material demands, energy choices, and cobenefits for urban inhabitants such as air quality (Fujimori et al, 2020) for much longer periods of time.…”

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Under SSP/RCP Scenarios, 1990 to 2100

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Kılkış²,

Seto³

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Projections of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are critical to better understanding and anticipating future climate change under different socio-economic conditions and mitigation strategies. The climate projections and scenarios assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, following the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP)-Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) framework, have provided a rich understanding of the constraints and opportunities for policy action. However, the current emissions scenarios lack an explicit treatment of urban emissions within the global context. Given the pace and scale of urbanization, with global urban populations expected to increase from about 4.4 billion today to about 7 billion by 2050, there is an urgent need to fill this knowledge gap. Here, we estimate the share of global GHG emissions emanating from urban areas from 1990 to 2100 based on the SSP-RCP framework. The urban GHG emissions are presented in five regional aggregates and are based on a combination of the urban population share, 2015 urban per capita CO2eq emissions, SSP-based national CO2eq emissions, and recent analysis of urban per capita CO2eq trends. We find that urban areas account for the majority of global GHG emissions in 2015 (61.8%). Moreover, the urban share of global GHG emissions progressively increases into the future, exceeding 80% in some scenarios by the end of the century. The combined urban areas in Asia and Developing Pacific, and Developed Countries account for 65.0% to 73.3% of cumulative urban emissions between 2020 and 2100 across the scenarios. Given these dominant roles, we describe the implications to potential urban mitigation in each of the scenario narratives in order to meet the goal of climate neutrality within this century.

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“…They are part of the UN Resolution popularly known as "Agenda 2030". Research directions on this topic include responses to climate change [22][23][24][25], social equity, education and health [26][27][28][29][30][31], urban sustainability [32][33][34][35], sustainable business [36][37][38][39][40] and policy design, implementation and evaluation [41][42][43][44][45]. It is widely understood that the SDGs are closely interdependent and that their successful pursuit requires integration across most policy areas.…”

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Urban Vegetation Leveraging Actions

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a subset of targets that can be advanced through standard urban management activities. In particular, routine urban vegetation management comprises a number of activities with potential impact on Goal #4 (quality education), #11 (sustainable cities and communities), #13 (protect the planet), #15 (life on land), and, perhaps less obviously, but equally important, on Goal #8 (good jobs and economic growth). This paper discusses how urban vegetation management can help achieve the SDGs at a local level. Drawing on a case study (Talavera de la Reina, Spain), it is shown that an intelligent approach to urban vegetation management can leverage resources towards the SDGs at little or no cost to municipalities. Minor modifications and conceptual changes in how standard practices are carried out can make a difference. Including this dimension can even result in a positive balance for the municipal budget. Our analyses and proposals are of broad and direct applicability for urban areas worldwide and can help city authorities and officials to align their cities with the SDGs simply by making minor adjustments to how they currently deal with urban vegetation.

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New Urban Transitions towards Sustainability: Addressing SDG Challenges (Research and Implementation Tasks and Topics from the Perspective of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe)

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

The Transition of Cities towards Innovations in Mobility: Searching for a Global Perspective

The Transition of Cities towards Innovations in Mobility: Searching for a Global Perspective

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Under SSP/RCP Scenarios, 1990 to 2100

Urban Vegetation Leveraging Actions

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