Participatory planning for local sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals

Szetey, Katrina; Ashton, Emma; Butcher, Martin; Sprunt, Beth; Bryan, Brett A.

doi:10.5751/es-12566-260316

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“…91 Previous studies have suggested frameworks for addressing these challenges through transdisciplinary approaches that can go beyond working with researchers and facilitate public community engagement in pathway development processes. 94,95 Although still a niche field, the growing application 96,97 of a variety of transdisciplinary approaches, such as knowledge co-production (including local, practical, and indigenous knowledge) and participatory processes with stakeholders (i.e., co-designing pathways, local priorities, 10 and plans 98 ) have provided opportunities to advance the local-scale understanding of the SDGs.…”

Section: System Dynamics Modeling For Integrated Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda

Eker¹,

Gao²,

Hadjikakou³

et al. 2022

One Earth

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Section: System Dynamics Modeling For Integrated Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda

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Gao²,

Hadjikakou³

et al. 2022

One Earth

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“…A novel model, recently created by Bibri and Krogstie [39] for data-driven SSC, offers a strategic guide for transformation towards sustainability in the context of big data [39]. Other roadmaps are focused on participatory planning towards SSC development [37] and on participatory planning guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) [38], which demonstrates an approach to co-create a local sustainability plan using the SDGs for a rural community aiming to align bottom-up local needs with top-down global goals.…”

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Smart Sustainable City Roadmap as a Tool for Addressing Sustainability Challenges and Building Governance Capacity

Pereira

Azambuja

2021

Sustainability

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Building smart sustainable cities initiatives requires governance capacity, which is constantly challenged by a diversity of actors and the transformation towards a digital society; however, the process of identifying the conditions for building a smart sustainable city (SSC) is not straightforward. As an attempt to map the key governance conditions, the goal of this study is to suggest guidelines for the development of SSC initiatives in the format of a generic roadmap. This research applies design science research methodology and builds the roadmap based on identified antecedents that may hinder or facilitate the development of SSC initiatives from a systematic literature review and the analysis of key governance aspects from 12 smart city initiatives in Europe and Latin America. This paper builds its results through a four-step approach including: (1) defining the main concepts and dimensions within the smart sustainable city context; (2) identifying sustainability challenges for the development of smart sustainable city initiatives; (3) analysing key governance aspects from smart sustainable city initiatives; and (4) designing an actionable research-based roadmap and practical recommendations. The resulting roadmap contains 11 key governance conditions for developing strategies for smart sustainable city initiatives that were classified into three main phases: (1) planning; (2) implementing; and (3) adopting, monitoring, and evaluating. In terms of contribution, this research provides a tool to support the development of initiatives, addressing sustainability challenges and strengthening governance capacity to ensure the long-term impacts of smart sustainable cities.

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“…However, large-scale and global scenarios in reality translate into local changes in human interactions with the environment (Moallemi et al, 2020b). Grassroots solutions led by local communities, cities, and businesses can also make synergies with the aspirations of the higher scales and significantly impact the unfolding of higher-level sustainability scenarios (Bandari et al, 2021;Bennett et al, 2021;Szetey et al, 2021aSzetey et al, , 2021b. This brings new challenges for modelling the cross-scale dynamics of scenarios that can account for both higher spatial and temporal resolutions where policy-making (e.g.…”

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Diversifying models for analysing global change scenarios and sustainability pathways

2022

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Non-technical summary. Models are increasingly used to inform the transformation of human-Earth systems towards a sustainable future, aligned with the sustainable development goals (SDGs). We argue that a greater diversity of models ought to be used for sustainability analysis to better address complexity and uncertainty. We articulate the steps to model global change socioeconomic and climatic scenarios with new models. Through these steps, we generate new scenario projections using a human-Earth system dynamics model. Our modelling brings new insights about the sensitivity of sustainability trends to future uncertainty and their alignment with or divergence from previous model-based scenario projections. Technical summary. The future uncertainty and complexity of alternative socioeconomic and climatic scenarios challenge the model-based analysis of sustainable development. Obtaining robust insights requires a systematic processing of uncertainty and complexity not only in input assumptions, but also in the diversity of model structures that simulates the multisectoral dynamics of human and Earth system interactions. Here, we implement the global change scenarios, that is, the shared socioeconomic pathways and the representative concentration pathways, in a feedback-rich, integrated assessment model (IAM) of human-Earth system dynamics, called FeliX, to serve two aims: (1) to provide modellers with well-defined steps for the adoption of established scenarios in new IAMs and (2) to explore the impacts of model uncertainty and its structural complexity on the projection of these scenarios for sustainable development. Our modelling shows internally consistent scenario storylines across sectors, yet with quantitatively different realisations of these scenarios compared to other IAMs due to the new model's structural complexity. The results highlight the importance of enumerating global change scenarios and their uncertainty exploration with a diversity of models of different input assumptions and structures to capture a wider variety of future possibilities and sustainability indicators. Social media summary. New study highlights the importance of global change scenario analysis with new, SDG-focused IAMs.

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Participatory planning for local sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals

Cited by 37 publications

References 18 publications

Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda

Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda

Smart Sustainable City Roadmap as a Tool for Addressing Sustainability Challenges and Building Governance Capacity

Diversifying models for analysing global change scenarios and sustainability pathways

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