Urban Sustainability Transformations in lights of resource efficiency and resilient city concepts

Krellenberg, Kerstin; Koch, Florian; Kabisch, Sigrun

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2017.04.001

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“…An implementation gap between the theoretical concept and the empirical cases is clearly visible. Potential reasons for this gap are inertia, a lack of political will and/or instruments, obstacles to change existing behavioural patterns but also economic forces which try to maintain existing systems [10,62]. This gap has also implications for future urban T2S research: If the difference between theory and practice of urban transformations to sustainability becomes irreconcilable, the concept is in danger to become a meaningless wish-list.…”

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“…We added a conceptual approach towards urban transformations from a socio-environmental science perspective, highlighting the three dimensions resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience as well as their interdependencies as key understanding [9,10]. Even though urban transformations and also urban transitions "have quickly become widely shared normative catch phrases in science and policy that evoke (radical) change for urban sustainability" [11] (p. 18), it is still a matter of discussion what is actually meant by these terms beyond a general understanding of transformation as change [11].…”

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A Transformative Turn towards Sustainability in the Context of Urban-Related Studies? A Systematic Review from 1957 to 2016

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This article evaluates if the increasing use of the term "urban transformations" in academic research and the widely acknowledged importance of cities in sustainability transformations has led to a transformative turn towards sustainability and Global Environmental Change (GEC) in urban-related studies. This is done through a systematic review of the scientific literature on urban transformations for the last six decades. This way, the multiplicity of uses of the term urban transformations is identified and a contextualization of the urban transformations to sustainability-debate within the wider sphere of urban-related studies is achieved. Our findings show that until now the term is very heterogeneously used in the scientific literature and that the number of articles referring to urban transformations to sustainability has significantly increased during the last five years. While first steps towards a transformative turn can be identified, empirical cases of successful urban transformations towards sustainability hardly appear in the articles. A gap between the theoretical concept and the empirical cases of urban transformations is clearly visible, which also has implications for future research on urban sustainability.

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A Transformative Turn towards Sustainability in the Context of Urban-Related Studies? A Systematic Review from 1957 to 2016

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“…system delimitations are abstract and often in accordance with the actor network and physical boundaries. Nevertheless, more recently, the concept of urban transitions has developed somewhat, to the extent that the spatial scale is the city, including relations with other especially governance scales (Frantzeskaki et al, 2017;Hodson et al, 2017;Krellenberg et al, 2016;Wolfram et al, 2016).…”

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Definitions of event magnitudes, spatial scales, and goals for climate change adaptation and their importance for innovation and implementation

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We examine how core professional and institutional actors in the innovation system conceptualize climate change adaptation in regards to pluvial flooding-and how this influences innovation. We do this through a qualitative case study in Copenhagen with interconnected research rounds, including 32 semi-structured interviews, to strengthen the interpretation and analysis of qualitative data. We find that the term "climate change adaptation" currently has no clearly agreed definition in Copenhagen; instead, different actors use different conceptualizations of climate change adaptation according to the characteristics of their specific innovation and implementation projects. However, there is convergence among actors towards a new cognitive paradigm, whereby economic goals and multifunctionality are linked with cost-benefit analyses for adapting to extreme rain events on a surface water catchment scale. Differences in definitions can lead to both successful innovation and to conflict, and thus they affect the city's capacity for change. Our empirical work suggests that climate change adaptation can be characterized according to three attributes: event magnitudes (everyday, design, and extreme), spatial scales (small/local, medium/urban, and large/national-international), and (a wide range of) goals, thereby resulting in different technology choices.

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“…The three dimensions resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience are interrelated and influence each other (Kabisch & Kuhlicke, 2014;Krellenberg et al, 2017) (Fig. 1).…”

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Urban Transformations to Pursue Sustainability Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience: A Conceptual Approach

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2019

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We consider urban transformations as fundamental changes of human life and actions towards sustainability. They are an up-to-date challenge worldwide as more than 50 % of the population is living in cities and the share and total amount of urban dwellers is further growing. The UN's sustainable development goals (2015) as well as the "New urban agenda" which was the final declaration of the Habitat III-conference in 2016 provide both a general normative agenda and a commitment of the UN member states to secure resilient livelihoods for all people. To reach resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience as core dimensions of the conceptual approach, appropriate strategies are necessary which deal with the management of scarce resources such as restricted land, drinking water or energy. Furthermore extreme weather events which cause flooding, storms or heat stress impacting living conditions in cities need increased consideration. These challenges require an interdisciplinary research agenda which include the human factor and its behavioral change, awareness raising, knowledge and the willingness to participate.

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Urban Sustainability Transformations in lights of resource efficiency and resilient city concepts

Cited by 22 publications

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A Transformative Turn towards Sustainability in the Context of Urban-Related Studies? A Systematic Review from 1957 to 2016

A Transformative Turn towards Sustainability in the Context of Urban-Related Studies? A Systematic Review from 1957 to 2016

Definitions of event magnitudes, spatial scales, and goals for climate change adaptation and their importance for innovation and implementation

Urban Transformations to Pursue Sustainability Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience: A Conceptual Approach

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