A5033403647- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Transport and Economic Policies
- Social Science and Policy Research
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Government, Law, and Information Management
- Community Health and Development
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
2012-2024
TU Dresden
2021-2022
Sungkyunkwan University
2018-2019
Yonsei University
2015-2017
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 subject of an emerging highly interdisciplinary scientific debate. Drawing on a qualitative literature review, paper identifies scrutinizes principal fields involved, asking their respective normative orientation, constitution, theories methods used, empirical basis provide orientations future research....
Over the past decade, diverse urban governance innovations and experiments have emerged with declared aim to foster climate change mitigation adaptation, involving actors at multiple levels scales. This turn in environmental has been accompanied by normative claims high expectations regarding a leading role of cities coping change. However, while time pressures for effective action are growing, little is known about social learning processes involved such innovations, what they actually...
This special issue contributes to scholarly debates about the role of cities in global climate governance, reflecting on promise, limits, and politics as agents change. It takes an empirically-informed approach drawing multiple diverse geographical political contexts. Overall, aims stimulate reflection debate where understanding practice needs improvement advance governance. Key questions that are addressed include: To what extent do real world experiences confirm or disconfirm high...
Urban transitions and transformations research fosters a dialogue between sustainability theory an inter- transdisciplinary on urban change. As field, encompasses plural analytical conceptual perspectives. In doing so, this field opens up to new communities of practice in environments, including mayors, transnational municipal networks, international organizations.
This paper explores the preconditions and social learning processes that allow urban climate governance innovations solutions they engender to be transformative. It does so by assessing capacity available prepare for, initiate steer a path-deviant sustainability transformation of energy systems in three cities South Korea – country facing major challenges this regard due heavy dependence on imported fossil resources centralized institutions. The findings illustrate how synergies between...
Gender is a vital factor of societal organisation and transformation, figures prominently in global sustainability agendas. Its social construction interaction with technological change have been studied extensively. Within the field transition (ST) research, however, complex roles gender plays socio-technical are still rarely addressed or conceptualised. Based on systematic review covering scientific publications from 2010 to 2020 we illustrate this overall gap explore how operationalised....
This paper discusses the crucial role cities play in emergence and formation of grassroots socio-technical niches for sustainability transitions. Drawing on research engaged with strategic niche management, innovations urban social innovations, it conceptualizes interdependencies between contexts dynamics, explores a critical case point: Current policy efforts city Seoul to create, diversify network neighborhoods. The illustrates how innovative place-making activities everyday-life environs...
Disruptions (systemic disturbances) are crucial to initiate and accelerate sustainability transformations of large-scale social systems (be they socio-ecological, socio-technical, or socio-institutional). Their emergence, characteristics effects strongly relate the role agents who aim disrupt transform status quo, which thus possess what we call disruptive agency. In this paper, highlight epistemic dimension agency in transformations, first by conceptualizing as outsiders with respect system...
Information, communication and knowledge creation are at the core of urban stakeholder interactions enabling identification vulnerabilities design adequate responses to them. Urban infostructures play a crucial role within these processes, interfacing between city’s ecological, social, technical, economic political networks. Against this backdrop, paper discusses governance from socio-technical systems perspective. It, therefore, reviews pertinent technology components, as well institutional...
Urban sustainability transitions research has emerged as a prominent field of study since the late 2000s. This chapter traces historic evolution field, offering concise overview key debates. It defines terms, explores epistemological entry points and examines methodological implications studying urban transitions. The further delves into recent discussions controversies, focusing on actors, agency intermediation for change, governance transformative development capacities. Drawing “City...
This paper discusses current efforts of the city Seoul to grapple with some its most pressing sustainability problems through conjoint social and governance innovations. Drawing on pertinent strands urban-, transition-, resilience-studies, it reviews design implementation activities aimed at establishing a self-organizing innovation ecosystem nurtured by place-based networks neighborhood scale ("village communities"), reflects their potential effectively enable wider transition dynamics. The...