Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: GUST in Australia

Thursday 16 March 2017

GUST in Australia

Innovations in urban governance such as Urban Living Labs (ULL) are expected to accelerate the transition toward more sustainable and climate resilient cities. This has been investigated through 50 snap-shots and 16 in-depth case studies in the Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST) project. This talk and seminar presents a study that explores the role of urban governments in facilitating ULL as a form of experimental governance. The framework for analysis draws on literature on the governance of sustainability transitions, municipal governance and institutional theory. It emphasizes actor roles in governance focusing on perceived and actual acting space. Three functional roles for the municipality are singled out: promoter, enabler andpartner.

What: Seminar on Municipalities in Urban Living Labs
Who: Annica Kronsell and Chris Ryan from the GUST project
When: Thursday 23 March 2017
Where: Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne

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About GUST

European cities face a pressing challenge – how to provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. Funded by JPI Urban Europe, the aim of the GUST project is to examine, inform and advance the governance of sustainability transitions through urban living labs, which are proliferating across Europe as a means for testing innovations in buildings, transport and energy systems. Despite the experimentation taking place on the ground, there is a lack of systematic learning across urban and national contexts.