Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Board

The international advisory board for the GUST project brings together representatives from academia, industry, philanthrophy, local government associations and environmental organisations.

Carina Borgström-Hansson
WWF

Monika Zimmermann
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Chris Ryan
University of Melbourne

Sarah Burch
University of Waterloo

Anna Brown
Rockefeller Foundation

Thomas Johnsson
EON

James Evans
Manchester University

Vanessa Castán-Broto
University College London

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.