ABSTRACT
Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development? Are cities the right starting points for implementing sustainability policies? If so, what are the implications for city management? This book reflects the situation of cities in the context of global change and increasing demands for sustainable development.
The book introduces core findings, new methods, and international experience related to sustainability innovations and the social transformation of cities, synthesizing insights from megacity research, sustainability science, and urban planning. Written by a team of more than fifty leading researchers and practitioners from all five continents, it traces general urban transformations and introduces new approaches such as: smart growth strategies; cross-sectoral, transdisciplinary urban transition management; rubanisation; and city syntegration. The book reveals the potential of new, networked agencies of sustainability transformation, and discusses the role of science institutions in the diffusion and implementation of institutional and social innovations.
This comprehensive book is of immense value to students, researchers, and professionals working on issues of sustainable development, in environmental programs in human geography, planning and the built environment, sociology and policy studies, institutional economics, and environmental politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|91 pages
Social innovations for sustainability
chapter 1|19 pages
HES-based transdisciplinary case studies
chapter 3|15 pages
Participatory budgeting and urban sustainability
part 2|99 pages
Urban transformations
chapter 7|13 pages
The social dimensions of urban transformation
chapter 11|13 pages
Urban development, climate change, and associated risks in Ho Chi Minh City
chapter 12|21 pages
Mumbai, the megacity and the global city
part 3|87 pages
Urban transition management – from an institutionalized perspective
chapter 14|12 pages
Cross-national urban sustainability learning
chapter 17|10 pages
“Sustainability is self-evident in high quality planning”
part 4|90 pages
The (new) role of science