Learning spaces of policy mobility for sustainable cities and landscapes

This chapter argues that policy mobility, a process where policies and ideas travel across space and time, is an important dimension of the boundary-crossing flows of sustainable development. It presents an account of three learning spaces supporting transnational policy mobility in sustainable cities and landscapes: policy discourse, policy tourism, and policy training, a categorization based on how policy-relevant information is learned by or transmitted to main actors in policymaking. This chapter uses China’s policy learning experiences to illustrate issues and potentials facing policy mobility’s informational infrastructure in the Pacific Rim and relate these to concerns over knowledge production revealed in policy mobility research. It concludes with an examination of a full range of roles for researchers and educators in the learning spaces, highlighting the need to be reflective in their endeavors to cultivate transformative changes.