Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mieg, Harald A.; Töpfer, Klaus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136225604
• Artikelnr.: 38265911

Autorenporträt

Professor Dr. Harald A. Mieg is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), advising on urban research. Professor Dr. Klaus Töpfer is Executive Director of the IASS and former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This book results from research and discussions conducted at the IASS. The IASS is a German government-funded research institute and international hub for sustainability experts from natural and social sciences, politics, technology, and civil society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Social Innovations for Sustainability 1. HES-based
Transdisciplinary Case Studies: The Example of Sustainable Transformation
of Leisure Traffic in the City of Basel 2. Smart Growth ¿ Sustainability
Innovations 3. Participatory Budgeting and Urban Sustainability: Reviewing
Lessons from Latin America 4. Urban Governance and Climate Change
Experiments 5. Rubanisation 6. Resource-Oriented Monitoring of Sustainable
Urban Development Part 2: Urban Transformations 7. The Social Dimensions of
Urban Transformation: Contemporary Diversity in Global North Cities and the
Challenges for Urban Cohesion 8. Privatization, Urban Fragmentation, and
Sustainable Development 9. New Urban Players in Africa and Asia: The Role
of Grassroots Organizations 10. Does Size Matter? A Critical Assessment of
the Mega-city Discourse 11. Urban Development, Climate Change and
Associated Risks in Ho Chi Minh City: Vulnerabilities and Adaptation
Challenges for a Rapidly Growing Megacity 12. Mumbai, the Megacity and the
Global City: A View of the Spatial Dimension of Urban Resilience Part 3:
Urban Transition Management - from an Institutionalized Perspective 13.
Managing Metropolises by Negotiating Urban Growth 14. Cross-national Urban
Sustainability Learning: A Case Study on "Continuous Interaction" in Green
Infrastructure Policies 15. Difu: Case Study: The Idea of Sustainable City
Budgets in Germany 16. Syntegrating City Management 17. Sustainability is
Self-evident in High Quality Planning: The Role of the International Urban
Planner 18. The City as a Customer: Siemens and Sustainable Urban
Infrastructure Part 4: The (New) Role of Science 19. Transdisciplinarity
20. Towards a Socio-metabolic History of Cities 21. Urban
Transdisciplinarity in a National Program for Applied Megacity Research
22. The Institutionalization of Interfaces as a Prerequisite in
Transformations towards Sustainability 23. The Changing Role of the Science
and Technology Policy Advisor in a New Global Context 24. The Role of
Universities in Fostering Urban and Regional Sustainability