New Urban Transitions towards Sustainability: Addressing SDG Challenges (Research and Implementation Tasks and Topics from the Perspective of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe)

Sigrun Kabisch, Göran Finnveden, Petr Kratochvil, Richard Sendi, Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, Rafaela Matos and Jonas Bylund
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Sigrun Kabisch: Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research–UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Göran Finnveden: Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Petr Kratochvil: Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Richard Sendi: Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marta Smagacz-Poziemska: Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, 31-110 Kraków, Poland
Rafaela Matos: Hydraulics & Environmental Department, National Civil Engineering Laboratory, LNEC, 1700-606 Lisboa, Portugal
Jonas Bylund: IQS–IQ Samhällsbyggnad, 111 51 Stockholm, Sweden

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-10

Abstract: The paper presents the requirements and challenges of urban transitions towards sustainability from the perspective of the SAB of the JPI Urban Europe. Critical reflections on the achievements and identification of gaps in the activities of JPI Urban Europe, based on the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda SRIA (2015–2020), reveal advanced research questions, tasks, and approaches that influenced the development process of the SRIA 2.0 (released in February 2019). The authors emphasize the dilemma approach, the local context and the co-creation concept to pursue urban transitions in real-world context. Considering this frame, they propose specific domains for further research on urban transitions.

Keywords: urban transitions; SDGs; dilemma approach; co-creation; local context; SRIA; research priorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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