Metagoverning the Co-Creation of Green Transitions: A Socio-Political Contingency Framework

Jacob Torfing (), Christopher Ansell and Eva Sørensen
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Jacob Torfing: Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Christopher Ansell: Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Eva Sørensen: Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 16, 1-21

Abstract: While the planet Earth will survive the accelerating climate and nature crisis, humankind may not. As part of its work to halt the global climate and nature crisis, while generating a distributed prosperity, the United Nations has unanimously agreed on sustainable development goals. The achievement of these goals depends on the mobilization of local knowledge and resources, and the creation of a sense of joint ownership over new and bold solutions. Co-creation that brings together relevant and affected actors in emergent processes of collaboration, learning, and innovation offer a path to localized green transitions. However, little is known about how public governance can prompt, support, and scaffold the local co-creation of green solutions. Bridging extant literatures in the field of collaborative and networked governance, this theory-building article aims to identify a number of governance factors conducive for the local co-creation of green transitions. The resulting theoretical framework allows us to conjecture about which governance factors will be critical in different socio-political contexts, thus facilitating future studies of contrasted governance paths to local green co-creation.

Keywords: sustainability; co-creation; governance factors; green solutions; regimes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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