Management van Stedelijke Ontwikkeling

Management van Stedelijke Ontwikkeling: Beleid, sturing en institutionele veranderingen voor duurzame steden

van Bueren, Ellen (TU Delft Urban Development Management)

2019

Cities, as economic and cultural centres in our society, are major consumers of resources. They not only contribute to problems such as climate change, but also experience the risks and consequences thereof. Technological solutions to these problems are difficult to implement. They require larger-scale system changes, or encounter resistance. Making cities sustainable not only requires technical solutions, but also institutional innovation. A socio-technical-ecological system approach to cities shows the coherence and complexity of issues. Issues play on multiple scales, are cross-sectoral, and require an interaction of citizens, companies, and governments. Moreover, the playing field between these groups of actors is changing rapidly, technological empowerment in particular has made the citizen a much more equal player alongside the government and business. Existing instruments and approaches are not sufficient to approach sustainability issues. To identify and address these issues, cooperation between science and society is necessary. Multi- and transdisciplinary learning environments enable researchers and students to identify issues, to answer questions and to try out solutions together with stakeholders. Such environments are indispensable for the development of sustainable cities.

sustainable urban development
governance
institutional innovation
socio-technical-ecological system

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:641aab85-6768-432b-b1a7-1ab0a35419c9

https://doi.org/10.5553/Bk/092733872019029002003

2019-12-31

0927-3387

Bestuurskunde, 28 (2), 15-21

Institutional Repository

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© 2019 Ellen van Bueren