Urban Regions Shifting to Circular Economy: Understanding Challenges for New Ways of Governance

Urban areas account for around 50% of global solid waste generation. In the last decade, the European Union has supported numerous initiatives aiming at reducing waste generation by promoting shifts towards Circular Economy (CE) approaches. Governing this process has become imperative. This article focuses on the results of a governance analysis...

REPAiR: REsource Management in Peri-urban AReas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism: D6.1 Governance and Decision-Making Processes in Pilot Cases

REPAiR will develop, test, and implement strategies for improved urban<br/>metabolisms in six peri-urban living labs (›PULLs‹) in the case study areas of<br/>Amsterdam, Ghent, Hamburg, Łódź, Naples, and Pécs. In the frame of REPAiR a<br/>geodesign decision support environment (GDSE) will be developed and first<br/>tested in the PULLs.<br/>In...