Challenges in the Transition Towards a Sustainable City: The Case of GO2Zero

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

G. Bekebrede Organisation & Governance - TPM
Ellen van Bueren Urban Development Management - Architecture and the Built Environment
I. Wenzler Urban Development Management - Architecture and the Built Environment
A.J. van Veen Organisation & Governance - TPM
Research Group
Organisation & Governance (TPM) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2018 G. Bekebrede, Ellen van Bueren, I. Wenzler, A.J. van Veen
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91902-7_7
Sustainability CO2 emissions Simulation game Table top game
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Technology, Policy and Management

Department

Multi Actor Systems

Research Group

Organisation & Governance

Abstract

Cities face a challenging task in reducing CO2 emissions. Multiple technical solutions on district level as well as household level are available; multiple stakeholders with different values and possibilities to intervene are involved; and their actions highly influence the performance. To get a better understanding of these complexities and to contribute to a community-based transition process towards a CO2 city, a simulation game was developed. This game, GO2Zero, represents an abstract district that is challenged to reduce the CO2 emission to zero. Multiple stakeholders take actions, observe the challenges, and deal with these challenges with the final objective a sustainable district. This paper illustrates the first sessions with this game and show that different strategies of stakeholders lead to different challenges, ways to solve these, and a variety of outcomes.