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Environment Policy | Land Use and Environmental Planning | Social and Cultural Geography | Urban and Regional Planning | Environmental Management | Human Geography
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Environmentally Sustainable Commercial Services and Tourism not elsewhere classified | Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards not elsewhere classified | Urban Planning |
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Publications
Urban living labs: governing urban sustainability transitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Navigating Transformations Under Climate Change in Cities: Features and Lock-ins of Urban Climate Governance
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Introduction to the special section: Infrastructures and transitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2010
Transformative epistemologies for regenerative tourism: towards a decolonial paradigm in science and practice?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2023
Transitions: Two steps from theory to policy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2009
Capacities for Transformative Climate Governance in New York City
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Benefits/issues in a blended learning course for a Year 10/11 Economics course
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2012
Transforming Urban Water Governance in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Mapping transition potential with stakeholder- and policy-driven scenarios in Rotterdam City
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Operationalising Transition Management for Navigating High-End Climate Futures
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Framing a crisis: exceptional democracy in Dutch infrastructure governance
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-07-2015
Transformative Climate Governance
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Understanding high-end climate change: from impacts to co-creating integrated and transformative solutions
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-02-2019
Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-04-2019
A transition scenario for leapfrogging to a sustainable urban water future in Port Vila, Vanuatu
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Introductory editorial
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2012
Co-producing urban sustainability transitions knowledge with community, policy and science
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Governing societal transitions to sustainability
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2012
Metropolitan governance in action? Learning from metropolitan Melbourne’s urban forest strategy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-03-2020
Moving From Faith Development to Faith Engagement in Christian Schools: A Scoping Review
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-09-2023
Nature-Based Solutions for Resilient and Thriving Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Planning Future Cities
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Unveiling Distribution, Hydrogeochemical Behavior and Environmental Risk of Chromium in Tannery Wastewater
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 18-01-2023
DOI: 10.3390/W15030391
Abstract: Chromium (Cr)-contaminated tannery wastewater is a major environmental concern, especially in developing countries, such as Pakistan, due to its use for crop irrigation, resulting in food-chain contamination and health issues. In this study, we explored the distribution, speciation, hydrogeochemical behavior and environmental risks of Cr in tannery wastewater collected from various tanneries of Kasur district in Punjab, Pakistan. Tannery wastewater s les were taken during the summer (TWW-summer n = 82) and winter (TWW-winter n = 82) seasons. The results showed that high Cr concentration was observed in TWW-winter (mean: 49 ± 32 mg L−1) compared to TWW-summer (mean: 15 ± 21 mg L−1). In TWW-summer and TWW-winter s les, the Cr concentration exceeded the National Environmental Quality Standard (1 mg L−1), with the total Cr ranging from 2.8 to 125 mg L−1. Hexavalent Cr (Cr(VI)) and trivalent Cr (Cr(III)) concentrations spanned 2.7 to 2.9 and 12.4 to 46 mg L−1, respectively. The Piper plot showed that hydrogeochemistry of wastewater was dominated by Ca-Mg-SO4 and Ca-Mg-Cl type water, and geochemical modeling indicated that the presence of Cr-iron (Fe)-bearing mineral phases—notably, FeCr2O4, MgCr2O4 and Cr(OH)3) may control the fate of Cr in the tannery wastewater. Environmental risk assessment modeling categorized the tannery wastewater as the ‘worst quality’, which is not fit for use in crop irrigation without treatment. This study highlights that immediate monitoring, remediation and mitigation strategies are required to reduce the risk of Cr exposure from tannery wastewater in many areas of Pakistan.
Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-04-2018
Resilience of and through urban ecosystem services
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2015
Nature-based solutions for sustainable, resilient, and equitable cities
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 08-08-2023
The uptake of the ecosystem services concept in planning discourses of European and American cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2015
Citizens’ voice: A case study about perceived ecosystem services by urban park users in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2015
A framework for assessing and implementing the co-benefits of nature-based solutions in urban areas
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Advancing the use of scenarios to understand society’s capacity to achieve the 1.5 degree target
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2019
Urban living laboratories: Conducting the experimental city?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-08-2018
Abstract: The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demonstration projects, transition management processes to grassroots innovations – but also an increasing sensibility amongst the research community that urban interventions can be considered in experimental terms. Yet as research has progressed, it has become clear that experimentation is not a singular phenomenon that can be readily understood using any one conceptual entry point. In this paper, we focus on one particular mode of experimentation – the urban living laboratory (ULL) – and develop a typology through which to undertake a comparative analysis of 40 European ULLs, to understand how and why such forms of experimentation are being designed and implemented, and to identify the particular forms of experimentation they entail. We argue that there are distinct types of ULL taking shape, delimited by the ways in which they are designed and deployed through, on the one hand, specific kinds of configuration and practice and, on the other hand, by the ways in which they take laboratory form: the different dispositions towards the laboratory they entail. We propose three ‘ideal’ ULL types – strategic, civic and organic – and argue that these can be placed along the spectrum of four dispositions: trial, enclave, demonstration and platform.
Concluding editorial: Sustainability transitions and their governance: lessons and next-step challenges
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2012
Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Organising a Safe Space for Navigating Social-Ecological Transformations to Sustainability
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 28-05-2015
Transformative spaces in the making: key lessons from nine cases in the Global South
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-11-2019
DOI: 10.1007/S11625-019-00749-X
Abstract: Creating a just and sustainable planet will require not only small changes, but also systemic transformations in how humans relate to the planet and to each other, i.e., social–ecological transformations. We suggest there is a need for collaborative environments where experimentation with new configurations of social–ecological systems can occur, and we refer to these as transformative spaces. In this paper, we seek a better understanding of how to design and enable the creation of transformative spaces in a development context. We analyse nine case studies from a previous special issue on Designing Transformative Spaces that aimed to collect ex les of cutting-edge action-oriented research on transformations from the Global South. The analysis showed five design phases as being essential: Problem Definition Phase Operationalisation Phase Tactical Phase Outcome Phase and Reflection Phase. From this synthesis, we distilled five key messages that should be considered when designing research, including: (a) there are ethical dilemmas associated with creating a transformative space in a system (b) it is important to assess the readiness of the system for change before engaging in it (c) there is a need to balance between ‘safe’ and ‘safe-enough’ spaces for transformation (d) convening a transformative space requires an assemblage of erse methodological frameworks and tools and (e) transformative spaces can act as a starting point for institutionalising transformative change. Many researchers are now engaging in transdisciplinary transformations research, and are finding themselves at the knowledge–action interface contributing to transformative space-making. We hope that by analysing experiences from across different geographies we can contribute towards better understanding of how to navigate the processes needed for the urgent global transformations that are being called for to create a more equitable and sustainable planet Earth.
Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-05-2020
Infrastructures in transition role and response of infrastructures in societal transitions
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2008
Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship: exploring the potential for small business innovation on urban sustainability transitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Urban living labs as inter-boundary spaces for sustainability transitions?
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-06-2020
A Transformative Perspective on Climate Change and Climate Governance
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-03-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S42949-021-00024-Y
Abstract: Urban social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) are dynamic and respond to climate pressures. Change involves alterations to land and resource management, social organization, infrastructure, and design. Research often focuses on how climate change impacts urban SETS or on the characteristics of urban SETS that promote climate resilience. Yet passive approaches to urban climate change adaptation may disregard active SETS change by urban residents, planners, and policymakers that could be opportunities for adaptation. Here, we use evidence of urban social, ecological, and technological change to address how SETS change opens windows of opportunity to improve climate change adaptation.
Impact of Postgraduate Qualifications on the Career Progression of Middle Leaders in Schools
Publisher: Universitas Negeri Gorontalo
Date: 09-2021
DOI: 10.37905/AKSARA.7.3.781-794.2021
Abstract: With a highly competitive higher education market in Australia, there is a significant push for professionals to obtain further qualifications. While much has been written on the progression to Principalship in schools, there is a paucity of writing on the progression into Middle Leadership. A survey of middle leaders in Australian schools indicate that the skills learned in postgraduate qualifications are highly valued by people entering Middle Leadership, however, no impact is recorded in relation to progression into further leadership roles. This research has the potential to influence the career decision making of school teachers and leaders, as well as influence the marketing of postgraduate qualifications by higher education providers.
Peak-Load Management in Commercial Systems with Electric Vehicles
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 06-2019
Co-producing transformative visions for Europe in 2100: A multi-scale approach to orientate transformations under climate change
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Connecting Long and Short-term via Envisioning in Transition Arenas
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-02-2016
Accelerating Transition Dynamics in City Regions: A Qualitative Modeling Perspective
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 18-07-2017
DOI: 10.3390/SU9071254
Urban Transition Labs: co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2013
Examining the policy needs for implementing nature-based solutions in cities: Findings from city-wide transdisciplinary experiences in Glasgow (UK), Genk (Belgium) and Poznań (Poland)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2020
Governance of nature-based solutions through intermediaries for urban transitions – A case study from Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Conclusions: Bridging and Weaving Science and Policy Knowledges for a Research Agenda to Transform Climate Governance
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Agency Capacities to Implement Transition Pathways Under High-End Scenarios
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Capacities in High-End Scenarios in Europe: An Agency Perspective
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
A Research Agenda for the Future of Urban Water Management: Exploring the Potential of Nongrid, Small-Grid, and Hybrid Solutions
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 04-2020
Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 29-05-2019
Nature-based solutions for circular urban water systems: A scoping literature review and a proposal for urban design and planning
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2023
A computer-assisted proof of the existence of solutions to a boundary value problem with an integral boundary condition
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2011
Developing Transformative and Orchestrating Capacities for Climate Governance Experimentation in Rotterdam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2018
Social-Ecological Systems Governance: From Paradigm to Management Approach
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 03-2010
Abstract: This article presents the reframing of flood management practices in the light of social-ecological systems governance. It presents an exploratory theoretical analysis of social-ecological systems (SES) governance complemented by insights from case study analysis. It identifies a mismatch between the goals of the underlying ecosystem paradigms and their manifestation in management practice. The Polder Altenheim case study is an illustration of the consequences of flood management practices that do not match their underlying paradigm. The article recommends two institutional arrangements that will allow institutions to increase their capacity to co-evolve with SES dynamics: (a) institutional arrangements to ensure and enable openness in actor participation, and (b) institutional arrangements to enable updating of the management practices in response to SES dynamics.
Traps! An introduction to expanding thinking on persistent maladaptive states in pursuit of resilience
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-10-2016
A Transition Research Perspective on Governance for Sustainability
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2011
Creating a National Urban Research and Development Platform for Advancing Urban Experimentation
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 27-11-0001
DOI: 10.3390/SU13020530
Abstract: Transformative changes are required for a 21st century sustainable urban development transition involving multiple interconnected domains of energy, water, transport, waste, and housing. This will necessitate a step change in performance goals and tangible solutions. Regenerative urban development has emerged as a major pathway, together with decarbonisation, climate adaptation involving new blue-green infrastructures, and transition to a new green, circular economy. These grand challenges are all unlikely to be realised with current urban planning and governance systems within a time frame that can mitigate environmental, economic, and social disruption. A new national platform for urban innovation has been envisaged and implemented in Australia that is capable of enabling engagement of multiple stakeholders across government, industry, and community as well as real time synchronous collaboration, visioning, research synthesis, experimentation, and decision-making. It targets large strategic metropolitan, mission-scale transition challenges as well as more tactical neighbourhood-scale projects. This paper introduces the iHUB: National Urban Research and Development Platform, its underlying concepts, and multiple layers of technical (IT/AV), software/analytical, data, and engagement, as envisioned and implemented in Australia’s four largest capital cities and five collaborating foundation universities.
Positive tipping points in a rapidly warming world
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Seven lessons for planning nature-based solutions in cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Urban sustainability science: prospects for innovations through a system’s perspective, relational and transformations’ approaches
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-03-2021
Low-carbon built environments and cardiometabolic health: a systematic review of Australian studies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-05-2022
Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities: A systematic literature review and a proposal for facilitating urban transitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Bridging Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) and Transition Management (TM) to improve strategic planning for sustainable development
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2020
Priorities for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions in Australian cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Designing transformative spaces for sustainability in social-ecological systems
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2018
Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
The evaluation of bacterial-augmented floating treatment wetlands for concomitant removal of phenol and chromium from contaminated water
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-07-2023
An integrated process for planning, delivery, and stewardship of urban nature-based solutions: The Connecting Nature Framework
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Sense of place and experimentation in urban sustainability transitions: the Resilience Lab in Carnisse, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-04-2018
Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability: Prevailing Epistemologies and an Emerging Research Agenda
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 04-02-2016
DOI: 10.3390/SU8020144
Environmental impacts from the solar energy technologies
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2005
Greening cities – To be socially inclusive? About the alleged paradox of society and ecology in cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
A Transformative Vision Unlocks the Innovative Potential of Aberdeen City, UK
Publisher: Springer Japan
Date: 2016
The enabling institutional context for integrated water management: Lessons from Melbourne
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.WATRES.2013.09.045
Abstract: There is widespread international acceptance that climate change, demographic shifts and resource limitations impact on the performance of water servicing in cities. In response to these challenges, many scholars propose that a fundamental move away from traditional centralised infrastructure towards more integrated water management is required. However, there is limited practical or scholarly understanding of how to enable this change in practice and few modern cities have done so successfully. This paper addresses this gap by analysing empirical evidence of Melbourne's recent experience in shifting towards a hybrid of centralised and decentralised infrastructure to draw lessons about the institutional context that enabled this shift. The research was based on a qualitative single-case study, involving interviews and envisioning workshops with urban water practitioners who have been directly involved in Melbourne's water system changes. It was found that significant changes occurred in the cultural-cognitive, normative and regulative dimensions of Melbourne's water system. These included a shift in cultural beliefs for the water profession, new knowledge through evidence and learning, additional water servicing goals and priorities, political leadership, community pressure, better coordinated governance arrangements and strong market mechanisms. The paper synthesises lessons from the case study that, with further development, could form the basis of prescriptive guidance for enabling the shift to new modes of water servicing to support more liveable, sustainable and resilient outcomes for future cities.
Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions: towards an integration of academic development, institutionalization, and stakeholder collaborations
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2012
Principles for urban nature-based solutions
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-01-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S13280-021-01685-W
Abstract: Nature-based solutions (NBS) were introduced as integrated, multifunctional and multi-beneficial solutions to a wide array of socio-ecological challenges. Although principles for a common understanding and implementation of NBS were already developed on a landscape scale, specific principles are needed with regard to an application in urban areas. Urban areas come with particular challenges including (i) spatial conflicts with urban system nestedness, (ii) specific urban bio ersity, fragmentation and altered environments, (iii) value plurality, multi-actor interdependencies and environmental injustices, (iv) path-dependencies with cultural and planning legacies and (v) a potential misconception of cities as being artificial landscapes disconnected from nature. Given these challenges, in this perspective paper, we build upon and integrate knowledge from the most recent academic work on NBS in urban areas and introduce five distinct, integrated principles for urban NBS design, planning and implementation. Our five principles should help to transcend governance gaps and advance the scientific discourse of urban NBS towards a more effective and sustainable urban development. To contribute to resilient urban futures, the design, planning, policy and governance of NBS should (1) consider the need for a systemic understanding, (2) contribute to benefiting people and bio ersity, (3) contribute to inclusive solutions for the long-term, (4) consider context conditions and (5) foster communication and learning.
Sustainability Transitions Research: Transforming Science and Practice for Societal Change
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Date: 17-10-2017
DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV-ENVIRON-102014-021340
Abstract: The article describes the field of sustainability transitions research, which emerged in the past two decades in the context of a growing scientific and public interest in large-scale societal transformation toward sustainability. We describe how different scientific approaches and methodological positions explore erse types of transitions and provide the basis for multiple theories and models for governance of sustainability transitions. We distinguish three perspectives in studying transitions: socio-technical, socio-institutional, and socio-ecological. Although the field as a whole is very heterogeneous, commonalities can be characterized in notions such as path dependencies, regimes, niches, experiments, and governance. These more generic concepts have been adopted within the analytical perspective of transitions, which has led three different types of approaches to dealing with agency in transitions: analytical, evaluative, and experimental. The field has by now produced a broad theoretical and empirical basis along with a variety of social transformation strategies and instruments, impacting disciplinary scientific fields as well as (policy) practice. In this article, we try to characterize the field by identifying its main perspectives, approaches and shared concepts, and its relevance to real-world sustainability problems and solutions.
The next wave of sustainability transitions: Elucidating and invigorating transformations in the welfare state
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Evaluating Jakarta's flood defence governance: the impact of political and institutional reforms
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Date: 05-04-2012
DOI: 10.2166/WP.2012.119
Abstract: Flood defence management in Jakarta is a critical governmental activity, since Jakarta is a low-lying delta metropolis. Its protection against flooding is crucial for the continuing of economic activities. Despite the urgent need for action, the implementation of flood defences like the Eastern Flood Canal has been a lengthy and strenuous process. The first plans to construct the Canal date back to the early 1970s and gained support early during the policy design process but the actual construction only started in 2003 after institutional and political changes. Earlier evaluations point to a lack of financial resources as a cause of delayed implementation. We have explored the causes beyond budgetary reasons, and have used Kingdon's streams model to structure the policy design and implementation process, and to analyze the co-evolution of politics (the political stream), policies (the solutions stream) and social-ecological context (the problem stream). We have paid due attention to the effects of decentralization and the realized political reforms. Our research has revealed three causes for the implementation delay: (a) the disconnection of political and institutional developments for problems and solutions before 1998 (b) institutional misalignment between municipal and ministerial authorities and (c) an absence of critical actors in the policy process despite their control of financial and administrative resources. Implementation was only feasible when political and institutional developments coincided.
Discursive regime dynamics in the Dutch energy transition
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Stewardship of the Biosphere in the Urban Era
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2013
Accelerating a green recovery of cities: Lessons from a scoping review and a proposal for mission-oriented recovery towards post-pandemic urban resilience
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-03-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S13280-022-01725-Z
Abstract: Australia is experiencing mounting pressures related to processes of urbanisation, bio ersity loss and climate change felt at large in cities. At the same time, it is cities that can take the leading role in pioneering approaches and solutions to respond to those coupling emergencies. In this perspective piece we respond to the following question: What are the required transformations for prioritising, valuing, maintaining and embracing nature in cities in Australia? We adopt the mission framework as an organising framework to present proposed pathways to transform Australian cities as nature-positive places of the future. We propose three interconnected pathways as starting actions to steer urban planning, policy and governance in Australian cities: First, cities need to establish evidence-based planning for nature in cities and mainstream new planning tools that safeguard and foreground urban nature. Second, collaborative planning needs to become a standard practice in cities and inclusive governance for nature in cities needs to prioritise Aboriginal knowledge systems and practices as well as look beyond what local governments can do. Third, for progressing to nature-positive cities, it is paramount to empower communities to innovate with nature across Australian cities. Whilst we focus on Australian cities, the lessons and pathways are broadly applicably globally and can inspire science-policy debates for the post COP15 bio ersity and COP26 climate change implementation processes.
Sustainable energy planning by using multi-criteria analysis application in the island of Crete
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2009
Governance for the Environment, New Perspectives
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2010
Transition Management for Local Sustainability: A Case Study from La Botija Protected Area, San Marcos de Colón, Honduras
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
The Dynamics of Urban Ecosystem Governance in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-04-2014
Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-08-2018
Collaborative Modeling Lab to Increase Learning Engagement; Comparing Manual modeling with Interactive Whiteboards
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2009
Odor Control in Evaporation Ponds Treating Olive Mill Wastewater Through the Use of Ca(OH)2
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2003
Abstract: Different amounts of Ca(OH)2 were added in 2 L beakers containing 1 L of olive mill wastewater (OMW). The mixture was stirred for 45 min and left to settle. Wastewater analysis was used in order to determine the effect of the different amounts of calcium hydroxide in the treating process, three days after the application. The Odor Detection Threshold was used for determining the effect of the treatment in the odors produced in the beakers, three and 30 days after. Both sets of measurements indicated an important reduction in wastewater pollutants and odor emission when 10 g/L of Ca(OH)2 were added. In order to evaluate these results in more realistic conditions. 10 L plastic containers were filled with 6 L of OMW, relevant amounts of Ca(OH)2 were added, the mixture was stirred manually and left to settle in the open. Again, 10 g/L of calcium hydroxide produced the best results in odor reduction and wastewater treatment.
Drifting between transitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Shifting paradigms, changing waters: Transitioning to integrated urban water management in the coastal city of Dunedin, USA
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Editorial overview: System dynamics and sustainability: Urban transitions to sustainability and resilience
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Towards governing infrasystem transitions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2010
Greening the state? The framing of sustainability in Dutch infrastructure governance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Mapping social-ecological injustice in Melbourne, Australia: An innovative systematic methodology for planning just cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
Designing a knowledge co-production operating space for urban environmental governance—Lessons from Rotterdam, Netherlands and Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2016
Cities, systems and sustainability: status and perspectives of research on urban transformations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Elucidating the Potential of Vertical Flow-Constructed Wetlands Vegetated with Different Wetland Plant Species for the Remediation of Chromium-Contaminated Water
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 26-04-2022
DOI: 10.3390/SU14095230
Abstract: Water scarcity is one of the key global challenges affecting food safety, food security, and human health. Constructed wetlands (CWs) provide a sustainable tool to remediate wastewater. Here we explored the potential of vertical flow-CWs (VF-CWs) vegetated with ten indigenous wetland plant species to treat chromium (Cr)-contaminated water. The wetland plants were vegetated to develop VF-CWs to treat Cr-contaminated water in a batch mode. Results revealed that the Cr removal potential of VF-CWs vegetated with different wetland plants ranged from 47% to 92% at low (15 mg L−1) Cr levels and 36% to 92% at high (30 mg L−1) Cr levels, with the maximum (92%) Cr removal exhibited by VF-CWs vegetated with Leptochloa fusca. Hexavalent Cr (Cr(VI)) was reduced to trivalent Cr (Cr(III)) in treated water (96–99 %) of all VF-CWs. All the wetland plants accumulated Cr in the shoot (1.9–34 mg kg−1 dry weight (DW)), although Cr content was higher in the roots (74–698 mg kg−1 DW) than in the shoots. Brachiaria mutica showed the highest Cr accumulation in the roots and shoots (698 and 45 mg kg−1 DW, respectively), followed by Leptochloa fusca. The high Cr level significantly (p 0.05) decreased the stress tolerance index (STI) percentage of the plant species. Our data provide strong evidence to support the application of VF-CWs vegetated with different indigenous wetland plants as a sustainable Cr-contaminated water treatment technology such as tannery wastewater.
Osallisuus turvaa hakevan reunaehdoissa
Publisher: Aikuiskasvatus
Date: 17-12-2019
DOI: 10.33336/AIK.88118
Abstract: Artikkelissa käsitellään neljän hätämajoitusyksikössä asuvan nuoren turvapaikanhakijamiehen kokemuksia osallisuudesta omassa arjessaan. Tulosten perusteella osallisuus muotoutuu suhteessa tulevaisuuskuvaan, läheissuhteisiin, mahdollisuuksiin vaikuttaa omaan välittömään ja laajempaan ympäristöön, kohtaamisiin suomalaisten kanssa ja kokemuksiin omasta merkityksestä. Läpileikkaava teema osallisuutta parantavana tekijänä on tunne turvallisuudesta, johon kaikki osallisuuden tekijät palautuvat. Hätämajoitusyksikön välitilassa elävän, poliittista osallisuutta odottelevan turvapaikanhakijan ihmisarvoista elämää sekä toivoa tulevasta pitävät yllä sosiaalinen osallisuus, luottamukselliset suhteet ja turvallisuus.
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
The potential of nature-based solutions to deliver ecologically just cities: Lessons for research and urban planning from a systematic literature review.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-04-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S13280-021-01553-7
Abstract: Planning for and implementing multifunctional nature-based solutions can improve urban ecosystems' adaptation to climate change, foster urban resilience, and enable social and environmental innovation. There is, however, a knowledge gap in how to design and plan nature-based solutions in a nonanthropocentric manner that enhances co-benefits for humans and nonhuman living organisms. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review to explore how an ecological justice perspective can advance the understanding of nature-based solutions. We argue that ecological justice, which builds on the equitable distribution of environmental goods and bads, social-ecological interconnectedness, nature's agency and capabilities, and participation and inclusion in decision-making, provides a transformative framework for rethinking nature-based solutions in and for cities. A qualitative analysis of 121 peer-reviewed records shows a highly human-centred worldview for delivering nature-based solutions and a relationship to social justice with no direct reference to the dimensions of ecological justice. There is, however, an underlying recognition of the importance of nonhumans, ecosystem integrity and well-being, and a need to consider their needs and capacities through multispecies nature-based solutions design and planning. We conclude with a discussion of the critical aspects for designing and planning ecologically just cities through nature-based solutions and future research directions to further integrate these fields.
Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-11-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S13280-021-01653-4
Abstract: Cities can set in motion sustainability transitions through experimentation and innovation. To invest in and mainstream solutions that contribute to urban transformation agendas, urban planners needs to understand which innovations have transformational potential as well as how these innovations can accelerate sustainability transitions. In order to explore this, existing frameworks of transformative capacity provide the guidance, but they are generic, abstract, and challenging to apply for urban planning. As part of our effort to develop a more operational version of the transformative capacity framework by Wolfram (2016), we conducted a systematic scoping review of the academic literature to determine the characteristics of people-based and nature-based low-carbon innovations that constitutes their transformative capacity. After reviewing 65 records, we identified dimensions indicating each of the transformative capacity components through analysis and synthesis. Besides contributing to the science-policy interface through a knowledge synthesis on low-carbon people-based and nature-based innovations, this paper examines bridging frameworks to inform urban planners in developing practical solutions and actionable elements for low-carbon urban futures.
Transformative roles in tourism: adopting living systems' thinking for regenerative futures
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-05-2022
Abstract: The “tourism living systems” (Tourism Living System – TLS) concept is underdeveloped, with limited relevant theoretical analysis to understand how it can support the transformations of tourism systems towards healthy communities and places. This paper aims to conceptualise TLSs and key stakeholder roles for enacting regenerative tourism using a living systems perspective. Knowledge synthesis and co-production were used to identify the conceptual framework and its applications. Knowledge synthesis was undertaken through a scoping review of the regenerative tourism literature and supplemented by a consultation exercise with leading regenerative tourism practitioners. Co-production of knowledge involved case study research to assess the conceptual framework's practical applications and revise it with regenerative tourism practitioners. The study revealed that regenerative tourism is informed by living systems' thinking. The authors identify five erse, interdependent and interconnected stakeholder roles from the case studies and scoping review. All stakeholder roles are vital for constituting tourism systems that contribute to the healthy evolution of social-ecological systems. Real-world case study applications of the TLS framework will guide tourism stakeholders who seek to adopt regenerative tourism approaches. The study contributes to developing new frontiers in tourism stakeholder roles and paradigms with implications for regenerative tourism futures. The TLS framework challenges industrial conceptions of tourism by proposing a shift in stakeholder roles from extraction to generating new life to survive, thrive and evolve.
The Acceleration of Urban Sustainability Transitions: A Comparison of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk, and Stockholm
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 27-02-2018
DOI: 10.3390/SU10030612
Enhanced Degradation of Ciprofloxacin in Floating Treatment Wetlands Augmented with Bacterial Cells Immobilized on Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 13-11-2022
DOI: 10.3390/SU142214997
Abstract: Antibiotic contamination of water is an emerging global issue with severe implications for both public health and the environment. Ciprofloxacin (CIP) is a synthetic fluoroquinolone antibiotic, which is broadly used in human and veterinary medicines around the world to treat various bacterial infections. The presence of CIP in the aquatic environment poses serious health problems to human beings and other living entities. Floating treatment wetland (FTW) is a low-cost and eco-friendly wastewater remediation technology. In the current study, the Canna indica. (Indian shot) was vegetated in a floatable mat to develop FTWs. A consortium of three bacterial strains, Acinetobacter lwoffii ACRH76, Bacillus pumulis C2A1, and Acinetobacter sp. HN3, was immobilized on iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe3O4-NPs) and augmented in the FTWs for the remediation of CIP-contaminated (100 mg/L) water. The augmentation of bacteria (immobilized or free) in the FTWs significantly enhanced the removal of CIP from water. The maximum reduction in CIP (98%), chemical oxygen demand (COD 90%), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD 93%) and total organic carbon (TOC 95%) was observed in FTWs that had Fe3O4-NP supported bacteria. This study reveals that FTWs have a great potential to remove the CIP from contaminated water, albeit its CIP removal efficiency was substantially enhanced by augmentation with Fe3O4-NPs supported bacteria.
Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes: Practical Applications and Governance Implications
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-04-2014
Urban Sustainability Transitions
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-06-2017
The Multiple Roles of ICLEI: Intermediating to Innovate Urban Biodiversity Governance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-02-2021
DOI: 10.1186/S42854-021-00019-Z
Abstract: The narrative of ‘urban transformations’ epitomises the hope that cities provide rich opportunities for contributing to local and global sustainability and resilience. Urban transformation research is developing a rich yet consistent research agenda, offering opportunities for integrating multiple perspectives and disciplines concerned with radical change towards desirable urban systems. We outline three perspectives on urban transformations in , of and by cities as a structuring approach for integrating knowledge about urban transformations. We illustrate how each perspective helps detangle different questions about urban transformations while also raising awareness about their limitations. Each perspective brings distinct insights about urban transformations to ultimately support research and practice on transformations for sustainability and resilience. Future research should endeavour to bridge across the three perspectives to address their respective limitations.
Transitions through a lens of urban water
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Identifying principles for the design of robust impact evaluation frameworks for nature-based solutions in cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Urban experimentation & sustainability transitions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-10-2018
Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-03-2022
Advancing urban environmental governance: Understanding theories, practices and processes shaping urban sustainability and resilience
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2016
Outliers or Frontrunners? Exploring the (Self-) Governance of Community- Owned Sustainable Energy in Scotland and the Netherlands
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 2013
Urban agriculture as a nature-based solution to address socio-ecological challenges in Australian cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
Nature-based solutions for changing urban landscapes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Moving towards systemic change? Investigating acceleration dynamics of urban sustainability transitions in the Belgian City of Genk
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Moving forward or slowing-down? Exploring what impedes the Hellenic energy transition to a sustainable future
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2013
Benefits/issues in a blended learning course for a Year 10/11 Economics course
Publisher: Global Science Technology Forum
Date: 17-09-2012
Senses of injustices-in-place: nature’s voice through Melbourne’s environmental stewards
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-06-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S11625-023-01355-8
Abstract: Ecological injustices are systemic acts and processes of misrepresentation, misrecognition, maldistribution of impacts, and destruction of fundamental capabilities, to both human and nonhuman living beings. Unpacking these context-specific injustices requires in-depth explorations of people and their experiences, perceptions, types of knowledge, actions, and relations to, for, and with nonhuman beings and their capacities. To explore these injustices-in-place, we used embedded case studies within Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, and examined the data with the self–others–environment sense of place framework to uncover people’s understandings of ecological (in)justices. The findings reveal a sense of disempowerment, conflated by unrecognized environmental work, a disconnect between different groups and levels of society, and the anonymity of the nonhuman others. Through a contested self–others–environment lens, place meanings in the study sites show different ways of valuing nature, which is conveyed in the types of actions, stewardship behaviors, and attachment to place. This analysis introduces a new concept of ‘ecological injustice’ that bridges the sense of place and justice by visibilizing the senses of anonymity, collectivity, reciprocal nurturing, and contestation that unfold across human–nonhuman interactions. We discuss strategies to prevent and restore ecological injustices, which include building capacity through knowledge exchange, improved funding and governance mechanisms, raising social–ecological awareness, and finding ways to populate our cities with environmental stewards that can help to deanonymize and make the needs of the nonhuman others visible.
The role of partnerships in ‘realising’ urban sustainability in Rotterdam's City Ports Area, The Netherlands
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
How City‐networks are Shaping and Failing Innovations in Urban Institutions for Sustainability and Resilience
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2019
Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 11-01-2018
DOI: 10.3390/SU10010161
Governance of and with nature-based solutions in cities
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 08-08-2023
Cities should respond to the biodiversity extinction crisis
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-02-2021
Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-10-2021
Capacities for urban transformations governance and the case of New York City
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2019
Towards mainstreaming nature-based solutions for achieving biodiverse, resilient, and inclusive cities
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 08-08-2023
Rapid Review on Career Adviser Resourcing in NSW Schools
Publisher: Australian Government
Date: 2022
Sketching Future Research Directions for Transition Management Applications in Cities
Publisher: Springer Japan
Date: 2016
Space for mainstreaming? Learning from the implementation of urban forest strategies in metropolitan Melbourne
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-10-2023
Planning Ecologically Just Cities: A Framework to Assess Ecological Injustice Hotspots for Targeted Urban Design and Planning of Nature-Based Solutions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2022
Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Transition pathways to sustainability in greater than 2 °C climate futures of Europe
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-02-2019
Starting Up Transition Management: A Closer View on the Systems Analysis and How It Initiated Transformative Thinking in Ghent and Aberdeen Cities
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Transition Management: Guiding Principles and Applications
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Mismatches between ecosystem services supply and demand in urban areas: A quantitative assessment in five European cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2015
Introducing Sustainability Transitions’ Thinking in Urban Contexts
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
A strategic program for transitioning to a Water Sensitive City
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Understanding the Urban Context and Its Challenges
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Transition Management in and for Cities: Introducing a New Governance Approach to Address Urban Challenges
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
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