Table 2 Overview and brief description of approaches in the Wiki on Just Sustainable Cities
From: Mapping the diversity & transformative potential of approaches to sustainable just cities
Approaches | Description |
|---|---|
Alternative economic indicators which do not assume economic growth as the most important variable to assess a country’s development. | |
Scientific research that involves the general public entirely or in parts. | |
Public, non-violent and conscientious breach of law undertaken with the aim of bringing about a change in laws or government policies. | |
Initiatives and movements that aim to provide affordable, ecological or community housing in both urban and rural contexts. | |
Communities where people aim to live in harmony with each other and with nature. | |
Physical spaces where entrepreneurs, companies and businesses share, among other resources, working areas, networks, and knowledge. | |
Urban agriculture seeks to reduce cities’ ecological footprints by decreasing energy use in food transport while building community resilience (Regenerative Cities). | |
Online activity in which participants voluntarily undertake a task in response to a call or request from any societal actor. | |
Empowering young or disadvantaged people through culture-based solutions. | |
Analysis of digital data (urban realm) in order to increase efficiency, improve decision making and provide real time information for both citizens and the state. | |
Political, economic, and social movement to transition towards a just, participatory, and ecologically sustainable society by downscaling production and consumption. | |
Inclusivity in decision-making and policymaking processes. Diverse participants are convened in diverse ways to include multiple perspectives in urban sustainability efforts. | |
Manufacturing process in which a machine is operated digitally to make a certain product. | |
Technological interventions that can support the transition to a low-carbon society by decreasing fossil fuel use. | |
Social experiments that test ideas, methods and technologies to better address specific (and complex) urban challenges in a contextualized manner. | |
Initiatives that tackle unsustainability and injustice in cities by taking the distribution of resources and the way our economic system is organized as the starting point. | |
Processes that address environmental problems and envision the future of cities based on the co-production of knowledge through innovative partnerships. | |
Governance tools and processes to engage the civil society in policy making processes for urban climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. | |
Assessment methods for diverse topics (e.g. distribution of green amenities) within sustainability and justice in urban areas to mainly help policymakers. | |
Integrated map of evolutionary values that encompasses sub/objective and intersubjective/objective values for researching, planning, and managing change. | |
Approach that facilitates the circulation of ideas, understandings and cutting-edge research between a diverse variety of actors in society. | |
Cost-effective solutions that are inspired and supported by nature and provide environmental, social and economic benefits as well as help build resilience. | |
Nature-based solutions (NBS) that are designed to provide answers to major urban challenges (e.g. flooding and heat stress) while helping biodiversity to flourish | |
Nature-based solutions (NBS) that bring green elements into everyday urban living in the most equitable of ways, so that citizens of all communities have access to them. | |
Approaches to (urban) governance that enable sustainability transformations by connecting multi-sectoral networks with individuals/organizations on-the-ground. | |
Democratic process in which community members decide how to spend part of a public budget. | |
Tool to envision transitions, i.e., how our cities will look like in the future. It develops an action plan on how to get there. | |
Qualitative and quantitative methods, incl. participatory research, case studies, quantitative modeling and socio-technological analyses to reach EU climate goals. | |
Policies and practices for inclusion of disadvantaged groups | Approach that aims to provide all citizens with equal access into urban life and ensure their right to the city. |
Alternative conceptual framings range from the moral right of all those living in cities to contribute to shaping their future, to the practical importance of diverse outlooks, ideas and capabilities in working towards sustainability and justice. | |
Remediation and revitalization of disused urban spaces (e.g. landfills) to improve urban biodiversity and provide additional ecosystem services. | |
The right to housing indicates the right of all individuals to have access to adequate shelter. | |
The right to the city is far more than a right of individual access to the resources that the city embodies: it is a right to make and remake ourselves and our cities. | |
Resources and services that are shared, co-financed and managed through jointly- owned and horizontally/democratically governed enterprises such as cooperatives. | |
Integrative approach to utilize the opportunity of digitalization and new technologies to overcome urban issues. | |
Movements that aspire to make food production and consumption more sustainable, strengthen the local food sector, connect people and raise awareness. | |
Research and policy on environmental benefits of short food supply chains (SFSCs), the role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the various policy levels. | |
Initiatives seeking to the improve energy performance of buildings as a means of lowering carbon emissions to create carbon-neutral habitats, communities and cities. | |
Citizen science approach that uses Living Labs as a vehicle to involve local citizens and create, monitor and promote awareness of pollinator-friendly spaces. | |
Initiatives that provide spaces for experimentation where citizens build community resilience and pioneer alternative environmental, economic and social solutions. | |
Grassroots policy innovation that promotes synergies between local governments and community-led initiatives to create systemic change for sustainability. | |
Restoring and improving the quality of urban life by using arts and cultural heritage (e.g. museums, old industrial sites etc.) to develop (degraded) urban spaces. |